Hatred, Part III: Kids aren't off limits after all.

June 16, 10:14 AMLA Gun Rights ExaminerJohn Longenecker

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The Left in America is still seventeen years old. It still breaks all the rules because it feels that it can, or worse, that it is somehow justified in its cause. This solipsism is killing the country.

In Part III, I want to cite some of the best examples of how teen thinking and angst of statists betrays their inner motivations. When the alcoholic loves the booze more than marriage, you can see what's on his mind. When the needle for the addict is more important than family, personal health, or future, you can see what must be on their mind. And when a statist looks forward to the ascendancy of the State more than liberty itself, even his own personal liberty, it becomes clear there, too.

Some of the best evidence I furnish is the double standard, the idea that the adults are held to a higher standard than the kids, and that liberals live by this political tactic which betrays how they perceive the political situation: they view conservatives as adults to be mature and self-restrained and themselves as kids who can get away with anything. This means that, of course, they expect nothing of themselves in the way of personal integrity. They lie, they steal archival documents, and they hate other people's kids.

Nothing states this better than how they insist that their side be respected and that their kids are off limits, but that kids of the conservatives are fair game. This has been going on intensely since the election. But there's more.

The double standard as it is practiced by the statists betrays not only what leftists think of free people who do not need them, it also furnishes what they must think of themselves.

It is quite an inner battle that statists have to fight: they are not needed by a free people, but they fight for their survival, and they can become pretty ugly. Their battle comes in part from their static position in still being seventeen, emotionally.  There is so much they simply cannot understand. Now they're both static and statist!

2. The brutality in their increasing spitefulness has them becoming very talented in pushing America's buttons. Something inside them drives this foible, and part of it is a control issue over soothing their old wounds. America and conservatives have nothing to do with those wounds, but it feels better to hurt others than to be cured. There's a lot of truth in the comparison of why some people hang on to old wounds and injustices, and others get past them. Some grew up and others remain seventeen.

3. Why statists expect nothing of themselves is because it would put them in control of their anxiety. Blaming others – something Americans are already aware of in statists — is common, and it serves to indict independent thinkers as enemies while keeping themselves off the list of the named accused. Morality and integrity are not the statist's strong suit. They'll let you down every time. Soon, if they gain much more power, you will become not only someone toblame, but an enemy of the State.

Finally, as long as statists externalize the causes and perceptions of their personal problems, they will never cure them. As with gun control, it is not where crime is fought. This is why gun control doesn't work for safety, but it feels good to the statist. The political arena is not where personal anxiety is fought or cured. It, too, doesn't work, but it feels good to the statist. This is at the core of all feel-good legislation, including health care. that won't work, either, because it is conceived for all the wrong reasons.

The danger in dealing with statists at all is that everything they touch turns to crap, and it means that any sort of good faith cooperation will surrender up the nation for their own anxiety and not for any real justice or societal advancement; this will not cure that anxiety, but it will give up the nation all for nothing.

Ever wonder what makes a statist in a free country turn statist? What makes someone hate other people's kids and boldly attack them?

Ever wonder why gun control never works, but comes back for more and more laws? Where is the hate really coming from?

Do you think statism will work at all and for whom? What's it really all for?

Whatever it is — and I think statism within a free society who doesn't really need statists is all a very impaired point of view — one of the best cures for what ails America is to have the right officials in office who can undo this. We get to decide this, if we will only decide it. Whatever you think of either party, and for all the complaining, we find that too many are not even registered to vote. Whatever the reason, it's time to register to vote, to get out the Vote, and to get out and vote.

It's time to get re-involved.

The statists seem to raise the dead to get out the Vote. It's time we got out the vote for the living and for the next generation to live in freedom and independence from their own public servants. This way, the statists probably won't be attacking other people's kids.

Vote.
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