ClayBarham
11-17-2007, 05:22 PM
How do you formulate a political position? What is our source of beliefs and ideological loyalties? It starts with how we see our self and others. Politics is all about society of people of all kinds coexisting with each other. How we perceive others leads to how we behave with each other. As children, we learn from our teachers, our environment, and the actions of people around us. We form opinions as to our personal worth and the value of others from our early life experiences. It always begins at the beginning.
If raised in a healthy family, in a good environment, we learn we are good and everyone else is too. You are unique, they are unique, and you can all get along fine in society, playing, living and working together. That is a healthy view. Raised in a dysfunctional family, or bad environment, may cause us to believe we are no damn good and neither is anyone else. People with that “no damn good” view take what they can before others do. With these people, society needs defending with laws, police, courts and jails.
That still leaves two more views. Some children are led to be self-centered, arrogant, seeing self as good, great, and heroic, and everyone else as pond scum, less than worthwhile. They think others need their guidance. The last view is the child that is taught that he or she is less than adequate, believing there are more worthy people out there to follow. They become the followers of the good, great and heroic, self-centered, arrogant people, the great American liberals, who want only to take charge.
America began with most people thinking of themselves as good, worthy, excited about their future opportunities ahead, and saw others as equally good and excited. They had little choice, raised in a pioneer setting. They created, invented, pursued their ideas and dreams, and built great communities reflecting effort and accomplishments and resulting prosperity never known elsewhere. They left the few, who thought of themselves as a noble minority and their growing followers, behind in their dust. The nation grew from the efforts and ingenuity of the healthy ones who, for the most part, became prosperous through individual freedom. These people, the shakers and not the takers, built America.
The arrogant collected their followers and began to challenge the free and prosperous to take what they created, share enough of it with those unable to keep up, to keep their support, and enrich themselves. They grew in numbers and spread across the nation as a political party to entice those who could not and would not help themselves, until they could intervene in the private market affairs of those who preferred freedom to servitude. The takers are exceeding the givers and doers. Tax eaters are outnumbering taxpayers.
More youngsters are taking on the view that they are not as worthy as those few who profess to have great heroic leadership qualities. They are willing to follow liberals’ dictates and prescriptions for a better life, because no one tells them it could be better following their own dreams, visions and aspirations. Schools no longer teach the Horatio Alger ideals of standing on your own two feet and pursuing your own interests, skills, talents and aspirations, as long as you contribute and not harm. Instead, they teach the youngsters that community interests stand above self-interests, and those who have should give to those who have not. As more and more families are dysfunctional, depressed, and alcoholic or drugged as defenses against living life on their own feet, the numbers of children who will accept a position as worthless followers’ increases. Their view of the worthiness of self and others is so depressed they do not care about possibilities and opportunities to be worthy, happy and prosperous.
The Democrats have cornered that part of society who sees themselves as less worthy, prompted to envy the successes of others. Those who believe themselves superior, the modern American liberals, lead and feed their anger as they seek to change America to suit their beliefs and devour the Goose that lays the golden eggs. The Press, Hollywood, Television and the schools have worked hard to support these liberal views. Goodnight, America.
If raised in a healthy family, in a good environment, we learn we are good and everyone else is too. You are unique, they are unique, and you can all get along fine in society, playing, living and working together. That is a healthy view. Raised in a dysfunctional family, or bad environment, may cause us to believe we are no damn good and neither is anyone else. People with that “no damn good” view take what they can before others do. With these people, society needs defending with laws, police, courts and jails.
That still leaves two more views. Some children are led to be self-centered, arrogant, seeing self as good, great, and heroic, and everyone else as pond scum, less than worthwhile. They think others need their guidance. The last view is the child that is taught that he or she is less than adequate, believing there are more worthy people out there to follow. They become the followers of the good, great and heroic, self-centered, arrogant people, the great American liberals, who want only to take charge.
America began with most people thinking of themselves as good, worthy, excited about their future opportunities ahead, and saw others as equally good and excited. They had little choice, raised in a pioneer setting. They created, invented, pursued their ideas and dreams, and built great communities reflecting effort and accomplishments and resulting prosperity never known elsewhere. They left the few, who thought of themselves as a noble minority and their growing followers, behind in their dust. The nation grew from the efforts and ingenuity of the healthy ones who, for the most part, became prosperous through individual freedom. These people, the shakers and not the takers, built America.
The arrogant collected their followers and began to challenge the free and prosperous to take what they created, share enough of it with those unable to keep up, to keep their support, and enrich themselves. They grew in numbers and spread across the nation as a political party to entice those who could not and would not help themselves, until they could intervene in the private market affairs of those who preferred freedom to servitude. The takers are exceeding the givers and doers. Tax eaters are outnumbering taxpayers.
More youngsters are taking on the view that they are not as worthy as those few who profess to have great heroic leadership qualities. They are willing to follow liberals’ dictates and prescriptions for a better life, because no one tells them it could be better following their own dreams, visions and aspirations. Schools no longer teach the Horatio Alger ideals of standing on your own two feet and pursuing your own interests, skills, talents and aspirations, as long as you contribute and not harm. Instead, they teach the youngsters that community interests stand above self-interests, and those who have should give to those who have not. As more and more families are dysfunctional, depressed, and alcoholic or drugged as defenses against living life on their own feet, the numbers of children who will accept a position as worthless followers’ increases. Their view of the worthiness of self and others is so depressed they do not care about possibilities and opportunities to be worthy, happy and prosperous.
The Democrats have cornered that part of society who sees themselves as less worthy, prompted to envy the successes of others. Those who believe themselves superior, the modern American liberals, lead and feed their anger as they seek to change America to suit their beliefs and devour the Goose that lays the golden eggs. The Press, Hollywood, Television and the schools have worked hard to support these liberal views. Goodnight, America.