With no rudeness intended, I was once as dumb and shrill as you are. I went around spouting off crap that I thought I knew. I was dead set against minwages, gov’t regulation, unions, heck you name it and I was agin it. I was a good little republican. I read Atlas Shrugged like 4 or 5 times. I named my first kid after her.
But a funny thing happened as I got older. What I saw didn’t gibe with the theory. Being a realist, I had to go with what I saw. You have a big advantage over me. When I was going thru this, there was no internet. I could not get on and search “myths tort reform” or “Minimum wages good or bad” and things like that.
What I am suggesting you do, is start researching some of these things that you think are part and parcel of “conservatism.” When you do, I do not think you will find anything out there that makes “anti minwages” a conservative plank. It might p*ss off the anarcho’s and libertarians, but you won’t find ity graven on any conservative stone tablet.
Intelligent republicans are trying to tell you something. Thats what the above article is about. Other intelligent republicans are trying to tell you something. Whether you end up agreeing or disagreeing, you ought to at least shut up long enough to read what they say and take some time to think about it.
parsy, who has been in your shoes
*shouts at Parsy*
“You’re goin’ the wrong way !”