Another "first" for Obama may eventually become permanent — how we will become Sweden.

From her interview on Dennis Prager’s radio show broadcast on October 27, 2008:

The bottom line that one can’t get away from . . . we are now about to elect a president, for the first time in our history, who believes, as he as indicated, that we are the moral inferior to most of the rest of the world.

That much I liked.  But I disagree with the optimism she expressed for the country if Obama is elected:

The thought that we must all hold, and very deeply, is that we are a very great country and there is no, no election, and no president, no regime — as they now call democracies — that can possibly undo us, and that’s really quite important to know.

I just don’t think she’s right about that.  The way I see it, a new administration can certainly turn around foreign policy, but domestic policy is another matter.  And changes in the latter will lead to changes in the former.

Sure, we’ll go down a bad road in foreign policy if Obama is elected.  He evaluates good and bad in terms of what the rest of the world thinks or the United Nations thinks instead of in terms of actual good and bad.  (Ironically, people will call this “courageous.”)  But that can be turned around rather quickly by a subsequent administration, even when the career Department of State boneheads are against it.

Domestically, I think we’re screwed.  I’ve explained why before. Entitlements and other big government will never be reversed.  Ever. Tinkered with, maybe, but that’s it.  There will never be a real debate about ending programs.  Instead, the conservative position will simply be how to run them “better.”

And as the American public learns to expect more and more of their personal needs to be taken care of by the government, pretty much anything beyond our borders will be considered someone else’s problem . . . let them solve it.  Whatever we do, we won’t take sides.  Why, that could mean we’ll eventually be drawn into something!  Besides, who are we to say that the country committing genocide for the sake of racial purity is any better than the country trying to stop it?  That question would be, to paraphrase Barack Obama on the question of when life begins, “above our pay grade.”

Well, you ask, why would that be bad?  Hasn’t this worked for Sweden and Spain?  France and Germany?  Why, yes it has.  For one reason: when these countries were creating their socialist utopias, there was still a United States in the world to do the heavy lifting. Who’s going to do it when our country — as we’ve known it since World War II, at least — is gone?