I am like David Horowitz in having had communist parents and having grown up in a household in which plotting against the state with other subversives was second nature. In many ways it provides for us who have turned against the left a form of understanding that gives clarity for what to others are arguable perspectives. In this article Horowitz is trying to say something that should frighten you about the totalitarian world that is forming right before our eyes at a speed that is totally beyond any expectation.

His article is titled “The Threat We Face” and this is the central point about the direction in which the US is right now, right this minute, heading and taking us with it.

Today the Obama juggernaut is systematically bankrupting our country, and undoing our constitutional arrangements. Its contempt for consultative and representative government is relentlessly on display. This week Senate Majority leader Harry Reid defended his refusal to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare and the debt in these words: ‘We are here to support the federal government. That’s our job.’ End quote. Forget about representing the people whom our Founders made sovereign. Forget what America is about.

The fact that I had a radical past allowed me to see much of this coming. But even I never thought we would be looking so soon at the prospect of a one-party state. Those words may sound hyperbolic, but take a moment to think about it. If you have transformed the taxing agency of the state into a political weapon – and Obama has; if you are setting up a massive government program to gather the financial and health information of every citizen, and control their access to care; and if you have a spy agency that can read the mail and listen to the communications of every individual in the country, you don’t really need a secret police to destroy your political opponents. Once you have silenced them, you can proceed with your plans to remake the world in your image.

I have written much the same recently myself over here. This was my final para in that post:

The full resources of the American government are being used in a punitive way against individuals and groups, against American citizens who disagree with the President. In reading not just the American media but even the right side blogs, the most astonishing part is the absence of expressions of genuine outrage. Maybe with the American media as latently totalitarian as it is there is nothing that can be done, and maybe no one writing a blog wants to be done over by the tax office, but if it doesn’t make you seriously angry, and not just a little frightened, I don’t know what would.

What can be done about anything I cannot at this stage imagine. The media in the United States are corrupted by their own grossly superficial and far left-oriented understanding of every issue of importance, from foreign policy through economics and down to the Constitutional protections of individual rights. That the use of the IRS to persecute individuals is not seen as an absolute abuse of power intolerable in anyone’s hands and is not portrayed loudly and regularly in this way by the media is the final proof that the notion of the fourth estate as a guarantor and protector of our freedoms is hollow. They are a major part of the problem for which solutions evade me.

Recognition of Obama for who he is and what he wants is the first place to start but how will the alarm be sent? How will anyone beyond a handful find out? Who will actually be the Paul Revere who will bring the message that the red press is perverting your freedoms? Where are the constituencies that can turn that concern into a policy of action? It’s not even all that obvious to most on this side of politics. To the other side, they are more than content because they are winning on the politics because they have virtually every means of communication in their hands. The national socialists are in charge in the US and if you don’t like it and try to say or do anything about it, they will soon see how much you like being done over by the IRS and that’s just for a start.