When I was a kid, the TV channel Nickelodeon had an annual contest where you could win a Toys R Us five minute shopping spree in which could run around Toys R Us and grab all the toys you could in a five minute period. That’s like winning the lottery times a million to a kid.

When the Democrats took power this year, getting a liberal in the White House and majorities in the House and Senate, this was like their Toy R Us shopping spree. They quickly realized that their majority isn’t going to last long because of how people hate pretty much everything a liberal likes, so they have to pass as much liberal legislation as they can in their five minutes. That’s why when they took power and had a war and a failing economy to deal with, they were like, “We want toys!” and went on to their usual liberal stuff like health care and global warming like everything else was fine.

Luckily, they’re really clumsy about it, tripping over themselves and knocking over isles and such. Hopefully they’ll end their spree with sad faces not having gotten all the toys they really wanted. Otherwise, conservatives will have to get back in charge and then smash all their toys while liberals watch. People will hate us for it, but it will be fun.

America is about freedom, but it really seems like people look at it two different ways. There is the freedom of children, which is freedom from responsibility. Then there is the freedom of adults, which is free from the control of others. Liberals seem to focus mainly on the child’s freedom. All their arguments usually amount to “Give us control of more things, and you no longer have to worry about the important stuff.” But conservatives like that scarier adult freedom where you still have the responsibility to provide for yourself and your family but you don’t have the government pushing you around like a child.

America was founded on the ideals of adult freedom, but children get scared, and now we have the muddled mess we have. Maybe we have to realize how scary freedom can be sometimes and better accommodate those frightened by it. Like mailing them to Canada in a large box with air holes.

Something to think about.