"Why I Choose To Be a Conservative"

Focal Point USA ^ | 12/22/2008 | Karen Parker

[Paige]

Over the years, many well-meaning people from different Ideological mindsets have asked why are you a Conservative. Being a Conservative in America today is a unique opportunity to stand for something many have forgotten. My father told me years ago, "If you do not stand for something, you'll fall for anything." Thus, my explanation on why I choose to be a Conservative.

[TheConservativeParty]

How can a Christian, NOT be a conservative? That’s what I’d like to know from the liberals who claim Christianity.

I dared drive near a mall today, and the highway exit to the mall was backed up for over a mile. That was in the Berkeley of the Midwest, Madison, WI.

You know they were scurrying around getting Christmas gifts, yet most of them voted for Obama.

How do they celebrate the birth of one child (Jesus) and live with the fact that their party supports legal extermination of the lives other children? It’s a grave moral evil to support abortion, even just with their votes for democrats.

As for the question “Why am I a conservative?”, I answer how could I NOT be? Being Anti-Abortion is the most important issue, followed by all the other values conservatives hold.

[Marauder]

Looking back on my attitudes and actions from about junior high school on, I realize that I was conservative before I even knew it. I find liberal philosophy averse because it makes no sense at all. I didn’t choose it; it chose me.

[Dutch Boy]

I am not sure I chose to be a conservative or if I am just wired that way. I have always believed in individual achievement. Looking back I always played sports that were based in individual achievement (track and wrestling) rather that team achievement (baseball, basketball or football).

But what every gets you there is good. Many roads can lead to the same destination.

[Paige]

Then you’re saying if an adolescent listens to a Liberal professor and has liberal tendecies. But, eventually grows up and begins to think for themselves they can’t change their beliefs and become a Conservative?

[Dutch Boy]

No.... Sorry if I left that impression. I was just saying that I was wired that way. There are many paths one can follow to their destination. I am sure it goes the other way too.

[Secret Agent Man]

Liberalism is a worldview whose foundations are rooted in emotions and feelings. This is why they have such weird contradictions and hypocrisies. And why they are never happy.

Conservatism appeals to logic and reasoning. The fact that logic and reasoning are behind it in no way means it’s not compassionate or caring as well. It is just that FEELINGS or EMOTION are the fundamental justification for our viewpoints. In the long run our worldview is far more compassionate and concerned with the individual and society at large.

[Marauder]

Further, I just read a Bible passage that admonished Israelites for having no compassion for the poor and downtrodden (Amos 2:6-8). I reflected as I read it that with our economic system, those same poor and downtrodden are automatically afforded opportunities to improve their own lot as they see fit.

While I agree with your description of liberalism as a worldview, I would also interject that the so-called “leaders” of the democRat party don’t fit that characterization beyond appearances. My take on them is that they have a deep fundamental change planned for America and that the “citizen liberals,” along with the uninformed voters, are their useful idiots.

[Secret Agent Man]

Maybe I should add the final piece to the puzzle that I forgot but your last comment reminded me of.

That is, one of the guiding ‘feelings’ or underpinnings of the liberal is the feeling that they are superior to everyone else. They know better. They think they do anyway. they know best, and that manifests itself a whole variety of ways. The end justifying the means, most often.

[Marauder]

The most amusing afternoon I ever had was when I accidentally sat down at the “liberal table” at the SUB when I was taking some courses at a local college. They began by congratulating themselves and each other for their outstanding intelligence.

I’ve always believed true intellect doesn’t have to brag, so I kept my mouth shut and listened to the tallest heap of bullshiite I’d ever heard. They “pontificated” endlessly on various issues, especially of Clinton’s winning the presidency. Needless to say, I never sat there again, because it was all I could do to keep from spewing my food and drink all over the table from laughing at them.