[ThePythonicCow]

The point – which is always the same point – is that we must not protect ourselves but should just let liberals run the world.

Bingo. Liberalism is a ploy by a few would be tyrants to gain the support of the masses by convincing them to work for some purpose, any purpose, that is not to one's own damn good, not subject to common sense.

If you're working for the obvious benefit of yourself, your family and your neighbors, doing something you can observe the benefits and costs of, and experience the results of, then you are the enemy of liberals. For you are in control of your own life.

If you can be persuaded, out of guilt or fear or whatever, to work to save the starving children in a faraway land (not the one next door), or the environment (but not the tree in your backyard) or the victims of genocide or the homeless or the elderly (in the abstract - not your actual mother) or world peace or whatever, then you are in the control of the spinmeisters who establish these "goals". They can get you to do anything, just by spinning it right.

For a few, such as Dr. Livingston or Mother Theresa, such faraway ills are immediate and personal, and something to be directly addressed from personal awareness. God bless them.

But do-gooders from a distance are a dangerous fuel for the liberal mischief of tyrants.

[serinde]

If you can be persuaded, out of guilt or fear or whatever, to work to save the starving children in a faraway land (not the one next door), or the environment (but not the tree in your backyard) or the victims of genocide or the homeless or the elderly (in the abstract - not your actual mother) or world peace or whatever, then you are in the control of the spinmeisters who establish these "goals". They can get you to do anything, just by spinning it right.

Ooh, I like this statement. Thanks.