LIBERALISM SUCKS

Mention mandate, directive, or requirement and many progressive liberals have a Pavlovian reaction, they salivate and some even drool. 

What is it that causes them have this apparently irresistible and neurotic desire for centralized government control?

Conversely, mention self reliance (especially self defense), or self determination and many liberals will visibly bristle.  Their emotional reaction to such a notion is consistent with someone who perceives a personal threat.

Why is it that progressive liberals so strongly favor a tightly controlled population?  Why are liberals such central control freaks?

One possible reason is that progressives and liberals are “order freaks”.

Liberals and progressives may be suffering from Ataxophobia, the fear of disorder. 

For them society is much too chaotic, much too disorderly.  A chaotic society is more difficult to understand, perhaps impossible to understand.  The chaos of free capitalism is a fearsome thing for them.  The order of Marxism, Communism, or Socialism (even Fascism) is far less fearsome.  Thus it is much easier to comprehend and understand.

Never mind that these systems never seem to function as planned.  Never mind that such concentrated power inevitably becomes dictatorial and even brutal and murderous.  Never mind that personal freedom and individual rights are usually sacrificed for some notion of a “common good”.  The liberal/progressive mind has such a neurotic fear of chaos that none of these horrible side effects seem to matter.

The choice is one of almost pure emotion, a knee-jerk reaction to the fear of chaos and disorder.  Logical arguments, like the history of concentrated government power are simply ignored.  Liberals are so afraid of chaos and unpredictability that they are virtually blind to the threat of big government tyranny.

Liberals often cite the fallibility of human beings, the fact that capitalism is driven by greed, and that greed and ambition often drive people to exploit and abuse others.  But they seem oblivious to the fact that strong authoritarian statist systems suffer from the same human fallibilities.  The same humans who run big corporations also run big governments.  To varying degrees, a lot of the same greed and ambition drives all of these people.

It can be argued that when comparing political leaders to corporate leaders, corporations are considerably better at attracting talent.  Corporations are somewhat less likely to attract the corrupt, and corporations considerably better at attracting natural leaders.

There is a reason why we strive to distribute authority, and why we try to create systems with checks and balances.  This is because we recognize that humans are imperfect, and that absolute power corrupts absolutely.

The fear of chaos and disorder is emotional and irrational, and it leads people toward the false security of big government tyranny.