Unlocking the Political Mind. Ronald J. Fintak Sr. M.S.
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unimaginable riches, and the chance to stand in the limelight of fawning adulation from a cowed underclass? Therefore, liberalism is a present-day utopian dream for its powerful few, but a nightmare for its powerless many.
Why then do we the people of America not see liberalism for what it is? Looking at voters, is it disinterest, chronic ignorance, lemming-like responses, collective depression, a head-in-the-sand mentality, misplaced loyalty, or an overly optimistic view of the future?
Looking at politicians, is it a lack of moral judgment, low intelligence, incompetence, corruption, or cronyism?
No. If it were any of the above, results would be hit or miss. There is nothing hit or miss in liberals making laws without public input, spending taxes with abandon, rewarding their believers with lavish perks, dodging investigations into liberal scandals, weakening America’s military, smearing good names of political opponents, lowering the value of the individual to raise the value of the state, and telling us how to live while its leaders squander fruits of our labors living like greedy dictators drunk on ill-gotten gains.
Nothing is hit or miss in liberal activists instructing the chronically ignorant on whom to praise, whom to hate, and whom to vote for.
What is hit or miss in liberals calling conservatives “extreme” (racist, evil, bigoted, greedy, capitalistic, homophobic, misogynistic, etc.)?
Staying with the last point, liberals attach the word “extreme” to all things conservative. It signals followers to ramp up already simmering hate. Liberals live and breathe extreme. If they were not extreme, they wouldn’t be liberals. Consider what is extreme: promoting chronic states of human degradation or encouraging public apathy so America slides into moral and financial decay, even though the psychologically healthy response is to protect America from all diabolical “hope and change” ideologies.
Liberals call Americans who want to protect America’s Constitution “right-wing kooks.” Is this not extreme? Why are pathological needs to control for the sake of control not extreme? Purposely stunting social, intellectual, and psychological potential of America’s citizens for political gain, thereby leaving populations trapped in lifelong misery, is an outrageously callous, and demented, example of political extremism. What about liberal race hustlers promoting a divisive, racial animus for profit, or lying to the public at every opportunity confident that an obedient media will give them cover?
Whatever is reported to be extreme in conservatism doesn’t come close to what is in fact extreme in liberalism.
Notwithstanding the many extremes of liberalism, why do some of conservatism’s own believe that conservatism is extreme? A drum beat of anti-conservative messages and the media’s re-manufacturing of the news, along with no push-back from wimpy conservatives, helped, over time, to sour America’s perceptions of what true conservative principles and values represent.
We can’t look to America’s media for help. They’re of one mind obediently imploring us to stop questioning government authority while trumpeting faux glories of liberalism. The field of journalism has degraded into a pedestrian, self-indulgent, close minded, pseudo-literate cabal of slick propagandists eagerly standing in line to accept whatever political blood money is due them for protecting liberals. This is the media’s credo: Subtract what makes liberals look bad; add what makes liberals look good; speak as unbiased, moral arbiters seeking truth.
We can’t look to America’s educational system. Our youth is already in the ideological grip of a carefully engineered indoctrination machine no one dares talk about, much less expose.
Is it any wonder that liberalism is an expanding, world-wide, political movement deeply embedded in our institutions, in our culture, in our values, even in select interpretations of theology (e.g., government welfare is charity.) For some, liberalism is a religious experience. For others, it is a lifestyle. How else do we explain the fact that so many Americans are happily turning themselves into victims of political exploitation without a second thought? Are we reliving a common, historical tragedy where societies rot from within before they disappear?
Liberalism’s sinister intrusion into the grand experiment we call America, along with its apathetic, dependent citizens living by a “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” mentality, are clear evidence of today’s political rot. We have politicians working silently under public radar acting like comic-book villains determined to rule the world. But their underlying messages are a slap in the face of every American: You can’t manage your own lives! Let enlightened masterminds guide you! Shut up and leave politics to us!
All this raises a seminal question: Are liberals crazy? There is enough craziness in their words and deeds to at least wonder about the quality of their mental health. We cannot dismiss mind-sets of people gladly trading their God-given liberties for government handouts as normal. Nor should we take in stride the fact that all liberals must think alike. How else should we label rage-filled ideologues railing against anyone who disagrees?
Let me rephrase. Is the belief in liberalism symptomatic of some kind of mental defect? Can we label these defects in psychological terms? What is the state of being crazy, or not crazy? Can this mental condition be prevented? What are its causes? Can we control its causes?
Granted, the word “crazy” isn’t an accurate definition of one’s true mental condition, but neither are terms like “psychological disturbance” or “defect,” “neurosis,” “mental illness,” “mental impairment, “mental instability,” “mentally disturbed,” “mental disorder,” “mental disease,” “behavior disorder,” “pre-psychotic,” “psychosis,” or “abnormal.”
Lacking accurate definitions, what other label than “crazy” best describes liberal symptomology? Everything liberals touch degrades into what is unrecognizable and broken, e.g., the family. After liberals reward unwed mothers for having more children than they can care for, they diminish the value of the father (Remember him?), and ignore the psychological harm the children must suffer for a lifetime. Hidden within the family’s umbilical cord to government is the fact that too many children of single-parent families are condemned to a marginal existence. Liberals—with a straight face—love to pontificate: “If it only saves one child…” Yet liberal policies continue to destroy lives of the unborn, and shorten lives of its dependent, helpless, and neglected followers.
As if on cue, many still view liberal corruption, and its lack of moral development, through rose-colored glasses. On the other hand, why not deny reality if the perks are too good to pass up? Why wouldn’t a psychologically compromised politician do whatever it takes to lure as many to his view of reality as he can if he is skilled enough to slip by public “watchdogs” to round up a majority of voters? We can’t blame crazy people for being crazy; nevertheless, we have no one but ourselves to blame for not recognizing crazy when it’s in our face screaming “Trust me!”
When all is said and done, how else do we label a political movement instilling hope that is never satisfied, fulfilling needs that are never met, compulsively seeking control over everyone, living by false promises, making sure the downtrodden stay down, ridiculing personal responsibility, denigrating American values, disrespecting America’s heritage, opening America’s borders to anyone, regulating how we think about gender, age, and racial differences, stifling individual freedoms and liberties, ignoring the psychological potential of its citizens, resisting government representation of its people, believing that our lives belong in the hands of liberal elites, making sure the government always stands above the individual, celebrating liberalism’s success in how it artfully shapes public thinking, making sure the powerful always gain more power, accumulating and keeping personal riches, demanding fawning adulation, embracing, and exploiting psychological problems, seeing everything in political terms, justifying anything that serves its purposes, denying the harm it causes its own people, turning self-sustaining, independent individuals into submissive, close-minded, obedient, dependent minions, coercing or buying politicians and the media to protect it, building political strategies around propaganda, rejecting the natural laws by which humanity lives long and happy lives, viewing collective helplessness, government dependency and chronic ignorance as social positives, lying, deceiving, twisting meanings of words to promise