Conservatives, liberals, and other trash talk
Posted in Random Thoughts by R Lee Wrights on January 31st, 2008 by Matthew Holmes
With the upcoming elections we will no doubt hear many negative ads denigrating the opposition as “conservative” or “liberal.” People often use these two words when trying to brush off or silence those with whom they disagree. Personally, I do not like being lumped into either camp, but tend towards the “liberal” camp.
But if you are like most Americans, who tend to be somewhere in the middle of these two extremes, this political trash talk probably tends to turn you off from politics rather than get you interested and involved. Don’t let it. It is precisely your involvement that brings some balance to the governance of our society. As such, I would like to quickly respond to some of the popular rhetoric from the two camps. If you are easily offended, please read no further.
Extreme right-wing Conservatives rant that the “liberals” have destroyed “our country” and are destroying our “way of life”. First of all, it is not your country. You happen to share it with millions of other people, who all have just as much of a say in how things operate here as you do. You do not own America anymore than the liberals do.
And quit trying to recreate 1950’s “Leave It to Beaver” America and shove your “traditional family values” down everyone else’s throat. If this is how YOU want to live, then do it. No one is stopping you. Teach your kids about abstinence, God, and how the American Founders were Christians, but don’t expect those who disagree with you to foot the bill for it through public education. I personally agree with “traditional morality” but this kind of teaching belongs in the home and within religious communities, not at public schools.
“What’s principles good for, if we isn’t persistent?”
Following President Bush’s annual State of the Union Address, the Libertarian Party issued their response from National Chairman William Redpath:
Enough about the Constitution already! C’mon folks they outlawed it a long time ago. It seems like forever since anyone could possess more than an ounce of the Constitution and not do jail time.
What do the environmental movement, the United Nations, and the Republican Party have in common? Each was successfully taken over by the elements we now are beginning to know as NeoCons either in this generation or earlier. Forget the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati. It isn’t a conspiracy, it was just ‘good’ business.
God bless Killington, Vermont, the first whole city to join the Free State Project and try to move to New Hampshire.
The Bush administration has continued veering toward gun control. You know it is bad when The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence salutes the administration’s support for gun control.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today announced its support for legislation introduced by State Sen. Mark Christensen that would amend the state’s concealed carry law to provide a residency exception to non-resident military personnel stationed in the state.
Actress Rebecca Schaeffer, co-star of the television series “My Sister Sam,” had a lot of admirers. One admirer, a crazy gentlemen named Robert Bardo, decided he wanted to kill the actress. 
