Collectivism logically wouldn't be sought by a massive, advanced civilization like the US, but the US has been 'for sale' for over two decades: doors, cash registers, land, citizens trashed by two political parties. Any thief, collectivist or otherwise, can take whatever he wants from the US today

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1/21/13, "We the Government," "An inaugural address of striking liberal ambition and partisanship." Wall St. Journal editorial

"White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer expressed the current mood in the West Wing this way to the Washington Post on Inauguration Day: "There's a moment of opportunity now that's important. . . . What's frustrating is that we don't have a political system or an opposition party worthy of the opportunity."

So neither the checks and balances of U.S. democracy nor the Republican Party that controls one branch of Congress is worthy of President Obama's grand aspirations. Presumably they must bow to his superior moral purposes. 

It's important to appreciate how much such contemptuous talk deviates from normal public White House respect for the men and women a President must do political business with."...

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The transformation required no effort, just a willingness to wait:

4/1/2010, "The Obama Coalition," The Atlantic, Thomas Byrne Edsall

"Over the last two years, there has been a massive increase in the number of people who have no place to turn except to the government. Enactment of the Obama administration’s health care reform legislation demonstrates the growing power of this burgeoning constituency—a constituency which will reap a disproportionate share of the $1 trillion in new health care spending over the next decade....

The ranks of those who identify with either the “haves” or the “have-nots” are swollen, while the number of those seeing themselves as in the middle, centrally positioned, has declined....

A majority of the American labor movement is now directly dependent on tax dollars. In terms of political orientation, these workers can now be described as tax consumers as well as tax payers....

Health care reform marks a significant milestone in the restoration of the American progressive tradition....

Obama has taken major risks. He could go down in flames...or he could effect—as promised—the long-awaited transformation of American politics."

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Ed. note: The reason the US can be 'transformed' so easily--it's sitting there for the taking--- is there's no opposition party. The GOP establishment agrees with Obama.

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