"The land of the bland"
That seems to be the result - whether intentional or not - of liberal leadership. In fact if you examine any socialist regime, you will always find less - not more - creativity; inspiration; beauty;hope for a future; thrift; work and less willingness to do that work.
Diminishing liberty devolves a nation from "the land of the free and the home of the brave!" to "the land of the bland".
This is evident in political-correctness-run-amok which has virtually eliminated reason and emasculated our conversations, rendering them colorless and. . . . bland.
The beauty of art has been reduced to a gray ghetto of self-expression in which political statements - and liberal ones at that - are the only ones acceptable. So art can be "shocking", "controversial", "cutting edge" ... but seldom "beautiful".
Because so much emphasis is placed on the "funding" of art by the state, we have begun to believe that to be authentic, art must be government sponsored. This allows "separation of church and state" arguments to remove the source of most art that is considered timeless - that art that reveals or expresses worship of God.
Have you viewed any contemporary art - considered acceptable to the masses - that has moved you toward anything . . . . but repulsion?
The best we can get from the liberal-socialist direction we are headed, is blandness.
Even economically, theirs is a goal of achieving only equality. So a socialist regime proposes to reach a happy state only by confiscating the wealth of those who achieve - angering them; and by stirring up the anger and envy of those that have not achieved and transferring that wealth to them. The problem being that having played no part in building that wealth - they have not learned the lessons necessary to sustaining and growing that wealth. So in the end the "have nots" are still miserable and learn to see their only means of survival as getting more of what someone else has. They are not inspired to achieve more and grow their own wealth; why should they?
The wealthy, on the other hand, stop doing the things that they have done in the past to build their wealth. Why should they? There is no use to expending energy and sacrifice toward a goal - only to have the rewards of success taken from your hands.
So everyone folds his hands and sits.
A little sleep, a little slumber,
A little folding of the hands to rest;
So shall your poverty come like a prowler,
And your need like an armed man. Proverbs 24:33-34 NKJV
At it's very best the blandness of liberal economics results in equal MISERY. . . not the"pursuit of happiness" that Jefferson prescribed.
No where is the monotone blandness of the liberal mindset more evident than in political discourse.
Convinced that they have no substantive arguments on which to build their case - liberals have left off trying to sway people with logic. Instead they have resorted to just saying the same thing over and over and over and over - even if it is illogical and wrong.
They find a phrase that they feel will evoke the proper emotion and they just say it again and again. Draconian - that's the word that liberals always attach to any spending cut proposed by a conservative. It sounds sort of like "Dracula" and thus it stirs up the fear and negative emotions one associates with having their very life's blood sucked out of them. So back in the 1990's when they shut down the government - it was said to be due to draconian cuts proposed then by Newt Gingrich and the Republican congress. They said it over and over.
Another phrase used over and over by Bill Clinton and his ilk, was "the rich paying their fair share" - this despite the fact that, at the time, the top wage earners in our nation were paying way over the majority of the taxes being collected.
In the present budget battles, Obama, Reid and the like have taken to attaching the phrase "millionaires and billionaires" to their statements bolstering the argument for raising taxes. Apparently, they think that will evoke the class envy they will need for people to buy into more ridiculous spending.
Here is a video compilation from the Huff Post - no less - that illustrates the monotony of their specious argument:
Isn't that tiring and bland?
Can you find the least amount of inspiration in it?
To further illustrate the vacuous nature of their arguments, you should know that the video was put together to be associated with an article about Obama's "lurch rightward". It was a time in which our President was defending his action of allowing the Bush tax cuts to remain in effect another two years. He poo-pooed tax cuts during his campaign but then defended them for a brief time - or at least portrayed them as necessary.
Now he is back to vilifying them again.
yada-yada-yada-yada-yada-yada-yada...
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