Posted by
CPT on Wednesday, December 02, 2009 3:45:54 PM
Reading the headline "
White House Still Believes Global Warming is Happening" illustrates primary drivers for those who's convictions lead them to push for great collectivism of society.
One need not assume nefarious intent, although there are those with such. I think that the left is predominantly made up of those who's intent is "good" as they define it. The problem is that they seek such good for emotional satisfaction in themselves. They want to *feel* as if THEY are "good" and "caring" and "compassionate". To achieve these feelings they are willing to set aside positive values and factual data.
Positive values such as individual liberty. Such as personal accountability. Family, Church and community
caring for their own freely and not from artificial coercion of those who "think its right". These things aren't positive good values to many leftists. While wailing that "all people are basically good" they demand that what they think is right should be imposed upon others. This certainly belies any belief in inherent goodness of others.
Instead, in pursuit of feeling good, liberals *believe* in things regardless of fact or sense. They believe government can fix social ills despite the
long history of failure. They believe in global warming (or global climate change) despite
no conclusive evidence (and what evidence so far put forth is
fraudulent). They believe that peace can be achieved without war
despite the history of Hitler, Khan, Tamerlane, Louis XIV, Stalin, Mao etc.
Such intellectual constructs of believing something to maintain your own emotional satisfaction is cancerous to society, community and liberty. It allows you to justify the abrogation of others freedoms by coercion. It empowers those who seek power by giving them a (false) rationale to "legislate" or decree law that degrades the Constitution and imperils the citizenry's unalienable rights. No one, ethically and morally, has the right to abridge an individuals liberties that do not interfere with the freedoms of others. Life, liberty and property are the cornerstones. Every law, regulation or other external control to the life, liberty and property of others is wrong as long as the same rights are protected from others. There are no "rights" that impose a burden on others. None whatsoever. No matter how that makes you "feel".
Cancers must be treated or cut out. The chemo and radiation for cancerous beliefs are education of the lost collectivist mind. The surgeon's knife is political action to take back the government and return it to its Constitutional bounds.