The
upcoming presidential election marks the first time
high school graduates of 2015 and 2016 will vote. As
these millennials were only 10 years old when I
launched this column, eight years of my ramblings
may be insufficient to purge their minds of high
school propaganda. Certainly, there are a smattering
of great civic teachers across the hinterlands who
actually taught America’s liberty principles, but
most students only heard state sponsored spin. After
graduation, those choosing college will receive
indoctrination sufficient to keep them blind well
into their 40s with some never regaining the ability
to see a political truth. Today’s column might be my
last chance to enlighten them before they embrace
conservatism or progressivism. Adults who read my
column strictly out of spite, should flip to the
classified section because if you haven’t seen the
light by now, you never will.
The right wing is home to Christian conservatives,
liberty focused Republicans, constitutionalists, and
tea party folks. These terms are synonymous.
Patriots in this category understand American
freedom, individual responsibility and limited
government. They recognize free-market capitalism as
the mechanism which best establishes winners and
losers because whenever government manipulates a
market they break it; our national health care
system being the perfect example. Prior to Medicaid
and Medicare in 1964 and ’65, health care traded at
market prices. By government mandating services and
manipulating the expense / reimbursement equation,
leftists instantly established a permanent pool of
dependent recipients. This cost-shifted expenses to
the producing class and eventually enslaved them in
debt. Freedom and free-markets are the lifeblood of
conservatism.
The left wing is home to secular-progressives,
socialist Democrats, Marxists, collectivists,
leftist activists and the ruling class. These terms
are synonymous. Comrades in this category view
America as inherently evil and feel our nation
should be torn apart with wealth taken from those
who have earned it and given to those who haven’t,
less a small handling fee for the ruling class.
Mankind’s natural unequal distribution of talent,
intelligence, courage, ambition, ingenuity, and
initiative must be erased by government stealing the
bounty produced by those working in the trenches and
giving it to those sitting on the sofa. Covetousness
and theft are the life blood of progressivism.
Conservatives recognize God blessed America with
coal, oil, natural gas, minerals and fertile
agricultural and forestry lands. In a free-market
environment, industrious Americans can capitalize on
this bounty to build an economy which can employ,
feed, power and provide true charity to all mankind.
Because personal freedom follows economic freedom,
prosperous Americans are free to move about the
country. This perturbs progressives who know it is
easier to control an unemployed or underemployed
populace, so they established the national religion
of environmentalism to block all natural resource
development. This false worship begins in preschool
and continues throughout institutions of higher
indoctrination. A national religion runs contrary to
the First Amendment, so progressives simply ignore
the Constitution.
As implied above, conservatives acknowledge the
existence of God as the source of our natural rights
as explained in America’s Declaration of
Independence. The only function of government is to
secure those rights and then only after receiving
consent of the governed. To the contrary,
progressives worship government as god with
mankind’s rights being established or revoked by a
decree from the ruling class.
America’s political battle is really as simple as
outlined above. Chose correctly, honor God and you
will live long and prosper. Chose wrong, worship
government and you will live life a pauper begging
government to steal to give you the stuff earned by
your colleagues who chose the correct option. Be
smart, chose conservatism.
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