Posted on 12/02/2019 4:17:25 PM PST by Kaslin
If you ask ten different conservatives to rank the most important issues to them, youll likely get at least ten different responses. The issues named at least once by your small sampling would probably include some variation of abortion, tax policy, deregulation, gun rights, judicial activism and immigration, among others. Each issue is important in its own right, of course, and each will have its defenders happy to explain why their top ranked choice is the most critical issue to the future of our country. And if you listen to the case for any one absent the others, none would be without a point.
Abortion opponents run the gamut from restrictionists to outright abolitionists, and they are arguably the most passionate ideologues on the right side of the political spectrum. In fact, on our side, at least in terms of spunk and passion, I would put an abortion abolitionist up against any rainbow-flag wielding leftist demonstrator, any day of the week. Theyre not violent like Antifa, but whether its the halls of some State House or in front of literally every abortion clinic in America, theyre not afraid to get out there and loudly and proudly protest what they see as Americas greatest sin. And, unlike Antifa, theyre also not afraid to show their faces. They want to End Abortion Now, as in right now, and the logic they use - the fact that our country legally murders millions of its own babies every year and a righteous God probably has a problem with that - is tough to argue with. Theres certainly a solid argument for putting abortion at the top of the list.
Tax policy and deregulation are pretty similar issues, insofar as both are inexorably linked to whether we have a strong, churning economy or whether leftists like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren manage to turn us into some sort of Venezuela-like hellscape. Its not that the rich shouldnt pay taxes, or that corporations shouldnt be stopped from remaking America into a polluted, smog-infested, apocalyptic wasteland. However, when the left takes the pendulum too far - as they do on every issue - too much taxation and too much regulation tend to stifle economic growth to levels that could cause suffering on a mass scale. In other words, the point for economic policy being at the top of the list is a mighty strong one indeed.
Gun rights are also a major issue to conservatives, and its not just because of the fact that so many proposed laws would make de facto criminals out of so many of us. More reasonable sounding leftists say theyd never interfere with the longstanding tradition of hunting in America, but people own weapons for a variety of reasons, and the right to hunt is actually the least of most of our concerns. Given their skepticism of tyrannical governments (you know, because theyd just won a war against a tyrannical government) its obvious that the founders intended the Second Amendment to go much further than simply allowing American families to collect the occasional wild game to live on, which would have been a given anyway considering that most American families relied on it for at least a portion of their sustenance. No, they meant it as a way to ensure citizens the right to self-defense both against individual wrongdoers and as a safeguard against governmental tyranny. Take it all away, and its only a matter of time before the jackboots come calling. So yeah, its pretty important and it would be hard to blame anyone for putting gun rights at the top of the list.
Judicial activism is the one issue that unites anyone who was anywhere right-of-center before President Trump stormed onto the political landscape. Its absolutely bonkers, and it needs to end. Whether youre a MAGA-hat-wearing Deplorable or a Never-Trump squish, you probably love the fact that, despite what you may or may not like about the president, hes at least making the American judiciary great again - into the founders original vision of interpreting, rather than making, Constitutional law. And when there are liberal tears involved, as when Kavanaugh was confirmed, so much the better. Indeed, theres definitely an argument for putting the abolition of judicial activism at the top of the list.
Finally, theres immigration, and Im going to go ahead and brush aside all the arguments above - at least insofar as they serve to place those issues at the number one slot - and slide this issue right up there at the top, heads and shoulders above the rest. Abortion, tax policy, deregulation, gun rights, judicial activism
all are critical to maintaining the United States as the type of place where the most people can have the highest quality of life. But if we allow Democrats to succeed in filling our country with people predisposed to vote for big government, over time and election cycles it simply wont be possible to win on any other issue. In other words - if we lose the immigration battle, we lose the war, for good.
Stop the invasion or the rest of the issues are lost anyway.
Winning the culture war and the war on Christians. Wrapped up in those is winning the war on white males and the greatness of America.
Build a real wall to the sky, and bring all our troops home. End all foreign aid, leave NATO and the UN.
Yours was the only one on this list that makes sense to me. We can fix the rest of this crap.
Some 30 Million here illegally have to be sent back. They can NEVER be allowed to vote. They will self deport if they cant make any money and turning that off is easy. Just enforce laws on the books. If these things cannot be accomplished there will be war.
bump
Sorry to hear.
Still, the future belongs to those who show up. Demographics is destiny
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