Posted on 06/04/2010 5:36:32 PM PDT by neverdem
We are battling an insidious mindset. I had a discussion with a young lefty today who declared that “History has shown that Capitalism is unsustainable” (no examples given) and that the “US needs to catch-up with the rest of the world and have more regulations.” It must be nice to attend univeristy on mommy and daddy’s dime.
insidious?
Rossiter calls it a psychological disorder
“A social scientist who understands human nature will not dismiss the vital roles of free choice, voluntary cooperation and moral integrity – as liberals do,”
he says.
“A political leader who understands human nature will not ignore individual differences in talent, drive, personal appeal and work ethic, and then try to impose economic and social equality on the population – as liberals do.
And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which over-regulates and over-taxes the nation’s citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state – as liberals do.”
Dr. Rossiter says the liberal agenda preys on weakness and feelings of inferiority in the population by:
creating and reinforcing perceptions of victimization;
satisfying infantile claims to entitlement, indulgence and compensation;
augmenting primitive feelings of envy;
rejecting the sovereignty of the individual, subordinating him to the will of the government.
“The roots of liberalism – and its associated madness – can be clearly identified by understanding how children develop from infancy to adulthood and how distorted development produces the irrational beliefs of the liberal mind,” he says. “When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious.”
They all have inferiority complexes. That makes them easy to brainwash. Thus, they promote tyrannical controls, while believing they are liberating people.
Obama’s ideal for America would be to recreate East Germany.
Indeed. He forgot that Capitalism sustains him via dad’s money. It is easy to be a liberal when someone else is footing the bill.
He also insisted that it is too difficult for people to get one Welfare.
"'TIS fine to see the Old World and travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,
To admire the crumbling castles and the statues and kings
But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.
So it's home again, and home again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again and there I long to be,
In the land of youth and freedom, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
I like the German fir-woods in green battalions drilled;
I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing foutains filled;
But, oh, to take your hand, my dear, and ramble for a day
In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her sway!
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack!
The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free--
We love our land for what she is and what she is to be.
Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me!
I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea,
To the blessed Land of Room Enough, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
"'TIS fine to see the Old World and travel up and down
Among the famous palaces and cities of renown,
To admire the crumbling castles and the statues and kings
But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things.
So it's home again, and home again, America for me!
My heart is turning home again and there I long to be,
In the land of youth and freedom, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
Oh, London is a man's town, there's power in the air;
And Paris is a woman's town, with flowers in her hair;
And it's sweet to dream in Venice, and it's great to study Rome;
But when it comes to living there is no place like home.
I like the German fir-woods in green battalions drilled;
I like the gardens of Versailles with flashing foutains filled;
But, oh, to take your hand, my dear, and ramble for a day
In the friendly western woodland where Nature has her sway!
I know that Europe's wonderful, yet something seems to lack!
The Past is too much with her, and the people looking back.
But the glory of the Present is to make the Future free--
We love our land for what she is and what she is to be.
Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me!
I want a ship that's westward bound to plough the rolling sea,
To the blessed Land of Room Enough, beyond the ocean bars,
Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
btt
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“Did the president urge the graduates to get out there and create the growth and jobs our country needs? Did he inspire them to be the next generation of great American innovators and entrepreneurs? No; instead, he told the graduates that people who “chase after all the usual brass rings” display “a poverty of ambition.” He averred that this thinking “has been in our culture for far too long.” He told them they could do better than trying “to be on this ‘who’s who’ list or that top 100 list.””
The guy is the champion for mediocrity - for both individuals and the nation.
He hates that we’re the richest, strongest country and is working hard to insure we’re no longer so.
Bookmarked. This is one of the best articles on FR I’ve read in a long time.
Well I got over that Liberal Communist envy crap awhile ago ,Im 60 Now,Lucky to still be Living in My own Home I guess, two Children Thank God both still working about to have Our first Grand Child this Month, Have been to Disney World a Number of times ,I love that Capatalist paradise,Thank God for that Man Walt Disney ,Uh Oh,He was Rich,Oh well. A Lifelong Dream trip to The Grand Canyon,Monument Valley and Sedona Arizona Last year,Been To Norway,Have Visited California,Minnesota,Canada ,Vermont,Mass and a Lot of other places.
I am A navy Veteran served from 1968 to 1972,visited Far eastern Countries. As Of Now Luckily I am still working at the same job I have been doing for 38 years and will probably Die doing and I make a Gross of 40 thousand dollars,with the exception of a a few years in my own business when I made 42 thousand a year for a couple years that is the most I have ever earned in a Year,I say this not because I am ashamed or Bragging,just that I am An American,I have been Free to chart My own Course ,I have made all My own decisions ,a lot of them Wrong I will admit that,all the same they have all been Mine,I love this Country and I want My children to have the same RIGHT to do that. There is NO amount of money that can take the Place of that. When you go on the Government Dole Voluntarily you sell your soul and you sell out all of our forbearers sacrifices for that freedom.
People struggle through life,all with their own issues ,My Stepfather was a Compulsive Gambler ,hocking the Tv to play the Horses ,we were always one step of the Sharks after him for their money,Ct. New York ,Florida,a dozen different towns Schools all before I was 13.I guess I am a Product of that Enviornment ,I dont gamble and have lived in the Same house for 38 years I wanted My children to Have Roots and I have done it in The United Staes Of America,LIFE IS GOOD.
To Hell with Communist Liars and Deceivers like Obama
And that's good...
I don't understand why people think the gap matters.
If the living standard of everybody improves with a vibrant economy, why worry that your neighbor is making more than you are?
People get stuck in envy when they should be thankful for opportunity and the general wellness that economic freedom creates.
Los Angeles County Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas spent $25000 of tax money for a spot in “Who's Who in Black Los Angeles.” Better tell Barack that “public servants” like the brass rings too.
“For far too long....”
“For far too long....”
“For far too long....”
“For far too long....”
Individual greed = good.
Government greed = bad.
It's NOT rational. It's psychotic viciousness to the Nth degree.
See: "...in the much more virulent cases of hatred, masked as envy ... the creature ... does not desire the value: it desires the value's destruction." and "They do not want to own your fortune, they want you to lose it; they do not want to succeed, they want you to fail; they do not want to live, they want you to die; they desire nothing, they hate existence ..." (Atlas Shrugged.)
from "THE AGE OF ENVY" by Ayn Rand HERE
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