Dick Morris: What Many Polls Are Missing

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Once again, it's just eerie to me how much this sounds like what I was thinking at this time in 2004.

I don't know any democrat who thought Bush's policies couldn't be changed or defeated even if he won a second term.  Our belief is that if Obama wins a second term, the policies that are enacted will stay permanently - developing a society that functions around cradle to grave government care that in short time gives way to an economic collapse that tips the balance of power in the world to Russia and China whilst the rest of the western world collapses into chaos. 

The democratic opposition to Bush was for a much less motivating reason.  It was primarily a combination of a feeling of delegitimacy left over from the 2000 election, anti-war protest and support for gay rights.  That's not like the opposition we have to Obama.  It wasn't the end of the country if Bush won a second term.  The country would make its typical cyclical shift between democrats and republicans every 8-12 years.  It certainly did during the 2008 election.  This year truly is different.  The feelings I described in the paragraph above are not just felt by a bubble of conservatives pushing conspiracy theories.  The view is near uniform among every single registered republican, even the republican moderates I know and many independents. 

Two things:
1. If Obama's policies are so horrible, why wouldn't the Republican party be able to overturn them after the landslide defeat for the Democrats, caused by his horrible policies?
2. You dismiss far too lightly democratic opposition against Bush in 2004. For example, I don't think that any major Republicans have threatened to leave the US if Obama (and yes, I know that was mostly in jest, but it was still indicative).

1. First, we don't have control of the senate.  Second, his policies are creating a society dependent upon government for every need.  The Julia cartoon says it best.  Once you are dependent, you don't let it go.  Once Obamacare is implemented, it will never be gotten rid of.  Say for example, that it does what we think it will do - cause a shortage of doctors, increase wait times and decrease quality of care.  The people getting free care won't give it up, even if the old level of care was better because its "free".  Every day we don't cut spending brings us closer to the tipping point of economic collapse with our national debt.  That collapse will likely unable to be surmounted.  Also, watch the end of 2016: Obama's America.
2. Where would we go?  This country is it.  There isn't another country in the world that would ever allow the level of economic and personal freedoms allowed by conservatism.  All of the rest are dictatorships or social democracies.  Plus, we love this country.  Unlike democrats, there isn't another country that shares our views and values.  That's why it's easier for democrats to say they'll move to Canada.

So you think Canada is less free? I would be grateful if you could outline exactly why.