forget oprah, or even the obamas, most people (and yeah, i consider myself, good old regular folk, so to speak) i know have pretty good lives – remarkably good, in fact. the numbers say we have never been better off as a society in every way (unemployment is low, income levels are high, ineterest rates are low, science, technology, life spans, etc.). i remember a friend in san diego who was a transplanted new york liberal who always talked about how tough it was because of bush. here was a person who owned a high priced condominium, a fancy car, a rather large stock portfolio given his age and position, and every advantage and opportunity he could want, and he was whining about his ’struggles’. it is just a mindset that liberals have and it is why they are liberals in the first place, depsite the massive evidence that their policies are truly harmful and hurtful to everybody, probably especially the little guy. it is why they keep africa in poverty and much of the world in virtual chains for their own emotional needs.

basically, if they are liberals, they have good lives, yet are miserable anyway. if they are more conservative (or sensible), even if they have struggles, they more or less go about their own business. but liberals need to feel good, which only comes from the right words. truth and consequences be damned.

i will never forget a professor i was talking to at a lunch in upstate new york who told the story of explaining to her son why all the farmers in those areas were republicans when it was ‘obviously in their interests to be democrats’ and she explained that it was because they all were hoping that they would be rich too someday (i think she used the lottery as the means). that statement blew me away. it is unfathomable to these liberals that some people just want to live their own lives in peace and are not hell bent on controlling everything and everybody for their own selfish, momentary benefit. of course, i didn’t expect this highly educated business school professor to understand that, in fact, not controlling everything was in these ‘poor farmers’ economic interests, anyway. but i wouldn’t expect someone of her knowledge and education (both, presumably immense) to understand that anyway, giving she wouldn’t feel good about it.

truecon on February 21, 2008 at 6:31 PM