Monday, February 23, 2015

PEOPLE BECOME JIHADISTS FOR THE SAME REASON PEOPLE BECOME LEFTISTS

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: PEOPLE BECOME JIHADISTS FOR THE SAME REASON PEOPLE BECOME LEFTISTS: "I think it is. I think these people are egomaniacal utopianists who think they can bring about a better world for everyone - "whether you like it or not" - and are so sure of it that they are willing to lie, cheat, murder, use terror and even commit treason and genocide.

When Obama lied 30 times and told us over and over that "if we liked our healthcare, then we could keep our healthcare - period ... " he was willing to lie because he was convinced his leftist program was for our own good - democracy and truth be damned.

It is this sense of superiority, elitism and the utopianist urge that drives some people to become leftists and others to become jihadists.

Libertarians and conservatives on the other hand believe that humans and society are imperfectable; therefore libertarians and conservatives endeavor to create, not a perfect place, but a "more perfect" one - meaning one that allows individuals and families as much freedom to make their own lives what they want them to be; one that allows us each to pursue happiness in our own way. This is why libertarian and conservatives are so adamant about defending the US Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution: because they specifically limit federal power and generally limit all governmental power while asserting the inviolability of the individual - not because we are each perfect, but because we are each unique and imperfect in our own way. And this is why our families, and communities and states and nations are also imperfect. We merely have to respect each other's innate rights and do our best to get along to thrive in a society of greatest liberty and bounty - after all, prosperity is a by-product of liberty.

What keeps this from becoming a reality are the utopianist bullies of the left and of jihadism.

That's why we must defeat both."


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