Or instead do these creatures find solace in superficial familiarity with catastrophically failed collectivist theories, such as those found in The Communist Manifesto?

Nobel laureate F.A. von Hayek once observed that there appeared to be good reason for average people – who tend reliably to be culturally conservative – to adhere to traditional standards, practices, and values if for no other reason than that these generally have withstood “trial by fire” in various kinds of upset and dislocation.

The principle of least effort (a robust biological imperative) dictates that people with a great deal of “hands-on” experience in the living of life will stick with guidances that have been proven in practice, and are less susceptible to seductively-couched fraudulences that fly in the face of practical experience and common sense.

The “Liberal,” being a denizen of cloud-cuckoo land, tends to lack such practical experience in the living of life, and without such schooling is sadly susceptible to the sorts of idiocies by which he is commonly (and catastrophically) “politically manipulated to do things against [everyone's] best interest by the use of scapegoating and lies.”

Like all other pathologies, the disease of statism can only be examined with a certain dread fascination. Sick sonzabitches, you people, no?
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