Do you want to know what's destroying the fiber of this nation? It's the entitlement mentality. It's the mentality that drives people to claim that anybody who has more than they do has the responsibility to give something to them or that they have the right to take advantage of other people's work.

Funny, it sounds an awful lot like communism to me. But what do I know? I'm just a casual blogger with a lot of wild right wing opinions. I'm a radical.

But I'm a radical who has his eyes wide open and sees what's going on out there. I think that probably comes from being a hard working American who has done nothing but worked hard in his life, has never asked for anything, and want nothing more than to enjoy the fruits of his hard work.

So, needless to say, as I watch things like crime and taxes spin out of control, welfare running rampant and the rise of socialized health care in America, I get a bit defensive.

However, the entitlement mentality is nothing new, its simply spreading to a new demographic, and as it spreads it grows. However, the basis for this mentality have grown out of one of the worst mistakes of the 20th century - a mistake that allowed for the growth of parasites in America, and a mistake that is inspiring the liberal left to encompass more demographic groups and add more entitlements to an already parasitic society.

The mistake that was made was opening up the doors to offering entitlements to minorities (particularly blacks) as some sort of compensation for past treatment. Whereas the government at the time thought that their heart was in the right place, they were horribly wrong. What they did was create a group of people who believed that they were entitled to be taken care of... And as expected, that mentality transcended generations as each new generation was taught that they were entitled and as each generation demanded - and received - more entitlements.

What has come of this is a two-fold problem. Obviously, the top problem is that we are facing a massive population of minorities who don't think that they need to take care of themselves and are entitled to just about everything because they are "victims"... Furthermore, this has also created a surge in crime because so many of these people have become absurdly apathetic in their approach to community policing, raising children properly and promoting solid communities that encourage growth and well-being.

So what does this mean for 21st century America? Sadly, instead of addressing the problem head-on (which would be deeply politically incorrect and probably hurt somebody's feelings), the liberal left has instead decided that there are more victims out there than just minorities, and have actively been working to extend the parasitic entitlement culture to anybody who has less than somebody else. Just as they worked so hard in the mid-20th century to create a victim-based entitlement mentality, they're now working just as feverishly to convince people that the "have's" have the responsibility to take care of the "have-not's."

Never before have I seen so many people calling for the government to take care of them. They want the wealth of the working class (have's) to be redistributed to them through social programs and government entitlements. They want the government to raise their children, they want the government to police their communities, they want the government to take away their freedom to choose what they eat and where they can smoke... They are telling the rest of us that they don't want to take responsibility for their own lives, and in turn we have to do it for them.

But how can this be? Hasn't anybody been asking where this mentality is stemming from? I know I have, and what I'm finding is ugly at best.

It seems that the liberal left is actively working to convince the "have-not's" that they are victims of the upper classes. Those people who went to college, make a decent living and live comfortably are responsible for the plight of the lower classes, and in turn it's their responsibility to take care of them; that they are entitled to a portion of the earnings of these people. This has been a relatively quiet campaign in recent years, but a recent series of events - from the Katrina fiasco to the introduction of socialized health care to the rise of the nanny state - has ripped the plot wide open. The liberal left has made it abundantly clear that the "have-not's" are entitled because they don't have it is good as the "have's."

Is this a good thing? I mean, did communism really work so well that it has inspired legions of liberals that it should be the way of the future? It certainly seems that way. After all, how else could anybody explain the entitlement mentality? The left is actively working to ensure that wealth is evenly distributed because it is the "fair" way to run a country. The working class is being forced to give more and more to those who are deemed to be "less fortunate" than they are. Don't believe me? Just look at the current Wisconsin plan. It would replace my $60/month full health coverage through my employer with a $140/month state run system all under the flag of "giving everyone coverage by having everybody paying a share of the costs" (as spoken by one Senate Democrat).

So what is the liberal left telling the people out there? I'll tell you what it sounds like to me. It sounds like they're telling people that they don't need to work hard and better their lives because the rest of us will be here to take care of them. Can you say "entitlement mentality?" If implemented and added to the rest of the welfare and social programs out there, what would be left for people to work towards? Responsibility gets thrown right out the window, and it would only be a matter of time before we would be facing the same sorts of problems that we're currently facing with the minority community - only the numbers would be on a much larger scale. We would have massive numbers of people without a college degree and a good jobs living off of entitlements and growing dependent on them (parasites). I shudder to think.

So maybe the question we should be asking is what the real agenda of the left really is? What is gained by the creation of the entitlement state besides a new form of pseudo-communism? If the goal of the left is create legions of people who are dependent on government for their survival, than they're certainly accomplishing their goal... But to what end? Is the end goal a nation of equality amongst all people regardless of the misery that is being created as the result? Folks, that's communism. It can be candy-coated every which way; they can call it anything they want and try to push it as creating equality... But they're also destroying prosperity and creating a whole new demographic of people who are threatening to join the minority entitlement crowd as parasitic blights on society.

But who's to say, right? I'm just a hard working conservative nutball who wants to enjoy his life and certainly doesn't want anybody telling him that he owes anybody anything simply because he has something to give.