Time, experience, and maturity have led me to conclude that it is better to be in control of your own destiny than to have it dictated to you.  If you control your own destiny, then you reap the rewards of your hard work and of your mistakes.
But what if you are afraid to control your own destiny?  What if you have such low self-confidence that you believe it isn’t worth it to even try, that a Steve Jobs is the exception rather than the rule?
The Creation of The Liberal
Think about the people you know who have low self-esteem.  We’ll call that person The Patient. The Patient does not see value in himself.  He does not consider himself worthy of advancement, of self-transcendence, or self-actualization.  Instead, The Patient believes he is a bad person, undeserving of success, love, wealth, or happiness.  He comes to believe, therefore, that any effort he exerts on his own behalf is doomed to fail because he is such a bad person and does not deserve any success.
But there is this tiny little voice — the ego — that just won’t stand for this self-flagellation.  So the ego projects The Patient’s self-hate onto The Other as a defense mechanism.  They project the self-hate onto the person who is happy, wealthy, successful, and loved.  Now, it is The Other who becomes the object of hate.  “Why should he have everything?  What has he done to deserve all this?  I’m not the bad person, he is.”   As a friend’s Facebook quote said just today, “Haters don’t really hate you, they hate themselves because you are a reflection of what they wish to be.”
Then, as the pathology deepens, the projection distorts further.  Now The Other is actually the cause of The Patient’s unhappiness because The Patient’s ego refuses to accept the truth that The Patient himself is the cause of his own unhappiness.  Blame cannot be taken!  The Patient becomes The Victim.  The Other is demonized — literally transformed into a demon, an evil entity.   The Other is called names.  The Other is dehumanized.   The Patient now self-righteously, and in the name of all that is good and just, actively seeks to destroy The Other.   To punish It.  To take away what It has by force.  Because by destroying The Other, The Patient believes the source of their suffering will be removed.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Liberal.

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