Letters to the Editor
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on Liberalism
"Liberals love victims and want them to stay helpless, so they can help them, with government programs; while conservatives love those who refuse to be victims, and get up off the canvas and fight."
The insight this sentance gives to the mindset of the writer is fascinating. It is a mindset that believes that victimhood is an eternal condition, that life is not fair, and that because life isn't fair, it's not worth trying to make it fair. It disdains the mindset that hopes to even the scales; believes instead that people who claim such hope are are self-important fakes. It is, in other words, anti-hope, because it vainly believes liberals think like it does.
Liberals, I hope I speak for all of us, don't believe that victimhood is a spectator sport, and don't justify our inaction by glorifying the occasional success stories.
This is the mindset we're up against. It doesn't actively want victims to stay helpless; it's just that it would ever lift a finger to help them.