Jan 23, 2023
I get a lot of email along the following lines: The Dems have corrupted our elections - our vote will never matter again.We'll never see justice from our DoJ - the system is rigged against us.We can't fight the federal bureaucracy - it controls everything.We'll never get out from under all of this debt - collapse is imminent.A return to founding principles is hopeless - poor, poor, pitiful me.Granted, it isn't all conservatives saying these things, but an alarming number are starting to sound as though they're accepting victimhood. The left is quite happy about that. Leftists want us to accept our lot in life as helpless subjects, dependent on them for everything. It's time we accepted a hard truth: we're in this mess because we let it happen. But the left would like us to continue denying that truth and accept the victimhood that they've been promoting. Victimhood is a state of mind in which those suffering from it have given up control. Life