Spiritual Inconsistencies

Dear Pro-Government Liberals,

I know you call yourselves progressives and believe that you are operating at a higher level of consciousness than those “dumb Republicans”, right? I was raised by hippies, I know all the New Age ideas about how we are all empowered spirits that have the ability to create our own reality. I’m sure you love that stuff and go to all the seminars that talk about living in a higher state of consciousness. Well, I would like to challenge you to compare your “abundance and power is mine” spiritual philosophy and relate it to your political and economic views.

If spiritually you believe that the universe is entirely composed of all the love and abundance that we need (if only we made ourselves aware of it), then why do you continue to fall for political lies such as the “Two Americas” described by John Edwards. All plans for the re-distributions of wealth are ineffective and morally corrupt. People should give to the poor when they feel inspired to do so with their own resources, it should not be done through forced taxation. That is not charity. It is forced redistribution of wealth, and it is not morally the same as a spontaneous act of charity.

Another important point I wish make is: If everyone should be free to be who they are, because the gift of life “is a chance for us to live out the full expression of ourselves", why do Liberals want the government to have control over so much of our lives?

Furthermore, if you love to celebrate diversity so much, why do you want to have centralized control over education or health care? I thought diversity was good.

And why do Liberals continue to treat the government as the sole power that should control and care for us with more and more stupid programs that we may or may not want? Stop waiting for the government to bail you out or take care of you in your old age. Don’t you realize how pitiful and dehumanizing it is for the elderly to be reliant on massive government programs? It kills their sense of self worth!

Finally, there is a creepy Liberal tendency to act as if the government were a God,"our great protector". If we are ever going to move away from the big brother, big government that we have now, we have to— Liberals especially— have to stop believing that the government is a benevolent caretaker. It’s not! Regulations, taxation, and all sorts of other government controls in our lives don’t add to the health and well-being of our society. They interfere with it. Why? Because people are relinquishing power and control of their own lives to the government. When they hand the government more and more control over their lives, they are making a dangerous and frankly immature decision to pass off the responsibilities that they should be tending to on their own, and demanding that the government take care of them.

Why don’t you take your power back, take responsibility for your life and quit calling for help from the government.