Why Unhappy People Become Liberals
Time, experience, and maturity have led me to conclude that it is better to
be in control of your own destiny than to have it dictated to you. If you
control your own destiny, then you reap the rewards of your hard work and of
your mistakes.
But what if you are afraid to control your own destiny? What if you have
such low self-confidence that you believe it isn’t worth it to even try, that a
Steve Jobs is the exception rather than the rule?
The Creation of The Liberal
Think about the people you know who have low self-esteem. We’ll call that
person The Patient. The Patient does not see value in himself. He does not
consider himself worthy of advancement, of self-transcendence, or
self-actualization. Instead, The Patient believes he is a bad person,
undeserving of success, love, wealth, or happiness. He comes to believe,
therefore, that any effort he exerts on his own behalf is doomed to fail because
he is such a bad person and does not deserve any success.
But there is this tiny little voice — the ego — that just won’t stand for
this self-flagellation. So the ego projects The Patient’s self-hate onto The Other as a defense
mechanism. They project
the self-hate onto the person who is happy, wealthy, successful, and
loved. Now, it is The Other who becomes the object of hate. “Why should
he have everything? What has he done to deserve all this?
I’m not the bad person, he is.” As a friend’s Facebook quote said
just today, “Haters don’t really hate you, they hate themselves because you are
a reflection of what they wish to be.”
Then, as the pathology deepens, the projection distorts further. Now The
Other is actually the cause of The Patient’s unhappiness because The
Patient’s ego refuses to accept the truth that The Patient himself is the cause
of his own unhappiness. Blame cannot be taken! The Patient becomes The
Victim. The Other is demonized — literally transformed into a demon, an evil
entity. The Other is called names. The Other is dehumanized. The Patient
now self-righteously, and in the name of all that is good and just, actively
seeks to destroy The Other. To punish It. To take away what It has by force.
Because by destroying The Other, The Patient believes the source of their
suffering will be removed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Liberal.
Unhappy people become Liberals. People seek out those that are similar. Birds of a feather flock together. An unhappy person looks around and sees two groups: happy people, and unhappy people. Rather than take a page out of the former group, enter the herd and ask for (and likely receive) help and guidance on how to become happy, the person is more likely to choose the path of least resistance — of instant acceptance. “Come to Mumsy, darling, you’re one of us.” And once in the herd, it becomes very, very difficult to leave it.
The Liberal, of course, will deny this pathology. No, they say, they are only trying to make things fair. Liberals are consumed with fixing the world. By eliminating what is unfair, by eliminating the evil banks and the greedy corporations, all the little people will receive what is rightfully theirs! (Subconsciously, then, nobody will be more successful than they are.) So twisted with hate, and so convinced of their own inefficacy, they cannot even rely on themselves to overthrow The Other. They hand over their own power to a third party — the government — to do their dirty work in the form of the confiscatory process of increased taxation and regulation.
Liberals, however, have got it turned around. They seek to heal the world before healing themselves first. They see this as somehow noble, great sacrifice. Well, it’s easy to make a sacrifice when you regard yourself as valueless. Beyond this, however, every major religion, and the mythology across almost every culture, instructs man to take care of himself first, and then attempt to heal the world.
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