I Make a Lousy Conservative
When it comes down to it, I’m a really lousy conservative. Could be because I have been a default liberal for 49 years longer than my brief, few years as a conservative. I embarrass myself when I recognize my old liberal, knee jerk reactions kicking into action. Though leftist indoctrination is far more pervasive in schools today, the boomer generation certainly were recipients of the hate-America meme as well, though we hardly originated it. We were just such malleable freaking tools for those who have long sought to bring this country down.
I started noticing my “indoctrination” when I first started blogging in 2001. I had this instantaneous hostility towards Christianity. I knew I had my own arguments with God, but none that justified my automatic sneer as soon as Christianity was mentioned. I started looking at that and asking why, and of course, that opens the door for examining all the other indoctrination that I had bought into over the years. It’s rather hard to be raised in America without coming to the conclusion that Christianity is the enemy. Which, as it turns out, like most liberal dogma, is false.
My liberal background certainly explains my ineptitude at debate. I have always argued from emotion, using over blown oratory to deliver an emotional punch that, usually, failed to have factual substance. It was enough that I b-e-l-i-e-v-e-d whatever it was that I was prattling on about. My shrink called this ‘magical thinking’. At the time, I had no idea that half the country suffered from it.
I am reminded of my liberal-ness when reading this conservative describe her experience in liberal Massachusetts.
“One benefit of moving to Massachusetts is that I have been forced to clearly define my political beliefs. I am more of a Conservative Republican in Massachusetts that I ever was in the mid-West…
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I usually fare pretty well during these brief discussions because I know the facts and can defend my positions. That is what strikes me the most. The left-winger liberals defend their positions with emotion and attack, not fact. Many of them, when queried, cannot even explain why it is they have taken the left side.”
That is what I found to be true when questioning my antipathy towards Christianity - I couldn’t adequately explain it. I had no real reason to disdain it. Christians had never done me nor mine any harm. I had never experienced them to be any more than irritants. They may have thought I was a depraved druggie and declared me to be a hedonist, but they never sought to silence me, or imprison me as Islam would. And besides, they were right. Moreover, Christians may have loathed my abuse of them, but they didn’t invent “hate speech” laws in order to censor me. That is the brainchild of the left.
In actuality, it is the secular religious police who now threaten us all with censorship and thought controls. While Christians are associated with the tactics employed in the Salem witch hunts, no one seems to notice the witch hunt that sustains the ACLU. If Christians had sought to shut down opposing views as zealously as the left currently does, I would have been justified in my hatred for them. As it is, it turns out the left are the real religious police and their criticisms of Christianity are little more than neurotic projections.
Fortunately, I now have facts to defend my positions. There are ample reasons to defend America and her Judeo-Christian roots. More importantly, the freedom that has always defined this nation had begun eroding long before the Twin Towers fell. In fact, the islamists’ attack resulted in illuminating the rot in the American body, exposing the cancer that has been eating away at her foundations; the so-called Progressives/socialists in academia, government and science. They are every bit the enemy that Islam is - they all derive their ideology from the same nihilistic roots.
I am may not end up being a particularly articulate defender of America and the West, but at least I am standing on solid ground. The left likes to refer to themselves as “reality based”. I, seriously, beg to differ. All the left can do is violate reality. It’s up to the rest of us to mend it back together.
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"Conjure magic for them and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar. The beating heart of Rome is not the marble of the Senate. It's the sand of the Coliseum. He'll bring them death... and they will love him for it."
zee November 20th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Why thank you, and I shall oblige.