They fear conservatives, because they fear all the possibilities free people would have available to them.
They don’t trust free people, because they don’t trust themselves.
You hit the nail right on the head. That's why you've had to put up with "the paranoid style in American governance" for so long. The "style" that pegs ordinary law-abiding Americans as "domestic terrorists," to name one obvious example.
Are they liars, or are they psychotic? It's a question that needs to be asked. Unfortunately, either answer doesn't bode much that's good for you.
Thanks,
If you haven’t read this:
well,
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline
Book Description
Publication Date: June 1997
In this New York Times bestselling book, Robert H. Bork, our country’s most distinguished conservative scholar, offers a prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a nation in such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling: a nation that slouches not towards the Bethlehem envisioned by the poet Yeats in 1919, but towards Gomorrah.
Slouching Towards Gomorrah is a penetrating, devastatingly insightful exposé of a country in crisis at the end of the millennium, where the rise of modern liberalism, which stresses the dual forces of radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification), has undermined our culture, our intellect, and our morality.
Robert H. Bork sounds a very sobering alarm. We can accept our fate and try to insulate ourselves from the effects of a degenerating culture, or we can choose to halt the beast, to oppose modern liberalism in every arena. In the view of Robert Bork, an understanding of our problem and the will to resist may be our only hope.
It’s a very tough read, but well worth it.
I also just found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it63-29VrXU
Viewing it now.