When conservatism reigns, people are left alone to either succeed or fail on their own in freedom. If you don’t like the fail part, then you don’t understand the value of failure. Ray Kroc was nothing more than a mediocre paper cup salesman until he discovered and bought the restaurant from the McDonald brothers. Walt Disney failed over and over to find the right people to financially back his ideas for most of his life. Edison tried a thousand different ways to create a lightbulb before he found the right design. The common denominator to success in this country has always been freedom and a rule of law that protects individual freedom.
When leftist ideology reigns, there is no point in striving or failing. If you succeed, the fruits of your labor will be taken from you and given to those who don’t care to strive for anything beyond playing the lottery and watching American Idol and believing that anybody who has wealth must have gotten it by nefarious means. This is what produces countries like North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, Zimbabwe. Equality is celebrated and encouraged until everyone but those at the top of government have become equally miserable.
The ComPost Files – Silence is Consent
Runner-up:
Apparently, our Libyan adventure is called “Operation Odyssey Dawn” because “Operation Princess Rainbow Sparkle Pony” wasn’t manly enough. – “canadiancynic“
(*snort*)