I agree with what the once-again optimistic John Hawkins writes here but it’s not enough for the left to fail; the political right has to succeed — and until we’re reaching more of the uniformed and misinformed success will continue to elude us.
Hawkins begins his post with two excellent quotes:
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” ~ C.S. Lewis
”One of the overriding points of Liberal Fascism is that all of the totalitarian ‘isms’ of the left commit the fallacy of the category error. They all want the state to be something it cannot be. They passionately believe the government can love you, that the state can be your God or your church or your tribe or your parent or your village or all of these things at once. Conservatives occasionally make this mistake, libertarians never do, liberals almost always do.” ~ Jonah Goldberg
Liberals dream of one day seeing all Americans permanently locked in the smothering, cradle-to-grave death grip of the nanny state. Nothing excites a liberal more than the idea of controlling where you go to school, regulating your work and play, deciding what type of health care you’re going to have and then deciding when you get to retire and how much money you have when you do. Even if you want to choose, you can’t. Even if you want to break free, you’re stuck. You’re not allowed to make different choices because liberals have made it illegal.
What if you’re pro-choice on spending your tax dollars on a private school instead of a public school? What if you’d prefer to keep your current health care plan instead of a much more expensive new plan that provides coverage you don’t need? What if you’d rather invest your own Social Security money instead of giving it to the government? Sorry, but you don’t get a choice. You get the same antiquated 1920s style mentality that prompted Henry Ford to say, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”
