Posted by
grad_1986 on Saturday, April 10, 2010 5:33:50 PM
My daughter is in her Junior year and is taking US History. They are currently discussing the Cold War and Communism. As we were talking, she asked me why do people gravitate towards this form of government which always ends in Totalitarianism. As I thought about it I said the following:
I believe in every person there are 2 basic forces at play: the desire to be FREE and the desire to be LAZY.
We all have both of these forces inside of us. Of course the desire to be FREE takes hard work, responsibility, sweat, diligence, and faith and self-control. This is what America was built on and you see this when you read about our founding fathers. How many of them were at the same time, leaders, writers, inventors, farmers, business owners and ambassadors. They spent long hard days to make their dreams of a free country come true.
On the other side are those who desire to be LAZY more than they desire to be free. They are like Esau, willing to sell their freedom for a plate of beans and to be taken care of. The lazy desire to have everything given to them ; job, money, education, healthcare, retirement rather than to work for it. Communisim is built on the backs of the LAZY and that is why it always fails as eventually the government must "whip" its LAZY subjects to make them work and these "whippings" eventually stir up their internal desire for...
FREEDOM!!