Obama Lacks Mandate on Health Care; Description of Tyrant Fits Him Better

In politics, a mandate is the authority granted by a constituency to act as its representative. The concept of a government having a legitimate mandate to govern via the fair winning of a democratic election is a central idea of democracy. New governments who attempt to introduce policies that they did not make public during an election campaign are said to not have a legitimate mandate to implement such policies.

Barack Obama does not have a legitimate mandate to pass health care reform. After announcing this policy initiative, the polling data has revealed that America does not want it. The townhalls that were held to discuss his health care reform proposals turned into angry mobs. In almost every election held since Obama announced his desire to reform health care, his supporters have been shockingly destroyed. Tea parties are held in every district in every state in the nation, each month or week. President Obama does not have the just authority to pass health care reform, and because of this, he should not.

And yet, in spite of this evidence, President Barack Obama is upping the ante on health care. On the eve of sitting down with Republicans to discuss health care and how bipartisan compromises can be reached through discussion and deliberation, he dropped his new health care proposal on the nation, and it is even worse than anything that has come before it. Although it keeps with this administration's policy of not being transparent and having few details, what has been released by Obama is an even larger, more expensive, more insulting version of the Senate version that never was passed before.

More spending, more subsidies, and more taxes. That's not what the American people elected Obama for. Go back and watch his campaign commercials. Read the interviews from people who voted for Obama. Watch the debates again. Obama dodged and ducked and muddled, but people thought he was clear enough when he promised to cut spending, cut subsidies, cut corruption, cut earmarks, cut taxes, engage in bipartisanship, and be transparent with policy creation. Instead though, he has doubled down on everything bad and wrong about American politics- whatever voters didn't like about Bush, Obama has doubled down, and doubled down again, and when told by the American people to stop, he has doubled down again.

The central idea of a democracy and the basis of legitimacy to rule in a democracy is having politicians that listen to the voters and do what they want. But Obama does not like democracy, perhaps because he was not raised in a nation that values it, and Obama is losing his legitimacy to rule. Probably a better word for Obama is tyrannus, meaning illegitimate ruler- Obama increasingly displays the habits and methods of a harsh and cruel ruler who places his or her own interests ahead of those of the American people.