So I got on a rant in an email exchange with a like-minded uncle of mine.  We were commiserating about the election, the state of the nation, and the world in general. 

A little bit about him:  He makes stuff and provides for his family with his own two hands.  He doesn't go to the Government and get "unemployment benefits" when he has a bad year.  He doesn't apply for healthcare handouts like Medicaid, or use the "ER-as-primary-care" strategy - he pays for it out of pocket.  He doesn't apply for taxpayer-funded "workers' compensation" when the daily stresses of his labor cause him pain.  He just does what he does because that's what he needs to do.  Maybe most importantly, he's the one who influenced me to pay close attention to politics - I was a typical, ignorant, college student "lib-by-default," when he convinced me to think rationally about politics. 

He's the kind of guy we need more of in this world.  This is a compilation of the last few emails I wrote to him:

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Muzz:

This thought was compelling enough to make me wake up and write it to someone...

This is the core of the lib ideology:

"I never want to worry about how I'm going to put food on the table."

"I never want to worry that my job might disappear."

"I never want to worry about paying my mortgage."

"I never want to worry that I might be evicted from my home."

...and so on.

Modern libs are all about feelings of security and safeness.  They never want to have to deal with the consequences of their failures.  But the problem is that the only people that are able to provide that security, are people who are willing to risk and accept the consequences of failure.

For every hundred "glorious workers" who demand "job security" and "living wages," as a  "fundamental right," there must exist a greedy capitalist pig, who risks his and his family's well-being to provide that opportunity for them (that would be you).  For every mob of coddled, "intellectual," "anti-disestablishmentarianist" radicals,there must be some poor, glorious b.astard of a warrior who risks his life to fight, using violence and deadly force, in mortal combat, to provide that mob its freedoms (that wouldn't be me, personally, but it *would* be the people I trained and worked with).
You said: 

"It's almost like we need a "union" of people like us that can revolt against them,"

right?  Well, the last time a group of rational, truly free-thinking people revolted against a confederacy of idiots like the ones we're facing now was when the U.S. Constitution was created.

Except now there's no geographical location to escape the creep of lazy, stupid, needy people that have, once again, attached themselves like barnacles to the last ship still sailing.  Either we  educate the stupids, or we succumb to them.  Or maybe we stop producing and let the leeches starve.  This discussion is actually the subject matter of that Ayn Rand novel (Atlas Shrugged) I was trying to get you to read.  The idea is that, no matter how insanely popular social welfare programs that try to shield us from our failures are among the irrational, emotionally-manipulated sheep-people, none of it can exist (none of it!) without individuals willing to take economic and personal risks to create things.

The story really drives this point home - productive, risk-taking, entrepreneurs are taxed, crippled, and hounded to support the laziness and incompetence of everyone else until they all, one by one, decide to just stop working.

It's an astounding concept, and I still think it'd be worth your time to read through it once.  In modern-day terms, what if that top 5% of income-earning individuals and corporations who shoulder, what, 75% of our national tax burden, as well as provide the vast majority of our GDP just... quit?

See, this book is actually even more pertinent today:  Nobody can claim that Socialism works - it doesn't.  Its failures have been spectacular and horrifying.  So the axioms of the modern socialist (or "liberal") are that profit-motive is evil, heartless, and greedy and that without "compassion," free-market capitalism is just plain bad.

But they're stuck, see, because without that "greedy," "evil" profit motive, nobody would have any incentive to actually work and create value, which they require to further their social programs.  For example, when was the last time *you* earned money for expressing "compassion?"  Oh, that's right - you earn money by physically making bricks, yourself.

Last time I checked "crying" and "demonstrating" didn't put money in your bank account.