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Conservative means less and liberal means more. Would you like to have a conservative piece of the pie or a big, generous, liberal piece of it? Would you like to have a conservative slice of freedom or a big, generous, liberal helping of it? Pies and freedom do not have anything in common. It is in the lust, the want for more, that they are alike. A liberal lusts for more freedom. A conservative prefers less, or a conservative piece of it, for everybody. That’s why I fall into the category of a liberal. I want more freedom for myself and everybody else, figuring that’s the way things should be and that the more freedom the people have, the more freedom I’ll be able to enjoy personally. The most liberal inhabitants in the history of this continent were the Indians, when you consider their vast population and how they managed to live in harmony together for thousands of years before the white man came. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of their liberal attitude toward freedom rubbed off on the white man a little bit over the first few generations. Who else better embodied the notion of “Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” than the American Indian? I believe the founding fathers were reading their mail. How else could that conservative bunch that came here, mostly from England, become so liberal-minded so quickly in just a few generations? They were more than liberals, they were radicals, willing to risk their lives for freedom when they declared war on their mother country and started the American Revolution. It wasn’t just the founding fathers, all those that fought in the war or supported the cause of American independence were all liberal minded radicals. There wasn’t a single conservative mind among them. I’ve still got that same radical liberal attitude of my forefathers, and I’ve got it in spades, when it comes to a lust for freedom and those rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that were promised. The conservative mind – pushing for less freedom – has taken some giant steps over the past few generations, and especially over the last five years, at lessening the freedoms of the individual. That may be due to the commingling and swapping of spit that has been increasing over the past decade or so between the average conservative mind and the Christian conservative mind, which has made them a formidable enemy to deal with. Joining this combination in recent years has been the neoconservatives. Now this three-headed monster of conservative thought has taken the political reins and has been doing things that would have made George Washington wet his pants. Can you imagine what George and the others would have said? The very purpose of the Revolutionary War was to set the people free from the rule of England and free from the interference of all the other nations in the world. It was fought for the right to be left alone. For the liberal mind, it is easy to see that the free rights of the individual, especially the right to be left alone, extends naturally to all people and all nations, or else there is a genuine risk to all inalienable human rights. What would George Washington have thought about our unjust and illegal attack on Iraq for the purpose of regime change, masked by all manner of lies and deceptions on the part of the State? What would he have thought about our continued war and occupation of that country for the purpose of turning Iraq into a Democracy that would forever be friendly to the United States and it’s interests? What would he have thought of the three-headed monster’s plan of doing this throughout the world, one nation at a time, in the name of Jesus, until there isn’t a single non-democratic nation standing, leaving the United States to rule the world? That wasn’t what he had in mind. To our radical, liberal-minded forefathers, such thinking and actions would amount to insanity and a reason for starting another American Revolution for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The liberal mind will always want more personal freedom and the conservative mind will always want to allot the people only the freedoms that they deem appropriate according to their religious beliefs and understanding. The liberal mind will forever insist on the right of the people to question the government and demand that it conduct itself in an appropriate manner at home and around the world. The liberal mind will always be reaching out for the greater, deeper and wider truth. The conservative mind has long since been satisfied that it knows all the truth that needs to be known.
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