Liberalism = Jealousy

(This is an email I sent to a radio show host today.)

Schnitt,

Several of your callers over the last few days, especially George, have heightened my understanding of liberalism. I used to think of it in terms of class warfare, but I now understand that it's even more basic than that.

It's just plain jealousy.

That person over there has something I want, and they should be forced to give it to me because I want it. I want something I don't have and they do have, so they should have to give it to me.

There is no connection for liberals between working hard and reaping the rewards of the hard work. There is no connection between coming up with a popular product or service and reaping the rewards. If you have something I don't have but I want, you should have to give it to me whether I have done anything to earn it or not.

Liberals don't understand the concepts of "responsibility" and "earn." They only understand "want" and "have."

George is such a perfect example of this. He saw no connection between having more kids than he could support at the level he wanted to support them. He thinks he should just go out and have as many kids as he wants, and then somebody else has to come in and help pay for them - even though they had no input as to the number of kids George had.

Do all careers earn what they deserve? No. As you said to the caller right before George, teachers and police officers and firefighters should make a lot more. But they don't, and if you choose to go into one of those careers you have to accept what they make. If you can't accept it, find another career, don't try to take wealth from someone else just because your career doesn't give you what you think you're worth.

Not long after accepting a job with a major corporation, I was asked to train a couple of temporary contractor workers. I came to find out that they were making a fair amount more than me, which I considered to be unfair since I knew more than they did and I was training them - seemed like I should be making the top dollar. When I mentioned this to my project lead, he said something that has stuck with me to this day:

"They made their deal with their employer. You make your deal with your employer. If they got a better deal, good for them. If you think you deserve a better deal, present your case to your employer, but don't hold it against them that you aren't getting what you deserve."

But the reason I think of it as jealousy instead of class warfare is because it goes beyond just money. Take one of the main planks in the liberal platform: abortion.

Is abortion about a woman's right to choose? No. Women have always had the right to choose to sleep with a man and risk getting pregnant (except, of course, in the case of rape).

Is abortion about "keep your laws off of my body?" No. The unborn child has a unique set of human DNA - it is not a bacterial growth, and it is not just another part of the mother's body. In the same way that a parent is not permitted to kill a unique human existance outside the womb, they have no right to kill a unique human existance inside the womb. The child is not "her body."

So what is abortion REALLY about? Women being jealous that a man can hop in the sack for a night, then walk away in the morning with no repercussions. They want that, but physiologically they can't have it. The reality is, their situation is different from a man's situation. So they're jealous of what a man has (the ability to walk away), and abortion is their means of getting what a man has, even if it means terminating another human existance to get it.

Liberalism is the refusal to acknowledge that not all things are equal or the same in this life - and there's nothing wrong with that. Some flowers are prettier than others, some mountains are taller than others, some people are smarter than others, etc. etc. etc. Yet instead of accepting reality, they try to live in a world of complete sameness.

Sad.