Liberalism and control....? I don't get it.

We start our lives as children of our parents, under their control and guardianship. We obey our parents' rules while we are being raised by them. We reach puberty, enter our teens, and begin to develop our own views, opinions, etc. This is the time we catch our first glimpses of freedom. We sometimes rebel in an attempt to gain just a little bit of that freedom and dream of the day it will be ours. But still, we live in our parents' homes. We go to school when they tell us to. We come home when they tell us to. We do our homework when they tell us to. We eat what and when they tell us for dinner. We go to bed when they tell us to. We wake up when they tell us to. And then we start the cycle again. All we dream of during this time is FREEDOM. The day we are no longer under their control; when we can make our own decisions, even if they are wrong and result in mistakes. Those mistakes evolve into lessons learned; lessons we may have never learned otherwise. We become stronger individuals when we are out from under our parents' wings and must fend for ourselves. No one...no one, once they have achieved their freedom, chooses to go back home to live under their parents' rule. Sure, plenty of people move back home now and then, but you know what I mean. Given the choice of making our own decisions vs. living by decisions others make for us, being in charge of our own lives always wins hands down.
So why is it, then, when the first quarter of our lives are spent in anticipation of this freedom, being in charge of our own lives and out from under others' rule, Liberals want our government to control every single faction of our lives? What kind of car we drive..how much energy we can use...what we eat, what we drink...and don't snub those last two because believe me, our government taking control of health care in this country absolutely means they will determine what we can and can't eat based on nutritional value. Why are they so anxious to have our government so completely interwoven into our entire lives? How can we prosper as individuals and therefore as a nation if we are not free to try new things, new ways, BETTER ways? There is no room for growth, learning, or success when we only do what we are told we can do. No one ever succeeded at anything by simply staying within the perimeters. Nothing was ever invented without the inventor going beyond what he was told he could do. We are being transformed into a nation of mediocrity, a nation where dreams will cease to be, a nation that will never learn how to become better because we are contained within a box of rules and laws and regulation.
Think about it... I challenge you. Think of it in these terms. Having lived on your own, gotten where you are, achieved all you have achieved because of decisions YOU were free to make...would you give it up to return to the rule of mom and dad? That's what we're doing, America. Wake up. See it. CHANGE it.