Liberals Ain't Really Liberal

Just why do you suppose Liberals like government being in charge of everything. It seems rather counter intuitive to the name Liberal. With a name like Liberal you would expect them to be for each person looking after their own affairs. You wouldn’t expect a liberal individual to want to force their ideas on another person. You would expect a Liberal to want everyone to choose their own path. And yet that is not the case.

Liberals want you to be able to choose your own way as long as it’s their way, and to insure that it’s their way they want an all powerful government to enforce their choice on you.

For example, if you choose not to own a gun, a Conservative does not want the government to force you to own one. On the other hand if a Liberal doesn’t want to own a gun, he thinks you shouldn't own one either and thus wants the government to keep you from it.

A liberal wants a woman to choose her own path in life, but if a woman chooses to be something they disagree with, they ridicule and make life hard for them. You would think that they would support a woman who wants to be a housewife or an exotic dancer or a Hooters waitress if that’s what they wanted, but no. Only prescribed choices are acceptable to a Liberal. (I must also say that many conservatives would be against a woman being an exotic dancer or a Hooters waitress also.)

Being a conservative libertarian, I might not think that a woman being an exotic dancer or a Hooters waitress was their best life choice, I firmly support their right to choose it.

I seem to have gotten off on a tangent here, but the point is the same. Liberals want government to be in charge of everything and they want to be in charge of the government. They want it this way because they believe that we, the unwashed masses are not smart enough to know what’s best for us. They feel that they should make life’s choices for us so we don’t go making mistakes like owning guns or smoking or eating the wrong foods or any of a thousand other things. When government is in charge and they are in charge of the government they can legislate every facet of our life. That is why Liberals are in favor of big government.

I submit to you that Liberals/Progressives are the antithesis of their names. They have hijacked the name away from it’s meaning. Just as the Bolsheviks grabbed the name which means the larger or greater party when in fact they were the minority party during the Russian revolution, leaving the majority with the diminutive name of Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks then proceeded to take over the government and order how everyone was to live.

Hummm, do I see a pattern???