Why Liberals Trust the System
By Anne Doherty
Years ago, conservative commentator Michael Savage wrote a book called “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.” As a controversial talk show host with a dramatic stage name (his real name is Michael Weiner), Savage seemed to take advantage of angry conservatives with nowhere to express their frustration at the Left’s highjacking of American values.
Compared to now, those were carefree, innocent times.
Today, the Left not only promotes dysphoria on every level of life - gender, the environment, and government policies - they elect and appoint individuals who can barely function.
Joe Biden clearly suffers from cognitive decline. According to the New York Times, so does California senator Diane Feinstein. Pennsylvania senator and stroke victim John Fetterman has trouble stringing words together. Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine and one time pediatrician promotes frightening health policies. Sam Brinton, a top Energy Department official in the Biden administration, has been accused for a second time of stealing luggage at a US Airport. This cross-dresser, apparently trolls expensive women’s luggage at airports even when he hasn’t been on a plane.
Then, there are less obviously debilitated officials. VP Kamala Harris speaks like a high school age pothead. Alexandria Octavio-Cortez, doing cooking spots on TikTok, can’t string an entire soundbite together without the magic of editing.
Why has liberalism gone from being a “mental disorder” to liberals voting for the mentally deranged and incompetent? Barack Obama may’ve been a front for the powerful people, but for the most part he was a good front. Well spoken and calm, he appeared presidential - most of the time, anyway. In mind numbing contrast, today’s cast of Democrat characters has trouble finding their way off stage. Why?
Of course, leaders connected by earpiece to some staff person guiding their every move are puppets for a cadre of string pullers. More importantly, though, they serve to train up the populace for what writer and former Czech Republic President, Vaclav Havel called the “post-totalitarian system.” Democrats who vote for clearly incompetent leaders must trust in something. By trusting in a government system that somehow or other has their backs - by protecting abortion or offering free college or whatever- they don’t need leaders. Just as these voters shun responsibility for their own actions (hence the need for social safety nets), they don’t demand their leaders be responsible. Liberals trust the system, and that ultimately is the cause of the mental disorder.
According to Havel: ”The post-totalitarian system touches people at every step, but it does so with its ideological gloves on. This is why life in the system is so thoroughly permeated with hypocrisy and lies: government by bureaucracy is called popular government; the working class is enslaved in the name of the working class; the complete degradation of the individual is presented as his ultimate liberation; depriving people of information is called making it available; the use of power to manipulate is called the public control of power, and the arbitrary abuse of power is called observing the legal code; the repression of culture is called its development; the expansion of imperial influence is presented as support for the oppressed; the lack of free expression becomes the highest form of freedom; farcical elections become the highest form of democracy; banning independent thought becomes the most scientific of world views; military occupation becomes fraternal assistance. Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. It falsifies statistics. It pretends not to possess an omnipotent and unprincipled police apparatus. It pretends to respect human rights. It pretends to persecute no one. It pretends to fear nothing. It pretends to pretend nothing.”
Because the seeming security offered by the system means so much to Liberals, they are willing to deny what they see with their own eyes. Some do so unwittingly; these victims of mass hypnosis actually buy in to propaganda. Some do so simply not to rock the boat. Some see opportunity in exploiting the system.
According to Havel, “Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfill the system, make the system, are the system.”
Because Liberals are the system, they willingly vote for incompetent leaders and against competent ones, like Trump - or even Dr. Oz, for that matter, when compared to Fetterman — because the competent ones threaten to destroy the system. In fact, the more incompetent the leader, the more proof that this all powerful system exists and that the voter can gain security from being part of it.
Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.