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| Everyone knows Democrats hate America as founded. |
However, once the government changes
its emphasis from protecting citizens from force to initiating force with laws
and taxes, those social mores break down. Peer pressure, social approbation and
moral opprobrium, the forces that keep a healthy society orderly, are replaced
by regulations enforced by cops and funded by taxes. Sociopaths sense this,
start coming out of the woodwork and are drawn to the State and its
bureaucracies and regulatory agencies, where they can get licensed and paid to
do what they've always wanted to do.
It's very simple, really. There are
two ways people can relate to each other: voluntarily or coercively. The
government is pure coercion, and sociopaths are drawn to its power and force.
The majority of Americans will
accept the situation for two reasons: One, they have no philosophical anchor to
keep them from being washed up onto the rocks. They no longer have any real
core beliefs, and most of their opinions – e.g., "We need national health
care," "Our brave troops should fight evil over there so we don't
have to fight it over here," "The rich should pay their fair
share" – are reactive and comforting.
The whole point of spin doctors is
to produce comforting sound bites that elude testing against reality. And, two,
they've become too pampered and comfortable, a nation of overfed losers, mooches
and coasters who like the status quo without wondering how long it can possibly
last.
It's nonsensical to blather about
the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave when reality TV and Wal-Mart
riots are much closer to the truth. The majority of Americans are, of
course, where the rot originates – the presidential candidates are spending
millions taking their pulse in surveys and polls and then regurgitating to them
what they seem to want to hear.
Once a country buys into the idea
that an above-average, privileged lifestyle is everyone's minimum due, when the
fortunate few can lobby for special deals to rake something off the table as
they squeeze wealth out of others by force, that country is on the decline.
Lobbying and taxation rather than
production and innovation have never been able to sustain prosperity. The
wealth being squeezed took centuries to produce, but it is not inexhaustible.
In that light, it was interesting to
hear Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, speak about the
lower, middle and upper classes recently. Romney is an empty suit, only
marginally better than the last Republican nominee, the hostile and mildly
demented John McCain.
In any event, Romney is right about
the poor, in a way – there is a "safety net," now holding 50 million
people on Medicaid and 46 million on food stamps, among many other supposed
benefits. And he's right about the rich; there's no need to worry about them at
the moment – at least until the revolution starts. He claims to worry about the
middle class, not that his worries will do anything to help them. But he's
right that the middle class is where the problem lies. It's just a different
kind of problem than he thinks.
People generally fall into an
economic class because of their psychology and their values. Each of the three
classes has a characteristic psychological profile. For the lower class, it's
apathy. They have nothing, they're ground down and they don't really care.
They're not in the game, and they aren't going to do anything; they're resigned
to their fate.
For the upper class, it's greed and
arrogance. They have everything, and they think they deserve it – whether they
do or not.
The middle class – at least in
today's world – is run by fear. Fear that they're only a paycheck away from falling
into the lower class. Fear that they can't pay their debts or borrow more. Fear
that they don't have a realistic prospect of improving themselves.
The problem is that fear is a
negative, dangerous and potentially explosive emotion. It can easily morph into
anger and violence. Exactly where it will lead is unpredictable, but it's not a
good place. One thing that exacerbates the situation is that all three classes
now rely on the government, albeit in different ways. Bankruptcy of the
government will affect them all drastically.
With sociopaths in charge, we could
very well see the Milgram experiment reenacted on a national scale. In the
experiment, you may recall, researchers asked members of the public to torture
subjects (who, unbeknownst to the people being recruited, were paid actors)
with electric shocks, all the way up to what they believed were lethal doses.
Most of them did as asked, after being assured that it was "alright"
and "necessary" by men in authority.
[Ed. Note: TSA, ATF, DEA, EPA, IRS, State seat belt law commercials, and even your local condo/block association anybody? The only government agency not actively working to be in your business 24/7 is the INS and Voter Verification Unit. Oh, that's right. We don't have the last one.]
[Ed. Note: TSA, ATF, DEA, EPA, IRS, State seat belt law commercials, and even your local condo/block association anybody? The only government agency not actively working to be in your business 24/7 is the INS and Voter Verification Unit. Oh, that's right. We don't have the last one.]
The men in authority today are
mostly sociopaths.
