By John Hawkins
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
"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."
It's a kinder, gentler version of George Orwell's
horrific "boot stamping on a human face - forever." In the liberal
version, it's a boot gently pressing you to the ground, forever, "for your
own good" -- as if liberals have the slightest idea of what "your own
good" might be. Certainly, they believe they know what's best for you.
It's what they were told by their college professors, the New York Times and
their friends. There's a whole echo chamber dedicated to telling them exactly
what they want to hear about how other people should be living.
The problem with that is not so much liberals living how
they want to live; it's that liberals want to force everyone else to live how
they want to live. They don't like guns; so no one should have guns. They like
gay marriage; so everyone must be forced to like gay marriage. They like PBS;
so everyone should be forced to pay for PBS.
Once, when the planet was mostly made up of illiterate
people who engaged in subsistence farming and were ruled by noblemen, that sort
of thinking made a certain kind of sense. Today, liberalism's hunger to control
people is an anachronism that's out of place in the modern world. If California
wants to go billions into debt, welcome illegal aliens and have more people on
welfare than working, that's its mistake, but the real problem with liberalism
is that liberals insist on trying to force it to become EVERYONE'S MISTAKE.
It's not enough for California, New York and Illinois to destroy themselves;
liberals insist on trying to use the federal government to force citizens in
Texas, North Carolina and Utah to embrace the same destructive policies. It's a
one-size-fits-all philosophy in a world that's giving consumers more choices
every day.
If Justin Bieber is at the top of the pop charts, should
EVERYONE be forced to listen to Justin Bieber? If Duck Dynasty is popular,
should EVERYONE be forced to watch Duck Dynasty? If the two most popular foods
in America turn out to be hotdogs and chocolate ice cream, should EVERYONE have
to eat those two foods at every meal? We laugh at this sort of thinking in the
marketplace, but that's exactly the philosophy liberals have with government.
Liberals like expensive health care plans that pay for
birth control and maternity care; so EVERYONE has to have those plans or be
taxed. Liberals love abortion; so they believe EVERY STATE must make abortion
legal, even the ones that are pro-life. Liberals want to control how your
children are educated; so they refuse to allow parents to choose whether they
want to spend their tax dollars on public or private schools. Most people have
hundreds of options on TV, on the Internet and in the grocery store; yet
liberals want to use the federal government to take all of your choices away
when it comes to guns, education, your retirement and your health care.
It's why Congress has an approval rating of 6%. It's why
Obamacare is wildly unpopular. It's why D.C. and our court system have devolved
into partisan warfare. It's because liberalism is a non-functional, imperious
philosophy that is out of step with the modern world and on the wrong side of
history.
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