Political activism: Control by sympathy
This is a very enlightening look at “entitlement” programs and other hand-outs:
Sympathy is not compassion and it is not understanding. Tap a tuning fork and place it near a stringed instrument and the instrument picks up the vibration of the tuning fork. Sympathy is a feeling, an emotion, that is largely un-analytical or irrational. A sympathizing person gets into sympathy mode with someone who appears “down” or “below” where the sympathizer is, in other words someone who is surviving more poorly than the sympathizer. Sympathy gives the hungry man a fish and very specifically does NOT teach him to fish. Sympathy drops to the level of the object of its pity and harmonizes. Sympathy feels warm and fuzzy about sympathizing. Sympathy feeds on the feeling it gets.
Sympathy will nail the recipient to the spot where they were when they received the sympathy. Whether it is a child who gets sick or injured or a group that is given things it has not earned. Sympathy may make the sympathizer feel self-righteous but it tells the recipient that he or she is effect, is not capable of handling their own life, and Sympathy will wonder off, sooner or later, leaving the pitiable to starve while Sympathy finds a new target. It is the design of welfare to keep the recipient where they are.
During the 1960’s it seemed odd to see the Democratic Party made up of the States Rights, segregationist guys and the self-professed liberal Civil Rights protesting guys. But not really odd. Malcolm X said that the greatest enemy of the black man was the white liberal. (This was before his pilgrimage to Mecca where he got the dangerous notion that race may not be the culprit.) The racist white guy, said Malcolm, would tell you directly what he thought and would directly oppose you. The white liberal would smile and pretend to be your friend. The truth and the point of the civil rights movement was simply stated by Dr King as “I am a Man.” The truth was told. Treat each individual with the same Constitutional Rights. Simple and clean. It was always a matter of individual, not group, rights that were violated. But after Dr. King made his point so eloquently, the political posturing began and has continued to this day. The sympathizing political activists went to work and made it an issue of Race, which it never was, and pinned down an entire race using entitlements, convincing a whole class of Americans, on a daily basis, that they could not do it on their own, they are effect, not cause, and they need to be a mob and have a gang to represent them.
Welfare and other entitlements serve no other purpose than to keep the target group where they are, fixated by dependency and convinced of their own powerlessness. The self-styled liberal accomplished what the hate filled racist couldn’t - kept an entire group of Americans out of the picture while at the same time justifying their perpetual complaint of racism, continuously blaming others for the obvious bad results of entitlements by saying there isn’t enough! Again, Those Who Create Conflict - the political activist - creates hate and misdirects attention, keeping groups at odds, one-against-the-other, in true form of those who destroy cultures and civilizations.
A compassionate person helps. They go A-to-B in a straight line. They usually help individuals. Remember, you are an individual, not a group. The political activist creates anger and hate based on group conflict and may collect money to hire lawyers or elect politicians to make laws to take the money of others to make programs that sound like help but aren’t, the end product of which is richer lawyers, more powerful politicians, bigger government, more highly paid, non-productive bureaucrats handing out a fraction of the cost of the program to the recipients who must stay in their place,or actually lower their quality of life, in order to qualify for the handouts that the giver has convinced them they cannot do without. It is an evil system, more so than the system it pretends to treat.
The ex-slaves have been successfully re-enslaved by the welfare system. They are convinced of their dependency on it and their own powerlessness in the face of an enemy who their own leaders have convinced them is greater than they are. What kind of leadership persistently convinces those who it leads that they are incapable on their own?
Americans must say to those who create conflict and to those who support entitlements: Let the people go. So-called black leaders have kept “their people” in the most powerful chains of all: The chains of dependency contained in their own minds. Metal chains are not so cruel, as they can be seen and the bearer knows the injustice he is subject to. The chains of the individual’s own mind are far stronger because they make the world appear as a prison when there is none. Those who create conflict are those who create those mental chains. They are the authoritarian, ideological indoctrinators, the propagandists preaching from the media pulpit, the political pontificators and presidential poseurs.
Those who demand and evoke pity and sympathy, bringing down those around them with the aspect of victimhood, are another story.
