Eh, she’s still a liberal. For all her spunk - and she sure is spunky! - she’s a liberal. *sad face*
Is your life worth protecting? If so, whose responsibility is it to protect it? If you believe that it is the police's, not only are you wrong -- since the courts universally rule that they have no legal obligation to do so -- but you face some difficult moral quandaries. How can you rightfully ask another human being to risk his life to protect yours, when you will assume no responsibility yourself?...One who values his life and takes seriously his responsibilities to his family and community will possess and cultivate the means of fighting back...He will never be content to rely solely on others for his safety, or to think he has done all that is possible by being aware of his surroundings and taking measures of avoidance.
What Snyder wrote applies literally to every situation under the sun, not just thieves in the night or bad dudes in an alley but bureaucrats in lab coats and college faculty in sport coats. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
But for a moment, consider the recently redpilled, or liberals smacked by reality. Do they possess the mindset Snyder references? sThe mildly freedom-curious lot will give up; They'll cave.
For the remnants, not only do they need the will to persevere through this conversion process, but in many ways they need a robust pro-liberty mindset that is exercised often.
As the meme goes, one does not simply become Deplorable over night. Sure, it's easy to see the immorality of what's going on. It's also easy to say, for example, "no, I'm not getting vaxxed." But, as difficult as it may be for people who've had a Framer's mindset all their life, noobs don't just follow up that new attitude with the ninja-like thought process and access to information to facilitate a successful redpilling in an instant. That process takes some time.
Yes, there ARE many people - backed by friends with Snyder's mindset that's exercised often - who climbed through the muck and mire of the conversion process successfully.
"Question Authority" has morphed into "Obey Authority".
For those noobs who haven't yet built a Snyder mind, we need to bring them into the fold. Liberty grows when the field of participants expands, not by shrinking ourselves to glory.
The silver lining in all this, is that this incredible opposition thrown up by the statists to someone like the author, it really reveals how scared they are of us.
What is going on here has nothing to do with liberalism, it is a different, far more toxic ideology that defies all discourse and logic while shunning rational thought.
I donâÂÂt know what to call it but this type of black and white all or nothing mindset is showing up more and more.