Just so that your faulty judgment is fully exposed, here is what I want to see from our government:
1. A return to first principles, where the federal government is reduced to providing a few main tasks, mostly dealing with the military and national security. The rest of it returns to the states or to private enterprise.
2. Both federal and state spending must be cut severely from present levels. Federal spending cuts, though, cannot be primarily done on the back of the military.
3. Mexican border security is a legitimate task of the federal government, and the illegal hordes must be stopped.
4. Medicare and Social Security must be phased out, if national financial security is to be attained and then retained. Otherwise, talks of real cuts is all hot air.
5. After watching the nation’s finances fall into severe jeopardy over the last 50 years, voter consideration should be given to banning government borrowing except when an actual, valid state of war has been declared by Congress. For anything else, no way.
6. Abortion is murder, should be declared so, and should be outlawed. This is one main reason why I’m a conservative and not a libertarian. Pure libertarian freedom is a mirage, and is not much different from anarchy.
7. Environmentalism beyond rudimentary water and safety standards is a tool being used to strangle the economy and must be curtailed and rolled back.
8. The American legal system is an inefficient, patchwork mess and unknowable in full for anyone. Tort reform should be the first step for reforming the system, but it must be accompanied by severe pruning of the lawbooks. Most regulations must be abandoned en masse.
9. There must be a return to private property rights. Present legal accomodations to NIMBYism Noxious notions ranging from “stakeholders” to “viewsheds” must be ended.
10. Income taxes and corporate taxes must be ended at the national level.
11. In order to crimp the lobbying industry, there should be no exceptions to taxes including food, nor should there be any ability to grant subsidies for any industry at the national level.
12. States should have more flexibility to pass laws that I might find offensive and which contradict the principles above; under the theory that, if one state becomes more burdensome, one can always move to another. The most likely result of such a system would be a beneficial, competitive “race to the bottom” to conservatism that would explode the heads of liberals. Similar to what is happening in Texas today.
Now, ask yourself if you think that I am a troll or a DUer. Or whether you are severely misjudging me because of one relatively minor stand that I happen to be taking.
A minor stand? I think not, DUer.
This is not a minor stand. You’ve come out in favor of a major violation of our constitutionally recognized rights. Some sexual predators are serving time in prison for less intrusive violations. And rightly so. Maybe this kind of thing is no big deal in your mind, but to conservatives, it’s a very big deal.