Naive Liberals

Article author: 
Jeffrey Folks
Article publisher: 
American Thinker
Article date: 
19 February 2025
Article category: 
Our American Future
Medium
Article Body: 

We do not live in an entirely peaceful or civilized world. Conservatives realize that fact and wish to prepare for the worst by strengthening our military... and ensuring economic prosperity. In contrast, liberals live in a fantasy land, in which everyone is presumed to be “nice” and no other nation wishes to harm us...

The question is how we respond to the realities of war, genocide, and economic depression...

Liberals - and I would include Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden -  respond to the world’s evil by turning away and doing nothing...

... The only way to prevent another global war is for the U.S. to maintain a decisive advantage over our adversaries, something we lost under Obama and Biden. Fortunately, President Trump understands this reality and has proposed a $58-billion increase in defense spending along with increases in NATO and Japanese spending on defense...

Whether it is defense, inflation, immigration, fentanyl importation, or violent crime, liberals take a “soft” approach that turns its back on the problem and fails to protect us from harm. Liberals do not even admit that radical Islam is a problem...

The heart of the matter is the naïveté ofliberal thinking and the weakness of character associated with it...

Liberals are protesting any spending cuts, including cuts in DIE, USAID, and education. But, as is always the case, they refuse to recognize the problems. The U.S. is on a course toward  bankruptcy and defeat. The time has come to face the problems and take decisive action.

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