Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Leftism hides under an intellectual veneer, but underneath it is all emotion

The Left has never been comfortable with the notion that values are more determinitive than socioeconomic factors in human behavior

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs

Because gratitude is the key to happiness, anything that undermines gratitude must undermine happiness. And nothing undermines gratitude as much as expectations. There is an inverse relationship between expectations and gratitude: The more expectations you have, the less gratitude you will have.

Socialism values equality more than liberty.