I am a Liberal because of social issues and by that I mean I support a social safety net and I am 100% opposed to discrimination and policies that lead to discriminatory results on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and economic class. If these five things were taken out of the equation I'd be a Conservative hands down because i have no problem with smaller government if by smaller government you mean a smaller government streamlined to eliminate waste.
I have no problem with trickle down economics so long as the wealth that does trickle down is sufficient to put out the fires of poverty and keep the middle class afloat. I have no problem with a strong military and the use of military force to protect our national interests so long as it is properly determined that these interests are at risk and a failure to protect them poses a clear and clear and present danger to the nation.
I believe that Conservatism when exercised in the true spirit of Conservatism is beneficial to us all but that is not and has sadly never been the case in this nation. Conservatism in theory is a system where everyone shares equally in the sacrifice to make a country more lean and fit. it is practiced however in a manner that is equivalent to an exercise instructor and/or dietitian pushing their charges to the point of exhaustive starvation while at the same indulging in and getting fat off those very donuts they say it is unhealthy for everyone else to have.
Conservatism as practiced is really a form of Soviet Communism when you get right down to it. They keep telling everyone to do without, to tighten their belts, to stop spending so much while like the leaders of the old Soviet politburos they indulge in the very luxuries such as government regulated health care paid for by the taxpayers that they swear is bad for everyone else. Take a look at these so called Conservative leaders who keep preaching the virtues of fiscal abstinence. Take a good look at the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, Louis Gohmert, Donald Trump, Glenn Beck, Ted Cruz, and John Boehner and then ask yourselves when did these so called fiscal dietitians last miss a meal? When did they last not spend like a drunken sailor to indulge themselves in material goods they keep telling their fellow Americans to deny themselves; goods paid for in the form of taxes paid by those very Americans they keep urging to go on a fiscal diet?
These so called Conservatives are no different than those self indulgent pigs in George Orwell's "Animal Farm." These people are not Conservative; they are snout nosed moochers who grow ever more fat by feeding themselves at the public trough; denying sustenance to those they would rule while they get bloated over the spoils of public largess that they claim to be theirs and theirs alone.
To be a true Conservative, fiscal prudence does not equal social injustice. It does mean in leaving people behind, forcing people to fend for themselves, or those in need being forced to do without. True Conservatism does not mean scapegoating other people to advance partisan interests and nor does it mean seeking to rule by dividing Americans along the lines of race, gender, class, religion, economic status, and sexual orientation.
Yet most importantly true Conservatism does not believe in selfish self indulgence on the part of those who are privileged to lead for a privileged class is the antithesis of Conservatism in that a privileged class is one where you have leaders who tell the masses "to do what I say and ignore what I do."
A true Conservative believes that one should practice what one preaches rather than do what these so called Conservatives are doing today and that is to preach what they don't practice. So if Conservatism is to ever again be viable in this country it must become what it really is and stop being what it is now and has been for far too long; code for discrimination, intolerance, selfishness, and self indulgence.
No comments:
Post a Comment