Who and What is Conservative?

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Who and What is Conservative?

 

Think about conservatives and who come to mind. Pundits might be Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Bill Whittle and many others. Politicians might be Mitch McConnell, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, Mike Lee, or Louis Golmer.  The dictionary defines political conservatism as; “the disposition in politics or culture to maintain the existing order and to resist or oppose change or innovation”. And it defines conservative as; “tending to favor the preservation of the existing order and to regard proposals for change with distrust”. Does anyone really want to be that? It might have been a good position within the first week our Constitution was signed, before people in government began perverting it for their own purposes. Is this what self-proclaimed conservatives want? Is this what the “movement” stands for? Do conservatives describe themselves this way? Or are we just folks who want to stop the deterioration of our Founding Principles and the march towards totalitarianism? If so, then that is not conservatism any more than liberalism represents the liberal exercise of liberty.

 

Let’s go a step further, into what really matters. What does today’s conservatism DO? What does it look like? What function does it perform? We are what we do, not what we claim. If “being conservative” means doing what is necessary to rein in government expenditures, domestic aggression, overreach, and intrusion into  our lives and making sure politicians are held accountable for violating their oaths of office, then there are none in government today.  What would that actually look like? It would be very ugly these days.  There would be trials, impeachments, public hangings, long prison sentences and an elected class that would be scared to death of we the people. If elected Republicans are considered the bastion of conservatism, then being conservative means to select and support moderately liberal candidates to shove down the throats of anyone to the right of socialism and go along with the opposition party without taking too much heat from constituents or political enemies, and do anything to please the donor class.  And apparently much of the purpose of the conservative “chattering class” is to support the conservative ruling class, destroy anyone attempting entry without proper “creds” and to be a more positive source of misinformation.  All across the board, most conservatives, with precious few exceptions actually DO or ACCOMPLISH anything for the good of America, Americans, or our Constitution.  Most endorsed Juan McAmnesty for president, proving they are actually liberal. Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, and Ann Coulter were some of the few who refused. Any value, integrity, or beneficence that conservatism may ever have had has been completely destroyed by those who claim to be part of it.  Any similarities today’s GOP may share with Ronald Reagan, Calvin Coolidge, or Abraham Lincoln are obviously completely accidental. Let’s not forget that at the 2011 GOP convention John Boehner tried to pass a voice vote resolution to prevent a grass roots conservative from ever getting the party’s nomination.  After 3 votes of overwhelming “NO’s” he declared it passed anyway.  This is, apparently, today’s conservatism because this is the party so-called conservatives support.

 

Obviously, yesterday’s intelligent conservative has become today’s constitutional patriot.  Today’s conservative could be someone who has tasted the GOP’s Kool Aid and believes that losing presidential campaigns with party-appointed liberal candidates is a successful activity. They believe that patriots who get shot defending the Constitution deserve what they get for defying the federal government. None understand or most likely never read the Constitution and fit the profile of the most intelligent remark ever made by Joe Biden when he commented, “Most American Don’t care anything about their Constitutional rights.” Very true which is very sad.  Ask them how it is possible for all these ranchers to be in violation of trespassing on federal land when the Constitution forbids the federal government from owning land outside Washington, D.C., harbors, and forts? Their silence is their ignorance is why they cling so bitterly to their party and Washington Post. CONSERVATIVES ARE THE FOLKS WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE WHAT THE GOVERNMENT AND MEDIA TELL THEM. Those of us who realize that the government and their media tell us lies or nothing at all have transformed from conservatives to constitutional patriots. Conservatives are the ones who voted for Mitty and McAmnesty.  They are the ones who believe that Cliven Bundy, LaVoy Finicum, and the 79 people slaughtered in Waco got what they deserved for defying the government.  They are the ones who consider it honorable to pay all their taxes when we know that the most unpatriotic thing one can do with a dollar is to let the government get a piece of it. Patriots know better, conservatives don’t. Conservatives still cling to the myth that government can be a force for good.  Politically there are only 2 types of people; those who believe government is a solution and those who, like America’s Founders realize that government is the perpetual source of problems.

 

Thomas Paine said , “Government is, at best, a necessary evil and at worst, an intolerable one”. EVIL, A NECESSARY EVIL. We do not need government to save us from soda pop, cigarettes, or our own weapons. We require Paine’s NECESSARY EVIL to keep general order amongst the states and be minimal. Conservatives don’t agree with this, Constitutional patriots do. I am now and forever NOT a conservative, but a constitutional patriot. So don’t tell me my candidate is not conservative enough for you. Don’t make not being conservative sound like something bad.  I’m throwing out my conservative Kool Aid, and burning my conservative card and shrugging off the GOP shackles.  I’m an American constitutional patriot. Who is with me?

 

 

© 2/28/16

Bobby Florentz

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