Morris articulates the probable future well. (HT: Drudge) He writes:
2009-2010 will rank with 1913-14, 1933-36, 1964-65 and 1981-82 as
years that will permanently change our government, politics and lives.
Just as the stars were aligned for Wilson, Roosevelt, Johnson and
Reagan, they are aligned for Obama. Simply put, we enter his
administration as free-enterprise, market-dominated, laissez-faire
America. We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United
Kingdom, or Sweden — a socialist democracy in which the government
dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers
a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher
taxes.
Obama will accomplish his agenda of “reform” under the
rubric of “recovery.” Using the electoral mandate bestowed on a
Democratic Congress by restless voters and the economic power given his
administration by terrified Americans, he will change our country
fundamentally in the name of lifting the depression. His stimulus
packages won’t do much to shorten the downturn — although they will
make it less painful — but they will do a great deal to change our
nation. [my emphases]