Originally Posted by
Truth Detector
I am glad you asked that question. I began life in my youth being very liberal. Then, as I got older and went to college to study sociology, business and economics, and learned much more about our founders beliefs and the Constitution, I realized that liberalism was based on a lie.
What is that lie you might ask? The lie that Government should provide for the people. This is exactly what our founders feared the most and, I believe, why they stated that America's demise would not come from outside of her borders, but from within. The insidious ideology of the liberal left that argues that we should trust Government to protect us and provide for us which breeds professional politicians who realize that with low information voters, they can get and stay elected by promising them stuff extracted by the government from others who "have too much."
Our Democratically controlled urban sewers are a small microcosm of the result these policies would bring to the rest of the country. Our founders didn't trust the voters, therefore, the electoral college. Our founders didn't trust politicians, therefore, the idea of a PART time legislature.
I realized that the Democratic Party was morphing into everything our founders warned us against. It's end game is a Marxist Fascism where the Government controls everything of importance and controls what is considered politically correct speech.
While the Republicans have not had a stellar record, they still represent much closer, the original intent of our founders. Therefore, I tend to vote Republican. The ultimate goal of Conservatism should be to prevent the left from gaining political power and putting their anti-Constitutionalists on the Supreme Court. The left cannot win honestly anywhere it runs; therefore, it turns to dishonest jurists who attempt to legislate from the bench.
That is why I seldom vote Independent even when there are times they are not lunatics and actually make Constitutional sense.
I believe that individuals do much better when they are educated and independent with a limited Government and have choices in a free market. I believe that a Government that is limited to defending our nation, our borders, creates and defends our laws and copyrights and patents is best for the people.
Liberals will argue that they care more when they create dependency on Government handouts. I say they are creating slaves and nourishing poverty and societal decline. History is littered with the failure of the Liberal progressive ideology; why anyone would foolishly believe it is a good thing defies commons sense, intelligence and logic.
That, is what drew me into the party.
Bookmarks