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*Eowyn <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/eowyn2/>* | August 19,
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Dennis Prager has an excellent article that perfectly explains why liberals
are narcissists -- a conclusion I've arrived at from experience and
observation.
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The liberal entitlement mentality
Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society's Moral
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Dennis Prager - July 19, 2011
While liberals are certain about the moral superiority of liberal policies,
the truth is that those policies actually diminish a society's moral
character. Many individual liberals are fine people, but the policies they
advocate tend to make a people worse. Here are 10 reasons:
*1. The bigger the government, the less the citizens do for one another.* If
the state will take care of me and my neighbors, why should I? This is why
Western Europeans, people who have lived in welfare states far longer than
Americans have, give less to charity and volunteer less time to others than
do Americans of the same socioeconomic status.
The greatest description of American civilization was written in the early
19th century by the Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville. One of the differences
distinguishing Americans from Europeans that he most marveled at was how
much Americans -- through myriad associations -- took care of one another.
Until President Franklin Roosevelt began the seemingly inexorable movement
of America toward the European welfare state -- vastly expanded later by
other Democratic presidents -- Americans took responsibility for one another
and for themselves far more than they do today. Churches, Rotary Clubs,
free-loan societies and other voluntary associations were ubiquitous. As the
state grew, however, all these associations declined. *In Western Europe,
they have virtually all disappeared.*
*2. The welfare state,* though often well intended, *is nevertheless a Ponzi
scheme.* Conservatives have known this for generations. But now, any honest
person must acknowledge it. The welfare state is predicated on collecting
money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before
them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and
there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare
state in Europe, and many American states, like California, are going broke.
*3. Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly
narcissistic.*The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits,
Frenchmen, Germans and
other Western Europeans are how much vacation time they will have and how
early they can retire and be supported by the state.
*4. The liberal welfare state makes people disdain work.* Americans work
considerably harder than Western Europeans, and contrary to liberal thought
since Karl Marx, work builds character.
*5. Nothing more guarantees the erosion of character than getting something
for nothing.* In the liberal welfare state, *one develops an entitlement
mentality -- another expression of narcissism.* And the rhetoric of
liberalism -- labeling each new entitlement a "right" -- reinforces this
sense of entitlement.
*6. The bigger the government, the more the corruption.* As the famous
truism goes, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
absolutely." Of course, big businesses are also often corrupt. But they are
eventually caught or go out of business. The government cannot go out of
business. And unlike corrupt governments, corrupt businesses cannot print
money and thereby devalue a nation's currency, and they cannot arrest you.
*7. The welfare state corrupts family life.* Even many Democrats have
acknowledged the destructive consequences of the welfare state on the
underclass. It has rendered vast numbers of males unnecessary to females,
who have looked to the state to support them and their children (and the
more children, the more state support) rather than to husbands. In effect,
these women took the state as their husband.
*8. The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into
responsible adults.* As regards men specifically, I was raised, as were all
generations of American men before me, to aspire to work hard in order to
marry and support a wife and children. No more. One of the reasons many
single women lament the prevalence of boy-men -- men who have not grown up
-- is that the liberal state has told men they don't have to support
anybody. They are free to remain boys for as long as they want.
And here is an example regarding both sexes. The loudest and most sustained
applause I ever heard was that of college students responding to a speech by
President Barack Obama informing them that they would now be covered by
their parents' health insurance policies until age 26.
*9.* As a result of the left's sympathetic views of pacifism and because
almost no welfare state can afford a strong military, *European countries
rely on America to fight the world's evils and even to defend them.*
*10. The leftist weltanschauung [worldview] sees society's and the world's
great battle as between rich and poor rather than between good and
evil.*Equality therefore trumps morality. This is what produces the
*morally confused* liberal elites that can venerate a Cuban tyranny with its
egalitarian society over a free and decent America that has greater
inequality.
None of this matters to progressives. Against all this destructiveness, they
will respond not with arguments to refute these consequences of the liberal
welfare state, but by citing the terms "social justice" and "compassion,"
and by labeling their opponents "selfish" and worse.
If you want to feel good, liberalism is awesome. If you want to do good, it
is largely awful.
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