Dear Liberals:
You’re getting red in the face, stress level is up and your spouse is tired of you walking around with a scowl.
All this lauding, legitimizing and legalizing conservatism is getting to you. I know that. But you have to put it in perspective.
Conservatives have been around for 27 thousand years, they are not about to go away. Conservatism is an ethos, eternal and existential part of our species. It is a needed entity for the survival of any society.
So, deal with it.
Now hold on, let me explain.
First, there is a large segment in any humankind society and cultures that fear the unknown, the new and change. This ailment takes on many manifestations. One is they don’t want to lose what they have. They are comfortable, don’t rock the boat.
This attitude is a borderline exacerbated personality trait of security. These people need representatives. This handicap needs help.
Second, conservatives have a propensity for simplicity. They can not grasp complex causes or effects. Conservatives are conceptually challenged. Coupled with recent studies that show, on the whole, conservatives have lower IQ than liberals only deepen the morass. I would also posit that the structure of conservatism exacerbates the malady.
So they look for simple solutions.
Capital punishment, torture, abstinence, Fundamentalism, dissing science and leaving significant differentiated groups out of the equation to mention but a few.
Third, the myopic simple approach to solutions leads to made up solutions and explanations that are for a species that does not exist. Some examples of these are “free-market” which never was, the invented trickle down economy, and personal responsibility.
Or they just make things up, superstitions if you will, to keep their comfort level and explain what they can’t grasp.
The fore mentioned three have one thing in common; conservative behavior can not keep up with the liberal. By some fluke the liberals may push the agenda too fast which would leave behind a large section of the society.
Conservatives, if properly represented, would be the fail safe to slow the liberals down so the rest of society can catch up.
Fourth, just pure greed is a major conservative attitude. Get all you can, as often as you can, whenever you can. Disregard the left-behinds. This result is a Bastille day, the 99%ers, our revolution and other tumultuous corrections.
It is a disaster; history proves this, for conservatives to be in charge. The longer conservatives are in control the more volatile the remedy. When the liberal and the conservative agree on a clashed issue it is the liberal that wins, always, every time! Rock-n-roll, round earth, women can vote, contraception, end of slavery, are but a few examples from thousands of written examples over the last 6400+ years. “Conservatism is the dropped anchor on the Good Ship Progress” (LNP). “Conservatives hug today what liberals got yesterday” (LNP).
Liberals need to stop ignoring, ridiculing and being snooty to conservatives. Conservatives have no choice as to what they are.
The solutions: First, conservatives are here, they can’t go away. Accept the fact they need guidance so let them have their political representatives.
Second: when a person believes that Adam and Eve rode around on dinosaurs 6000 years ago or believe in the Rapture they are in stage “permanent la la land”. So there is no hope of changing the Fundamentalists. Isolate them. Make them impotent as soon and often as possible.
Third: every liberal in every communication venue relentlessly educate. A clear concise barrage of logic and knowledge, in particular from the social science, will allow the conservative to assist in flourishing the species from the position of “the loyal opposition."
Keith A. Dewey
Chair
Liberal National Party USA
10:41 am on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 As most (obviously not all) learned after the fact that the arms deal was begun well before the inauguration. Don't attack my intelligence, tom. Go back to your Reagan alter. I don;t claim to be as superior as you must feel. ......................You and old mike Moore are good at twisting history to make your (incorrect) points
PLEASE EXCUSE ME!!!!!
"...give me an example of a time in history where when the liberal and the conservative have agreed on an issue that the conservative issued was adopted. Just one and I will shut up." I will post this again: How about the Welfare Reform Act of 1996? It was called the 'Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act. You don't keep your word, sir.
Try to pet a hydrophobic dog---you get bit! Snakes are bad, but Sneaky snakes-----??? Sorry, I just couldn`t stop myself, by and large.
The welfare fight is still on. So the liberals and the conservatives have not come to a common ground. That passage was not accepted by the liberals. To the liberals the “welfare reform” was based on a myth of personal responsibility. There is no free will. It is just a dupe by con artists to keep the public from the truth and further their greedy niche.
...give me an example of a time in history where when the liberal and the conservative have agreed on an issue that the conservative issued was adopted. Just one and I will shut up." That is what I gave you. You have now changed the parameters which are not consistent with your 'request'. You did not indicate in your 'request' that the 'example' must introduce a new and sustaining era of koom-by ah and togetherness. The only time that happened was when the nation come together for a brief post 9-11 period. Words strung together to make sentences convey meaning. Quit weaseling out your own verbal presentations.
Do you believe that if conservatives get some legislation passed that is a win? I will try to make this as simple as I can. Again. Let’s use the following as an example of what I mean. For centuries liberals and conservatives fought over slavery. It was a fight of the 16th and 17th century in England that carried over into America. The slavers got favorable laws in this country. The abolitionists also got favorable laws. And the battle continued. Our civil war ended slavery. The liberal and the conservative finally agreed (not right away) slavery was wrong. Today the liberal and the conservative are on the same page, they both agree slavery is wrong. This is the position that the liberal had when the fight was going on. To sum it up: the conservative wanted slavery, the liberal did not and when the dust settled the liberal issue prevailed. As it always does!
Well....in various era's...such as, say, the Roman Empire, I would say their conservative ethos served them well for success. When they became 'lax' in this generational ethos and became more 'liberal', the empire was defeated and ultimately collapsed. In reviewing world history I don't think your 'thesis' would hold up to scrutiny. Entities of organized human groupings always need a hierarchy for survival. This automatically imposes conservative principals on a 'tribe' or system of government. The levels of individual freedoms and responsibilities are dictated through this hierarchy. As to the success of 'liberalism', I can find no enduring human groupings (either tribal systems or government forms ) which can be highlighted as an example of 'liberalism' contributing to their everlasting existence in any form. If anything, as the effects of prevailing 'liberalism' encroached this was their very death knell. Liberalism does not stand for freedom. Liberalism dictates HOW everyone must think and act, because liberals 'know better'. And liberals want a pervasive government to dictate that.
First of all no one is an idiot. A person may do or say dumb things but they are not an idiot. Shame on people who call others, an idiot. For English the root word for liberal is liber, the Latin word for free. As I have said the conservative can’t carry a concept to its consequential conclusion. You have trouble distinguishing between an act (well fare reform) and a philosophy/credo (people being ignored). When I speak of issues it is the whole not the pieces and parts. Our constitution was a liberal act, the issue basically was Democracy. Now liberals are fighting to make it a more inclusive democracy. Oh, yes and you are dead wrong about the demise of the Roman Empire. At least your thinking and that is a good first step.
23. To this the Plebians readily consented, willing to give up their own power for the sake of abridging that of their superiors. In consequence of this , Largius was created the first dictator of Rome; ---- 24. Thus the people, who could not bear to hear the name of king even mentioned, readily submitted to a magistrate possessed of much greater power: so much do the names of things mislead us, and so little is any form of government irksome to the peolpe when it coincides with their prejudices.----History of the Commonwealth of Rome; Oliver Goldsmith