In 2009, it seems becoming president of the United States is a simple path: convince a population group to relinquish their assets in exchange for promising to make them feel better. In the case of the current president, he convinced enough people to hand over portions of their current and future liberties, and liberties of their children, in exchange for … what? A middle-class tax cut? Making sure the rich are taxed more? The approval of Europeans on how we handle the war on terror, releasing detainees at Guantanamo?
The lesson is clear: Promise comfort and appeasement – and in return, millions will hand over individual freedoms and future assets. Many conservatives, deriding the current president for being liberal, feel that liberalism is the greatest threat to America. I disagree. Liberalism is simply an anesthesia of choice for the real problem in America: self-centeredness.
When individuals consider only themselves and their physical or emotional comfort, they are easy prey to the carnivorous idea that one’s feeling of contentment is paramount. Like morphine, liberalism (and its representatives) attaches to the screaming pain receptors and provides an illusion that all is well by masking the dysfunction with feelings of euphoria and serenity.
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