Are you among the many Americans not surprised by the recent election results?
After all, you’ve been fed up for years with all the lazy, self-centered, whining, entitlement-minded young people in our country. You knew that at some point, these malcontents would eventually find their way to the polls and elect a leader fitting their mentality.
Well, now there’s a book that proves you were correct in your suspicions, expressing the very thoughts that have been echoing in your mind.
It’s called “Born Liberal, Raised Right: How to Rescue America from Moral Decline – One Family at a Time,” and it’s the latest release from WND Books.
Its author, Reb Bradley,
an expert on child rearing, says Rush Limbaugh is right about liberals
– they are turning America into a nation of victims, dependent,
covetous and incapable of the kind of self-government the nation’s
founding fathers envisioned.
Author of the previous best-selling book, “Child Training Tips,” Bradley recalls listening to Limbaugh more than a decade ago and having
an epiphany about the societal impact of permissive and indulgent
parenting.
“I noticed that all of the societal ills Rush talked about were
really manifestations of people who really never grew up – never
matured,” he explains. “Ultimately, that is what the worldview of
liberalism is all about. And we won’t escape its dire ill effects until
we learn how to parent.”
America is increasingly lacking in-self control, explains Bradley.
He says adults no longer restrain themselves from destructive actions
and behaviors, because they have not been taught to do so as children.
“A few decades ago, people were just as human as we are in this
decade,” he writes. “Like us, they got angry, they lusted, they
coveted, and they drowned their grief by one means or another. But in
one important way, they were different from us – they had greater
self-control. Because they were more self-restraining, they did not
allow themselves to be ruled by their anger; hence the murder rate was
markedly less. They lusted, but they had greater sexual self-restraint,
so had sexual contact with fewer people and contracted fewer STDs. They
coveted other people’s money and possessions, but they had the ability
to not act on their covetousness; hence fewer were compelled to steal.
In the last 40 years we have lost the virtue of self-control. No longer
is our society populated by individuals who can restrain or ‘govern’
themselves. To lack the capacity to control one’s urges or passions is
to lack what our nation’s Founders called personal ‘self-government.'”
Bradley contends that liberalism is the natural condition of the
human heart and for people to be capable of self-government, they must
be trained against their own nature.
“In this age of technology, one might say that liberalism is our
‘default’ operating condition,” he writes. “Throughout our childhoods,
our parents must work hard and change our settings to keep us from
operating in our default mode. If parents are successful, we enter
adulthood with our new settings fully locked in. Left untrained, all
children would grow up liberal in their outlook.”
Listening to Rush Limbaugh describe what he saw as the traits of
liberals led parenting expert Bradley to his conclusions that liberals
were, in effect, children who never really grew up.
“Liberals are merely inadequately trained children who grew up and
now lead using principles they gleaned from their upbringing,” he says.
All people are born liberal, Bradley writes, meaning they are ruled first by their emotions and passions.
“We come into the world determined to survive, and we vehemently
express ourselves to get what we need: ‘Waaa!’ and Momma feeds us,” he
writes. “‘Waaa!’ and our diaper is changed’ ‘Waaa!’ and we are put down
for a nap. As infants, our strong will can keep us comfortable and
alive – the more outspoken we are, the more our needs are met. However,
as we start to grow, we no longer cry for our necessities – we crave
pleasure, too.”
These ideas are not really new, explains Bradley. They are just in
need of rediscovery. He points out that in 1926, Minnesota Gov.
Theodore Christianson established a state crime commission. At the end
of its research, the commission concluded that criminal tendencies were
not the result of poverty, education or environment. Instead, it made
the following observation: “Every baby starts life as a little savage.
He is completely selfish and self-centered, he wants what he wants when
he wants it: his bottle, his mother’s attention, his playmate’s toys,
his uncle’s watch, or whatever. Deny him these and he seethes with rage
and aggressiveness which would be murderous were he not so helpless.
He’s dirty, he has no morals, no knowledge, no developed skills. This
means that all children, not just certain children but all children,
are born delinquent. If permitted to continue in their self-centered
world of infancy, given free rein to their impulsive actions to satisfy
each want, every child would grow up a criminal, a thief, a killer, a
rapist.”
Bottom line?
“Liberals are like teenagers whose will-to-be-gratified was never
subdued, and now cannot grasp the simple logic of what is being said to
them,” Bradley writes. “They are so emotionally obsessed with getting
what their hearts want that they are unwilling to listen to reason.
That is why liberals resort to personal attacks, name-calling,
accusing, yelling, discrediting, or changing the subject. And that is
why they use inflammatory and emotionally charged words like
‘intolerant,’ ‘hateful’ and ‘racist.’ Desperation ensues when passion
rules. When passion rules, blindness sets in.”
As a result, Bradley says “America is being governed by adults still in their terrible twos.”
“Barack Obama is our King Saul,” Bradley continues. “Like Saul, he
has fooled people on a base, emotional level. And when people can’t see
beyond their emotions, they are immature and incapable of the kind of
self-government that has been the bedrock of America’s freedom for the
last two centuries.”
To interview Reb Bradley, contact Sandy Frazier by e-mail
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