Why oh why, do so many want this country to fail?
I will never watch this movie I remember it live ,don’t need to.
“Why do so many want this country to fail?” Because to “fundamentally transform America” we must fail. And because most liberals are miserable and they want the rest of us to be miserable too.
The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors. And as we cannot always be satisfied merely with being admired, unless we can at the same time persuade ourselves that we are in some degree really worthy of admiration; so we cannot always be satisfied merely with being believed, unless we are at the same time conscious that we are really worthy of belief. As the desire of praise and that of praise-worthiness, though very much a-kin, are yet distinct and separate desires; so the desire of being believed and that of being worthy of belief, though very much a-kin too, are equally distinct and separate desires.“Liberals” know that they can’t routinely make better decisions than society (“the market”) does, in all the fields of endeavor that society organizes and rationalizes via the market. But because they lust for authority, they want society (“the market”) to be seen as failing - and they want to believe it themselves - to rationalize a regime in which society does not self-govern but is governed by a higher agency which they fancy themselves as being rightfully part of.The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)