Category: Political philosophy

more unlikely?

Well, yeah…

is circling the drain. Oh absolutely, they are still quite dangerous and you would be a fool not to realize it.

But we ALL know how this will end. In the words of the poet, “The wrong shall fail/the right prevail/with peace on earth, goodwill toward men.”

Have faith. And also have courage. You need them both.

to pay attention. The Left has gone too far on LBGT stuff.

I gotta be honest: I don’t like the government involved in marriage at all. I suggest that EVERY person pay a tax on income (ideally a flat tax). And then who freakin’ CARES who you live with?

I think marriage is a purely religious issue: You don’t need the government’s permission to marry! If you want an ecclesiastical blessing on the union, go talk to the clergy member of your choice.

If you want your neighbor Bob to perform the marriage, then go talk to Bob. Have your Aunt Tillie perform the ceremony–see if she is willing. Have someone wearing a big salad bowl on their head. Weird, but if they will do it, then OK. I just don’t care!

But the government has nothing to do with it. Nor should it!

Now do you want a marriage in the downtown Baptist church? Well, then talk to the person who legally directs that church and controls access. Maybe it’s OK with that person, and maybe it’s not, but either way it just isn’t a government issue.

“Marry” your goldfish if you want. Or your hamster. Again, weird, but OK (though a human must consent and be a legal adult).

I really don’t care who you “marry.” But your tax bill doesn’t change. Whether you are “married” or not doesn’t make a lick of difference. You owe X% of your income in Federal taxes. Case closed.

leave the Democrat party, it left YOU!

Democrats usually try to cover their butts by saying that both parties have become more extreme. But that is simply not true, and I have Democrat friends who have gotten WAY more extreme over the years! Way.

In one of the biggest surprises revealed since the ratings began, there are twice as many Democrats with perfect zero conservative ratings in the House and Senate today than in 1971. And there are significantly fewer Republicans with 100% ratings in the House and Senate today than 51 years ago.

This is not, not, NOT your father’s Democrat Party!

Just what is it conserving?

Well, at heart Conservatism is historical empiricism. In other words, we conservatives look to what worked in the past and apply those solutions to current problems. We conserve what has been historically shown to work. So history is a very important guide.

Leftism, OTOH, assumes that all that happened in the past was sullied by some kind of “-ism” (such as racism or sexism) and is to be eradicated and avoided. It is simply useless as a guide to our problems. It is the cult of “new.”

ALL is mere preference and a drive for power (post-Modernism)–there IS no Truth (*except that one), only a Nietzschean will to power. We are much smarter and therefore must start anew, jettison the old, and become “new men.” And WE will assure “Heaven on earth” for everyone! “And surely we will do it, therefore…”

As with almost all things Leftist, this was clearly seen by JRR Tolkien”

“Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!” 

Yeah, he understood Leftism…

Leftism is also fundamentally narcissistic, assuming that we know better and are way smarter than those “-ist” clods of the past. We can’t learn from them because WE just know far better.