The Tables start to turn slowly now

Well now we have Barney Franks back peddling on this plans for everyone in American owning a home. Now he's talking about builder's who are erecting affordable housing you can rent instead. The architect of the sub-prime loan debacle is now telling everyone that if they dream of a home maybe they should pinch themselves and keep renting.
Wow, what a turn of thinking for the ONE who created this mess to start with. By the way, Barney Franks is still not accepting any blame for his part in this, the greatest theft of American wealth in the 233 year history of this country. He should be put our of office and tried as a common criminal.

I recently read an article that explains the frame of mind of most every liberal's I've ever had the chance to encounter. I'll try to summarize for you as follows.

Excerpts taken from author Christopher Chantrill

They live, as Charles Taylor would say in his Secular Age, in the Age of Authenticity. They are "expressive individualists." Here is what he means.

I mean the understanding of life which emerges with the Romantic expressivism of the late-eighteenth century, that each one of us has his/her own way of realizing our humanity, and that it is important to find and live out one's own, as opposed to surrendering to conformity with a model imposed on us from outside, by society, or the previous generation, or religious or political authority.

Charles Taylor echoes the injunction of Joseph Campbell to "follow your bliss " or, more crudely, "do your own thing."

Everyone on TV is living the Age of Authenticity. They are acting the part of the Romantic expressivist, going their own way, far above the pedestrian conformist.

When the Sixties came along, the newly educated baby boomer's turned authenticity into a mass phenomenon, society as we know it turned a corner. Authentic individualism is one thing when it's practiced by a rich elite. Who cares if a bunch of rich kids burn up their lives on the off-chance that they could be the next Warhol or Scorsese? But when millions of people do it, we have a problem.

It's a problem because 97.2 percent of artists don't make money at it. It's not surprising. When you follow your bliss, chances are you won't be adding to anyone else's bliss soon, that means it's not likely that anyone will want to pay you. Will your parent's be willing to provide what Stanley and Danko in The Millionaire Next Door call, "economic outpatient care." I don't think they will.

People have a canny way of figuring out how to make ends meet. The authentic expressivists are no different. If people won't pony up the money to support their creative projects voluntarily, then the only sensible thing to do is to force them. Government should provide grants and funding to creative people: it's only simple justice, or so they think.

All sorts of things about our age start to make sense when you get inside the head of the authentic expressivist. Abortion, ie. You can't allow an unexpected pregnancy to divert you from your bliss. You can't expect someone to soldier on in an uninspiring marriage, they could be following their bliss with someone more compatible. You can't really expect someone to pay for their kid's health care if they could get S-CHIP and then spend the savings on their creative development.

Do you see now why liberals hate conservatives with such a passion? Why liberals scorn the warrior ethic, the faithful spouse ethic, the volunteer ethic, the pro-life ethic, the natalist ethic? Conservatives think that, while the creative life is a wonderful thing, it ought to be kept in perspective. Children come first. Entrée comes before dessert. Do the right thing, not the easy thing. To the authentic expressivist, that is intolerable.

Now you understand why the Democrats and their bribed apologists in the main stream media were so quick to sneer at the Tea Party-ers. Limited government, lower taxes, reduced spending and all that are like a stake through the heart of the Age of Authenticity.
The authentic people on TV are the commercial for the authentic life. But in the small print, it says that someone has to pay for all that authenticity, that someone is you, Mr. Conservative America.

You must pay for their mortgage's, their automobile's, their food, their health care, their education, their continuing listless meandering in life until you die. This is their lasting cry, make them pay, make them suffer as I should but won't because I have learned how to use government to take your money for myself and I'm not going to stop!