It’s Socialism,
Baby!
Kids grow
up protected by their parents, and then they want to continue being protected
by their government. If they’re fortunate, their parents were loving guardians,
they likewise want to believe that their government will take care of them and
love them.
Their
parents made sure they were fed, clothed, housed and entertained. The food was
free. The clothes were free. The rent was free. The pastimes and pleasures they
partook of were free. Free is the only world they know.
Their parents kept them
cool in the summer, warm in the winter. They softened the harsh winds of life
that pounded and pummeled them in the lifeboat that kept them afloat from
drowning in the flood of sorrow and tears.
Life in the family was a socialist
paradise and they want this lifestyle to continue all life-long. Just like their
parents protected them and provided everything free for them, they want the
government to take the place of their parents and continue protecting them and
providing everything free for them.
As they
grow up they should want to be independent and stand on their own two feet and
face the strange and unfamiliar world that surrounds them and not want to
continue in their dependence either to their parents or to their government.
They
are afraid to fend for themselves; they need Big Government to look out after them,
just like Mom and Dad did when they were kids. Risks and uncertainty are all
around and they must make decisions; they would much rather have Big Government
make those hard and challenging decisions for them.
Just like they looked up to
their parents, now they look up to their Big Leaders. Big Government will
protect them from all those big, bad bullies who call them names and hurt their
feelings.
When they
fell down and scraped their knee, they ran to Mom to make things right, kiss their
boo-boo and send them off to play. They want their security blanket; they
mistakenly think it is socialism.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio, Texas
