During Bush's term in office, I personally wasn't above emailing a few of my friends an animation I'd run across of W. morphing into Hitler, and I still feel that way. But if one drops all pretense of nuance in the public arena, then all you get is the nutty left battling the nutty right, and woe unto all of us if either one wins. Bush was all for gaining total power, on a credit card yet. Obama wants to make sure all Americans have health coverage, which seems like a bare minimum of returning something to the American people for all of the tax dollars we do spend, while hopefully making the whole project pay for itself. He wouldn't even be trying to do this if the insurance companies weren't doing such a crummy job in the first place. If we don't want the government to do this stuff for us, then we'd better grow up and start pursuing "enlightened" capitalism, entrepreneurship that has a true social conscience, not just the veneer of one, rather than all wishing we could be robber barons like the ones who have tens of millions of dollars and more tucked away.
Which is all to say, I think the Bill Wilson in this article sounds like a nut to me, more interested in winning some ideological battle than in what the actual outcome will be for democracy.
