Reply #28: "Work (or vote) for me and I'll take care of you." [View All]

[TahitiNut]

This is the siren song of authoritarianism. Far too many Americans have not matured - and continue to have some Disney-esque nostalgia for that symbolic escape from personal responsibility: childhood. The archetype of the loving and nurturing parent from whom all goodness flows is alive and well in the mythical mind of America. We seek the paternal employer. We seek the parental politician. We presume paternalism even in our "Gods."

The flip-side of this specious bargain? Obedience. Slavery.

This is the road to totalitarianism. This is the "bargain" of monarchies - autocrats/monarchs which were essential to creation of the institution of slavery. (Without autocrats, there'd have been no slavery.)