Posted on 08/16/2002 6:52:24 PM PDT by Happygal
Conservatism isn't easy.
It's not easy to try and attempt to inject common sense into a system so swamped in 'what feels good'.
American friends..I come from Holy, Roman Catholic Ireland.
Conservative you would think, eh?
But yet, socialist in the extreme.
The dumping pot for 'ethnic groups' who can no longer look to Britain's colonialism for a hand out.
(I'm ALL for a hand up, btw...so don't put me in the 'racist brand'....I've looked to teach English as a foreign language for asylum seekers so they might, at least, be able to 'fit in', and express their demands, concerns, desires..and most importantly work)
You are lucky, in that in America there are so many like minded people.
I feel sometimes, I'm trying to hold out the tide with a spoon.
(Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my country..so much as to say, I would die for Ireland. But many of those who are killing it, wouldn't do the same).
It scares me.
Actually, among those like minded people, only half of them agree, only about half the time.
As for the unfortunate Riverdance remark, consider the source. I sponsored a US Irish Step Dancer to the Worlds in the late 1980's. Anne finish 7th. one year. not bad for a Yank. As for Riverdance, Irish dancing needed something "vulgar" to make it popular. My little dancer now teaches Step Dancing because of the "faked" dancing in RvrDnce.
Slainte.
"But yet, socialist in the extreme."
I have trouble understanding why the socialist tide continues to rise. It's happenning in the U.S. too, even though we have a constitution written to prevent it. Lots of us are trying to resist it though.
Wouldn't mind seeing Ireland one day, have some ancestry from there.
Personally, I find the fellowship of Free Republic comforting, even when we conservatives are fighting amongst ourselves ; )
No, my last name is Dutch, beginning with a "V," then a "C." Once some take out sushi I picked up at the local restaurant was labeled "Sam Cree," which was apparently how the owners, with an oriental language barrier, were pronouncing my name. It sort of rhymes, but isn't close any other way. I thought it was cute and have been using it for anonymity ever since. Sorry for the lengthy discourse.
I know many do have Indian ancestry, but not me. What part of the country are the Cree from, I'm not really up to speed on them?
I'm not really sure that the Judeo Christian tradition is anti socialist. It does encourage personal responsibility which isn't compatible with socialism, but it also contains endless, almost bureaucratic, rules on every aspect of human behavior, which is very much in line with socialism. I think it could be used either way.
Interesting, I hadn't realized the name I picked had that meaning.
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