Who Cares..? Part II.

As I’d written in Part I, my statement that nobody cares is a call to re-examine safety nets as they have become a path to dependency. I am for assistance, but I am against excessive assistance, better known as dependency. With so much safety net hanging around, who needs to care when they’re being taken care of so well?

Or are they? Is it in the nation’s best interest to cultivate dependency as liberals have done for generations now?

There is a difference between being dependent and being dependable. The left encourages dependency while the right encourages dependability. And we pay a price for it in bitter attacks to unwind whatever we build. As a management style, the left builds nothing.

Dependable is what we are made of as a nation, the dependability of people as a core value in America. Dependent is where we don’t want to go. The left in America seeks to make more and more people dependent against our will, dragging the rest of us in with them. This is where we object. We care, alright. When the constituents don’t care is when we have a problem.

Liberals interfere with one’s personal independence as a governance style. Though some programs are helpful, they expand when they should be self-limiting, so that a helping hand becomes eventual dependency – a simple formula which makes up their entire playbook.

Now they fight for this control, when the country would be better served by less of it. Much less of it.

Well, Chuck Schumer announced that the Left has a message now – to be announced in early 2006 – which is to agree that they haven’t had one for a long time, isn’t it? (And to buy time to construct one.)

I can’t wait.

This is called compounding the felony. In publicizing the forthcoming new message, the announcement exposes the left’s decades-old emptiness and demonstrates that they have, in fact, been harassing the Right as a distraction for their not having a message, not having their act together. Otherwise, the message of liberalism would have stood on its own without any need to harass conservatives.

In short, the left has nothing to say.

They won’t have a message now or later, unless they hijack conservative ideas as they have and move to the right. Watch. The left cannot get elected unless they speak of middle or conservative values, which is to say moving more to the right instead of staying left – which is to say that they believe that people prefer the Right! There’s even talk about more faith-based items on the agenda – moving more to the right, are we, Hillary?

Where Liberty Enthusiasts suspect the fate of going left in America to be one of eventual slavery, it would be much more one of forced dependency, from crazy health care schemes and penalties to market surveillance technologies to suspicion of citizens. We’ll never return to people owning other people, but we are on the road to increased dependency. What’s the difference, really?

Liberalism as a philosophy of planned dependency should die a natural death of unwelcomeness. We should continue to go on without them.

Liberalism as a philosophy of no faith in people should die of old age. As a playbook of political harassment now drained of anything more to give, liberalism should pass into the history books as failed, vengeful attempts at social engineering.

Because liberalism was a failure. It was even a failure of the good-hearted, as it presumed, wrongly, that people cannot do things, that people cannot act in their own enlightened self-interest without supervision. It becomes self-fulfilling when independence is intercepted and frustrated as liberals do it to justify their very existence.

My kids and I were watching I, ROBOT over the weekend, and we noticed something about V.I.K.I., the head robot: when she elects to improve on the Three Laws, and takes over society to protect the humans from themselves, she symbolizes the left's argument that the Constitution is a living document and flexible enough to adjust to one's own interpretation that people cannot take care of themselves. Anybody else see that in it?

Good-hearted people are always welcome to our shores. We raise Americans to be good-hearted, among other things. We also raise them to be sensible. Liberals aren’t needed to do that!

We also raise Americans to be courageous, with dependence only on each other, not officials. Independence is the foe of leftism. Always has been. Always will be.

So, in the final analysis, do we care for the poor and the defenseless?

Of course we care. Especially. And we don’t care... Because we hope they don’t need us to.

Because, as fellow strugglers, we relate to them better than the elitist left ever will. We come to their aid dozens of ways in support of their homes, families and way of life. We teach. We remain available. Liberals subsist purely on unwinding our values to breed dependency upon them, and cannot ever relate to their constituents. Being so anti-household, Liberalism is so anti-life.

Then we next care further by non-interference. We care by mutual interest, moral support and by example. We care by passing on heritage, discernment and acumen, and staying out of your way. You’ll do okay. V.I.K.I. thinks -- excuse me - the Liberals think - that you can't.

Webster said, They mean to be good Masters, but they mean to be Masters.

This is the playbook of the left.

The conservative message is the same as always: independence. The Right has never been without a message. The greatest respect one has for another is confidence in them that they can and confidence in their freedoms - the fact that they may act in liberty - sometimes portrayed as uncaring, always welcome as adult.

Because when you make a living intercepting the consequences of failure by furnishing too many safety nets, you also intercept the rewards of effort. With all that subtraction, the remainder is Dependency.

I can hardly wait to hear the new message of the liberals.

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John Longenecker is author of Transfer Of Wealth - The Case For Nationwide Concealed Carry, available everywhere this December. His website is www.NationwideConcealedCarry.com