Once you insert these magic lenses between your eyes and reality, everything becomes clear. Fantasy is transformed into reality. Enemies are friends and strength is gained through disarmament and appeasement. Why, even the stimulus, huge debt, manmade global warming, and single payer healthcare will make perfect sense. However, unlike universal healthcare and the liberal claims, liboggles aren’t entirely free. You have to cede rational thought, personal responsibility, and individual liberty. Alas, a small price for world peace and the comfort of knowing that an all benevolent government will take care you.

The paragraph above is something taken from a site I frequent, to debate some of the most pressing issues facing Americans today. When I read that, I laughed a good hearty meal with that one, but also realized that it seems more relevant than one might think. It’s on the same lines as looking at life through rose colored glasses. Something is there, you know it , you don’t feel right about it, but for some reason, you just go with it, support it, but you don’t know why. You dig deep inside your soul for the answer, but you just can’t find the right answer. You just know what you have been told and taught all these years, and you couldn’t possibly go against your values, even if those values don’t seem right anymore.

What does one do in this dilemma? The answer may seem easy, but it’s the hardest thing any person can do. You read things, you hear things, you see things. All those things go against everything you were brought up to believe and everything your friends and family have been telling you, but for some reason, it just doesn’t feel right anymore. Your scared of the condemnation you might receive for even mentioning what you are feeling, because it does not fit with what those that taught you are thinking, feeling and doing.

The easy way out, is to just put on a pair of liboggles, (rose colored glasses) so everything will seem OK again. The sky is gray, put on the liboggles, and it’s nice and blue with the sun shining bright. You get your paycheck and begin to complain about all the taxes taken from you. Put on the liboggles and all of a sudden, you feel euphoric, and think, well, the Government needs it more than I do, so it’s OK. You walk down the street and get to the corner where the same person has been begging for years while smoking cigarettes he bought, and your first thought is to ask why he or she hasn’t taken the time to get cleaned up, find a job and get off the streets, but then you put on your liboggles, and instead, you reach in your pocket and pull out more of your hard earned money and give it to the person so they can go buy more cigarettes and maybe a bottle to go drink after the traffic cuts down.

Now keep in mind, I didn’t say all the people you ever see begging at the street corner, I said for years, the same person. At some point, no matter the circumstances, one has to wonder why they don’t seek help. If they know enough to stand and usually make a small fortune at some street corner, then they have enough sense to take some of that money to get cleaned up and get a job. Kind of like the time I saw a jeep right off the freeway exit with an out of gas sign. I gave him money for gas. The very next day, that same jeep, with that same person and same sign, was in the exact same spot. The man didn’t even have the smarts to move his operation to another area, but rest assured, some poor sap fell for it, and gave him money.

I guess we can say the same about all the politicians, that for some reason, we keep putting into office. We know the economy is bad, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the spending is so out of control, it’s going to burden many generations to come, but yet, here they still are, doing the same things year after year. We put on the liboggles and wham! Things are just fine, we open our wallets like a swarm of step ford people bowing to everything they tell us. We elect a person who promises hope and change, but we ignore the radical background we see all over the media and take him at his word. What happens? The lobbyists that was promised to not be involved or even a small part of this administration, are all over in the administration. The tax hikes promised not to hit the middle class, are starting to show in hidden places. We think the price just went up, when in fact, they only went up due to the Government taxing goods and services that are pushed on to the consumers.

So why do so many continue to put on the liboggles? We may never know, but it sure would be a shame some day, when some of the good, well intentioned liberals take off those glasses and ask the question, what happened to our country?