The election in Germany has piqued my oft-repeated salient warning to Canadians—including Canadian corporations—who are willingly getting sucked into the vacuum of the Godless liberal-left nanny-state socialism, where government replaces God, and where the exercise of one’s good and positive ambition is replaced by a dreadful waiting line for sundry state-given entitlements. This is courtesy of successive federal and provincial Liberal Party governments, NDP governments, and even Progressive Conservative governments (owing to the “progressive” elements contained therein—take Belinda Stronach…).
John Fund of the Wall Street Journal’s OpinionJournal.com sums it up in his latest column there about the German elections just held:
[…] The late economist Mancur Olson argued that the downfall of democracy would be its tendency to calcify into special-interest gridlock. Germany’s extensive welfare state has created millions of voters who fear the loss of any benefits. Combine that with voters in eastern Germany who cling to outmoded notions of state support and you have an formidable challenge to bring about real reform.
“The lesson for America is do not go down the road as far as Germany has,” says Horst Schakat, a German who created a series of successful businesses in California for 30 years but retired to his native land in 2001. “You may find yourself unable to go down a different but correct path once too many people have become dependent on the state.”
In Germany as here, left to their own devices, people would all become socialists. Half the country would stay in bed until noon if not for some form of impetus from someone or something.
I think it’s just human nature—inherent laziness—that it takes external stimulus like political leadership and guidance to remind people of what is ultimately the more generally beneficial path for them and their nation, and to avoid what appears, deceptively, to be the easy path—the welfare state, and socialism. One of the problems is of course that socialism begets more socialism—and yet naturally the liberal-left sees this negative cyclical attribute as a plus—a benefit.
Luckily I think it’s really rather easy to break the cycle, as Ronald Reagan so convincingly did—you just have to actually do it. You have to have leaders with that good clear vision, guts, and a good simple delivery. Someone who can bring out the positive right in people. Their better side, their ambition, their drive, their potential, and their virtues. Someone or a group of people with a good positive message. Ideas. Values. Unlike what we’ve seen in Germany or as we’ve seen in Canada for many years, or in Denmark or the Netherlands or much of Europe.
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