Socialists always believe that the “little people” cannot manage their own lives, because they are too weak, stupid, or capital-deficient to compete with powerful, intelligent, successful people. Some collective entity must live their lives for them; inevitably this is an intrusive State that brooks no rivals. That goal is understood by Obama, et al, but they want to hide it from the stupid and middling people, while co-opting helpful fools. Of course Gruber is within this tradition. His deviation was spilling tHe beans.
Reinforcing your fascist interpretation are recent news stories about how the giant health insurance companies are so in bed with ObamaCare that they will strongly resist attempts to reform or eliminate it. Obama’s plan is to use Big Business as the handmaid of State power. Conventional wisdom holds that the Nazis took power in Germany in no small part because of the support of Big Business. This dynamic needs to be better understood by the “stupid people”. In acts of hubris, Gruber has fired warning shots and howled like a wolf. It’s time for the herd to wake up and stampede.
The National Socialists in Germany didn’t have the full backing of the public when they took over power. They had only received 43% of the vote in the most recent Reichstag election. They had some big business support, that increased substantially once it became clear that working with the National Socialists was good for business.
The National Socialists dictated everything to business. One of the problems with Nazi government is that it hired to many bureaucrats and became woefully inefficient. Businesses had to jump through all sorts of red tape to do anything. Big business had the money to jump through the hoops and they were rewarded for it. Small and medium size business lost market share and eventually went out of business because they couldn’t afford the red tape.
This is what Obama and the Democrats are bringing to the US.