The Most Equal Comrade is a jackbooted totalitarian socialist - today's edition

It's all here: denigration of profits, denigration of CEO salaries, differentiation of privately owned organizations by size and structure, the strong implication that said organizations have some kind of obligation to provide health insurance for those it hires to perform functions it needs performed.

And of course, that signature smugness, that assumption that everyone shares his skewed, grotesque morality, is on full display:

U.S. President Barack Obama singled out office supply company Staples Inc as undercutting his healthcare reform law and said large corporations should not use the health insurance issue as an excuse for cutting wages, the news website BuzzFeed reported.

"It's one thing when you've got a mom-and-pop store who can't afford to provide paid sick leave or health insurance or minimum wage to workers ... but when I hear large corporations that make billions of dollars in profits trying to blame our interest in providing health insurance as an excuse for cutting back workers’ wages, shame on them,” Obama said in an interview with BuzzFeed.

The Affordable Care Act requires companies with more than 50 employees to pay for health insurance for people who work 30 hours a week or more. Reuters has reported that some businesses are keeping staffing numbers below 50 or cutting the work week to less than 30 hours to avoid providing employee health insurance.

Staples, the No. 1 U.S. office supplies retailer, has told its employees not to work more than 25 hours per week, according to a Buzzfeed report on Monday.

Staples Chief Executive Officer Ronald Sargent brought home $10.8 million in total compensation in 2013. The company reported net profit of $620.1 million through Feb. 1, 2014.

"There is no reason for an employer who is not currently providing health care to their workers to discourage them from either getting health insurance on the job or being able to avail themselves of the Affordable Care Act,” Obama said in the interview Tuesday.

Staples and the US Chamber of Commerce both point out that Staples has had this policy for several years preceding Freedom-Hater-care. A good point, but far from the main one.  But, of course, to get to the main point, we have to peel away so many layers of nonsense that a good many citizens will merely shake their head and say, "Far too quixotic and simplistic."

Is it?  Are we really at such a grim juncture that the basic point that it is none of the federal government's God-damned business how any private organization compensates anybody working for it, or how any citizen sees to his or her health care needs to be justified by some kind of endless stream of verbal puking?

To fight the kind of evil that the Most Equal Comrade is here embodying, we must not stop short of the primary principles at stake.  Otherwise, we risk entanglement in wonkery and half-measures.  We stare at little brush strokes and fail to see the terrifying painting before which we stand.