Voting Our Pride

Pride is one of the deadly sins. In an earlier post I referenced how voters vote their vices instead of voting for liberty.

Millions of African Americans voted with their pride and voted for Barack Obama. If I was black I would have voted for Obama.

But this vote of pride is not a vote for liberty. It is a vote that will make the government more intrusive and powerful. Power corrupts. Don't expect President Obama to eliminate the Patriot Act or reduce the size of the Federal Government.

African Americans fail to realize that tyrants have never let skin color interfere with their narcissist and Machiavellian personality. White, black, and brown tyrants, with their flowering oratories and metaphoric platitudes, have ensnared worshippers throughout history, only to turn on the tyrant's worshippers when the tyrant's power is challenged.

Barack Obama has my admiration and respect for using his natural resources to achieve such a lofty goal. Barack Obama will not only be the President of the US, some in other countries want him to be their president. ("What an inspiration. He is the first truly global U.S. president the world has ever had," said Pracha Kanjananont, a 29-year-old Thai sitting at a Starbuck's in Bangkok. "He had an Asian childhood, African parentage and has a Middle Eastern name. He is a truly global president.") This power will corrupt President Obama. Worse, it will corrupt his staff and hanger-ons, who will bathe in the power and the glory.

The worst rise to the top. http://jim.com/hayek.htm Hayek said when the ends justify the means, or the goal is for the greater good, the welfare of the group eliminates individual goodness, or evil, as long as the greater good for the group is the goal. This is why I say in my profile that people will operate with good or evil. It just depends on their environment. Watch for Obama to justify any encroachment of your liberty as, "It is for the greater good".

Charles Tolleson