The 'Everyone else is doing it' canard

The American Thinker ^ | February 10, 2010 | Steve McGregor

[Scanian]

One of the most prevalent arguments used in favor of socialized medicine, revamping the 1993 Eligibility Law for military service, nuclear disarmament, and almost every other leftist issue--is the same argument we caution teenagers against: peer pressure. "Everyone else is doing it, why can't I?" is a phrase that seems to echo from adolescence and, thanks to our current President, throughout politics. I can almost picture Mrs. Soetoro asking the young Barack, during one of his formative four AM lectures, "if everyone else was jumping off a cliff..." In response to that adage, somehow he learned to say, "yes."

During his major Obamacare sales pitch before congress last year, the President whined, "We are the only democracy -- the only advanced democracy on Earth -- the only wealthy nation -- that allows such hardship for millions of its people."

[afraidfortherepublic]

Mrs. Soetero would never have asked that question. She didn’t have a lot of common sense.