Behind the Candidates’ Smiling Faces | The American Spectator

All patriotic, civic-minded, Americans at this point in the electoral cycle have seen quite enough of our presidential aspirants on the debate stage. For a certitude, we have seen enough of the Democrats! One evening of them is enough for me.

Yet the question arises: What could possibly motivate them? Why do they call for more federal expenditures on infrastructure and healthcare and family leave, and weekends with pay or why not overtime pay? With 18 trillion in debt already amassed (at least half of it by the Prophet Obama), why do the Democratic candidates call for piling more debt on our children, the very same credulous gulls whose college tuition the Democratic candidates are promising to pay along with healthcare and personal debt reduction. When will these young dopes figure things out? It is they who are going to have to pay for the Democrats’ giveaways. What motivates these Democrats?

I have for years argued that they are motivated by a Liberal Death Wish. Their reckless foreign policy is motivated by a death wish. Their spending projects are motivated by a death wish. In foreign and in domestic policy we see the Liberals motivated by one colossal unconscious death wish. Yet perhaps that explains their psychiatric condition. What explains them at the personal level?

At the personal level they are motivated by a) the motivation of feeling good about themselves or b) the motivation of controlling others for their own enrichment.

Bernie Sanders is an example of the first type. He says he wants America to become a socialist state. He said the other night that America—a nation of 320 million souls—can be like Denmark—a cozy little nation of 5.5 million souls. By the way, Denmark is also a nation that is steadily becoming less and less socialist and more and more capitalist. Why is Denmark becoming like America? Well, I suspect the Danes, like so many people in the world today, recognize that socialism has failed.
Socialism has been failing for decades. The decrepit state of Europe with all the bankrupt welfare states is the consequence of the failure of European socialism.

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Behind the Candidates’ Smiling Faces | The American Spectator