Charlie Gard's Parents Give Up – and You're Next

American Thinker ^ | July 26,2017 | By Daren Jonescu

[Hojczyk]

the hospital and the British Parliament will make suitably grave remarks about how tragic it is to lose "this beautiful baby" (whom they killed), and how much their hearts go out to "his loving parents" (whom they stripped of their rights, their dignity, and their baby).

But the public outcry will die down; Charlie's death will, given the time-distorting elasticity of memory, begin to look like a vindication (rather than condemnation) of the government's decision; and the real issues at the heart of this case – progressivism's crushing of the private family and socialized medicine's absolute rejection of the natural rights to self-ownership and self-preservation – will be lost in the fog.

The fog. We use that expression a lot in this era. The fog of misinformation. The fog of mixed motives. The fog of conflicting interpretations.

The fog is somewhat endemic to the human condition. It is also a chief weapon of progressive authoritarianism. All that progressives need to advance their agenda is the chutzpah to force their will on the people at first – and then the willpower to wait, to ignore the pleas for freedom, the cries of justice, until slowly, inevitably, the fog begins to settle around all of us, and, like Charlie Gard's parents, we are forced to give up, tired and forlorn.

This is how progressives have defeated Chris and Connie. This is how Hillary Clinton defeated the Benghazi hearings. This is how Obamacare, which was hated at the outset and forced upon a country that didn't want it, is now almost universally accepted as America's historical wedge leading to full single-payer health care, exactly as it was intended to be.

The fog is progressively swallowing all of us, individual liberty is fading into the mist, step by step. This is how socialism wins.

[kaila]

Oh, stop the histrionics. Are you in the healthcare profession? What this doctor did was play on a families emotions and did not follow protocols. I bet GOSH will eventually file a complaint against this doctor.
Go to nursing or medical school, then you can talk intelligently about a case like this. I have seen plenty in my career. ( now semi retired)