Liberals and the Idea of Dependency

Most of us value self-sufficiency. Being able to troubleshoot a gas engine, or weld steel, or protect ourselves is important to us, and when we look out at the world’s problems, we see problems we want to fix. Liberals have exactly the opposite mindset.

Obama was denigrating Putin in a press conference:

“I didn’t see after he made that speech in the United Nations suddenly the 60-nation coalition that we have start lining up behind him. Iran and Assad make up Mr. Putin’s coalition at the moment.”

“The rest of the world makes up ours,” he continued

Putin has mopped the floor with Obama. Obama has wrecked everything he has touched in the Middle East, from Libya to Egypt. He lost Yemen without even doing anything. Our ambassador was killed, as an even more dangerous foe than Al Qaida assembled itelf right under Obama’s nose. Putin took Crimea and now he has just gone into Syria where he will stabilize the regime and totally destroy ISIS. Putin is about to make Obama look like a total tool. But none of that matters to Obama if he can in-group himself, and out-group Putin.

Later in the same press conference he attacked the NRA by saying,

“They don’t represent the majority of the American People.”

His entire position depends on whether others support him. That support is all that sustains him. It is the only way he justifies his behavior.

You have to understand that Obama, in his own autobiography, describes how the other stronger kids in Indonesia would take his soccer ball and if he objected, they’d pin him to the ground and beat on his head with rocks. As a result, from an early age, he was conditioned to not fight. Fighting led to one place – getting pinned to the ground and hit in the head with rocks.

Now, as an adult, there is no drive to go toe to toe himself. This is true in matters of physical violence, but it is also true in all other matters as well, from the intellectual to matters of principle. In Obama’s world there is no right or wrong – only what you can manipulate others into doing for your own advantage.

It even extends into the worlds of fantasy. Vox quoted a game reviewer who criticized Doom because he wished it had offered him the opportunity to form alliances with the various monsters who were hell-bent on killing him. A rabbit playing Doom felt uncomfortable just blowing evil beings away. He wanted to be able to manipulate them into fighting each other. Think about that. Realize how deeply this urge penetrates their being, and how different they are from you.

This is also why out-grouping amygdala hijacks are among the most powerful means of attacking their motivation and forcing them into retreat. They have no moral backbone, no commitment to principle, and no personal values to motivate them. They only have what they can get others to fight for on their behalf over. Take way their proxies, even just their perception of the proxies’ existence, and they will fade into the background, demoralized and dejected.