Here’s something the left always tries to hide: they don’t think
we’re all that bright.
Seriously, they don’t. Never have, never will.
They think the public simply isn’t smart enough to do the
right thing. They know better than you,
in other words, so they’ll decide what’s best for you.
It’s like they see us as all as five-year-olds. We can’t be trusted to own guns. We can’t be
trusted to make our own decisions about healthcare. We can’t be trusted to use our own money
wisely. We can’t be trusted not to eat the wrong things. We can’t be trusted not to hurt ourselves.
They know best. They
are our perpetual parents.
Worse, they want to keep us that way. Forever. That’s why they fight tooth and nail against
anything that might make us think we can live without them.
Why, we just might shoot our eye out.
They need to protect us from ourselves. They also need to
protect us from the evil of our world – including bad things we didn’t even
know were out there. They are happy to teach us about dangers we never knew
about, bad things that could happen if we don’t do what they say, and bad
things that have already happened because we didn’t listen.
That’s their job. It’s all for the best.
Because they are looking out for us, they can do whatever
they want to protect us. If that means lying to us, so be it. If that means making stuff up to scare us,
that’s okay. In return, they will always be there to comfort us, kiss away the
boo-boos, and make sure we understand who is in charge, and from whom all the
good stuff flows. Just like the good
parents they are.
All we have to do is let them make every decision for
us.
For their paternalism to keep working, they need a
never-ending supply of monsters and bad things to protect us from. Otherwise, we might start thinking we don’t need
them so much. So they must keep inventing new threats to ensure we don’t decide
we could handle life on our own.
The left is really good at that.
Because we are just simple people after all, they’ve kept
things simple enough for us to understand.
Whatever they say is right; whoever disagrees with them is not only
wrong, but evil. If you even doubt them, you’re stupid and evil. There’s only one right side to a story. Their side.
They realize they don’t always tell the whole truth, but it’s
always for a good reason. It’s like
telling kids Santa exists, and if they aren’t good he won’t bring them
presents. Or that the Elf on the Shelf is real and tattles on you to Santa. Or
that eating paste will make your insides stick together. It’s all harmless to lie to get the behavior
you want. No biggie.
One of their best lies revolves around the threat that
something will be taken away by someone evil.
Even if they know that’s not true; it doesn’t matter. The threat alone
is enough to cow their flock into obedience, and often outrage.
Think a woman’s right to an abortion. Think civil rights. Think the right to vote. Think Social Security. Think Medicare. The left knows none of these is ever likely
to be taken away under any circumstances, no matter who is in the White House
or who sits on the Supreme Court.
They are also good at using peer pressure keep their flock
from straying. They constantly warn about falling in with the wrong crowd.
The wrong crowd includes those who try to convince us to
think for ourselves. To protect us from that they make sure that the wrong
crowd is presented consistently as everything decent people would hate –
racist, homophobic, misogynist, white supremacists, neo-Nazis, gun nuts, and narrow-minded religious bigots.
Especially conservatives and Republicans. Good people don’t associate with them.
It’s better not to even listen to those in the wrong crowd.
Keep them from spouting their heresy.
Prevent them from airing their views.
They are simply trying to lead us all astray. We’re not smart enough to resist what they
might say. It’s all blasphemy. And evil.
The truth is, the left cannot exist anymore without monsters
and evil to fight. But the constant hype about the risks we face without their
protection is wearing thin. We’re not little kids afraid of the dark. Many of us starting to see the left’s
paternalism for what it really is: a way to scare us into letting them control
our beliefs, our thoughts, and our lives.
The problem they face is that eventually most kids are going
to look under their bed and discover there’s no monster there, just dust
bunnies.
The left knows this is happening now. Almost all of their
dire warnings are being proven false. There’s little substance to the monsters
they’ve relied on so long. We’re
starting to wonder why we’ve been fed so many myths and outright lies over the
years to keep us frightened.
More and more of us are discovering there’s no monster under
our bed, just dust bunnies. And that the wrong crowd they warned us about isn’t
as they described; in fact, it’s a lot more tolerant and compassionate – and certainly
less violent – than the crowd on the left.
That scares the left.
Instead of conceding they’ve been caught in lies, they’ve doubled down.
They’ve abandoned reason altogether and now resort to threats and intimidation
to get their way. They yell, they
holler, and use physical violence against anyone who disagrees with them.
That’s exposed them as selfish, abusive, and manipulative,
willing to use the fear of what might happen – but probably won’t – as a tool
to maintain their power over us. But as more of their monsters prove to be mere
shadows without substance, more of us now realize everything is not nearly as
bad, or fraught with imminent peril, as they’ve wanted us to believe.
For many Americans, the left has lost our trust entirely. They’ve
also lost any respect we may have had for them. We now
understand they’re not smarter than us, they’re not the ultimate arbiter of how
we should live our lives, they’re not even a good example to follow.
And we don’t really need their protection against the
monsters they’ve invented because those monsters don’t really exist. They never
did.
We’ll be okay without their heavy hand.
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