"You have to behave the way we tell you to"

Maybe it’s weird that we sometimes think of people in terms of comparisons between groups. I have been lately.  I mean, consider terrorists and Democrats.

One group doesn’t offer any useful information on how to build a nation. They take exception to American exceptionalism, and are bound and determined to bring our nation down to the level of every other nation: mediocre, less productive, less successful, lower standards of living, bound up by superstition contrary to factual evidence. This group pays lip-service to concepts like job creation or the economy, but they don't actually provide jobs in any private sector, only in the "sector" that is controlling other people.

They want to be in control of your life and mine. This group tells us, "You have to behave the way we tell you to," and they will punish us if we don’t. People around the country are learning just how they have to behave in order to not be punished. Just ask photographer Elaine Huguenin, and florist Barronelle Stutzman, and the owners of Conestoga Wood and Hobby Lobby.

And the other group? They are terrorists.
 

The parallels came to mind as I considered recent remarks from our eloquent Secretary of State John “I served in 'nam” Kerry, as reported in the Patriot Post:

Secretary of State John Kerry offered some withering criticism for terrorists. "I have seen this scourge of terror across the planet, and so have you," he intoned. "They don't offer anything except violence. They don't offer a health care plan, they don't offer schools. They don't tell you how to build a nation, they don't talk about how they will provide jobs. They just tell people, 'You have to behave the way we tell you to,' and they will punish you if you don't." Bombings, shootings, running planes into buildings -- that's nothing. Terrorists don't offer a health care plan. Funny he should mention health care, though, since Democrats used the very tactics he described to force people to sign up for ObamaCare. But, Kerry said next, "Our responsibility and the world's responsibility is to stand up against that kind if nihilism." 

Now that’s telling ‘em John! Got those terrorists really worried I bet.

Why can’t he just admit it? If you don’t place extreme value on liberty—that is, the least necessary governing of individuals’ lives—for all, then what you think is OK simply depends on how you think people should behave.

Whether you’re a terrorist or a modern liberal.