Posted by
Forgive My Patriotism on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:27:09 AM
I am alive and kicking and
the fall of conservatism will not necessarily change that. But consider
this. We only infrequently discuss the failing values of the leaders of conservatism, and
therefore conservatism itself. And the result is that we are all now ineffectually
looking at the political landscape that affects our lives and our world, from the
outside. This is because we have learned to have little to say. We are right, and a
plurality of people agree with us, but because of "POLITICS", it's
not how things are voted or focused. What's right is not the issue, it's how to keep a fragment of values in this country, in the face of the onslaught. We have been relegated to a voting block that
is just one player. And guess what? This is what those who define
conservatism think of us, "THEY WILL VOTE FOR US ANYWAY. WHAT CHOICE
HAVE THEY GOT." That is what the Republican Party thinks of us
now. In other words, we only matter enough to get a bone once in a while.
But as a conservative guy on a computer, I'm still alive. Just what would
I need type here to get people to sit up and listen to what I have to
say? Everyone just keeps cheering on an 80% liberal just because he's not
as bad as the other socialist. That is where we stand.
I even see this compromise mentality from the big
names on Townhall. And despite this forum, if I wrote the
best piece that says it all, still only a handful of real conservatives are
going to agree with me and stand with me, while compromisers ridicule us for
not chucking our values for some half losing strategy. Just read the responses to some of my blogs.
I just want everyone to stop for one minute and evaluate how we got to this
compromised situation with our Republican presidential candidates they way they
are.
I was a young man, but I remember saying to myself
and others that conservatism is doomed when the Republican Party
announced it would adopt the policy of Big Tent Republicanism. To make their
foolish point, they went strait out and announced that they were going to seek
the support of the Log Cabin Republicans.
From then on, members just got worse and worse and now many are either flat out
liberals. And the remainder stand around talking like math teachers.
"Well - now - there - seems - ah - to - ah - be - ah - some -
miscalculation. We're - going - to - need - to - show - some -
restraint - in - this." Thinking - "big words, big words, that's what impresses people.
They think we are really mature when we do this."
Even if I died (yes very extremist.
sorry) like an American Revolutionary in the struggle to give my children a more free future, someone might
notice. But not enough. The list of martyrs is long and forgotten, and we don't
even pay attention to them anymore. Just a simple few examples, Terry
Shiavo, Ramos and Compion, Waco, Juanita Broaddrick, land owners with the preeble
mouse, and on and on. What happened to them? Why couldn't we help them? Conservatism failed them. These are a very small recognizable few from an enormous
list, and they are all liberal victories. And liberal powers are not
waning, but still growing daily.
The system is now innately anti-values, anti-God, anti-family, anti-hero,
anti-freedom, and pro-perversion, pro-injustice, pro-defenselessness,
pro-poverty, and all of it is touted as fair, righteous and noble. And the Republican Party has gone along with all of this to avoid what? Name-calling? Ridicule? Finger-pointing? The conflict itself? Losing their fortunes or their lives? (Whoa! Let's not get too extreme here Tanglelad. This isn't the 18th century you know. We do things differently nowadays.)
If we had a John Hancock, someone with some credibility in this fight who
truly is willing to lay it all on the line, then we might be able to get people
to sit up and listen. That's how it always works when it gets to this point of injustices and control of the people, their property and their means. There were plenty of these in
the Revolution, that and God are the only reasons it worked.
Everyone can go back to
their soap opera politics of compromise now. But I can't. I'm not right
about all things, but I'm right about this. I sometimes hear the question "What
would Reagan do?" I have to ask, "What would the founders
do?"
Today, I would just get to hear this answer to all I've said: "What do you expect us to do, march on Washington with a copy of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence taped to our guns? The media would have a field day!"
I'm a conservative after the likes of Ben Franklin, George Washington, Samuel Adams, Thomas Jefferson and John Hancock. I know this because of the things I say out loud and in print.
Who are you in the likeness of?