I feel that the general population of the United States is genuinely ignorant of the goals and motivations of the political left. Why, do you ask, do I think the political left has an agenda that most Americans cannot identify? In the following I will try to break down core belief systems of left and right and how I think Americans have been duped by leftist politicians and why opposing Conservative leaders have lost their backbones in promoting their core beliefs.
I see the most principled core belief system of Conservatism as being SELF DETERMINATION; the idea that you can be responsible for yourself and your family, the future, your goals, your pursuit of happiness and have some idea of how to achieve these goals without having someone else or a body of others trying to determine them for you. In other words, YOU and those you allow to inhabit your inner circle of family and friends, are responsible and intelligent enough to know what is best for you. YOU know best as to how to raise your children, what future you want to pursue, what you want to spend your money on, where you want to live, how you want to practice your religion and how you think you may live safely and peacefully. You might even love the country where you reside, support the goals of other Americans to do the same and hope that others have the rights to attempt to achieve the same goals you want and that your country will protect those rights. This should NOT be a novel concept!
Is it so bad to think that YOU might know what is best for you and your family and that you don’t need someone or a group of someones looking over your shoulder telling you that you can’t possibly be intelligent enough to determine your own fate?
Is it SO BAD to want to be responsible for your own fate, your own future, YOUR LIFE, and to expect others to be responsible for THEIRS?
The leftists in the United States seem to think that it IS bad for you to want self-determination.
“But, but, I just want to educate myself, I want the truth, I just want to be responsible for myself, my own actions and my own property, I want to be able to say what I want and do what I want to do with my life! I don’t want to have to be responsible for everyone Else’s life, their choices and their prosperity. I follow the laws of this country and I only demand that others be held to the same standards that I am.” says the Conservative American.
“Good luck with that, Sir/Ma’am, you can’t possibly be intelligent enough to self-determine YOUR fate! Besides, everything you have, hope to have, wish to have, is all just dumb luck and not based on hard work and good ethics.” says the Leftist Idealist.
Here’s a question, has anyone ever tried to make you feel guilty because you have something that someone else doesn’t have and that you have only achieved those things because you are shallow and crass? Ultimately, should you feel guilty of what you have that because others don’t have as much? WOW!, think about it, there are people that believe you should feel bad because you work hard, pay your bills on time, love your family and friends but think it’s NOT your responsibility to be the savior of the whole freakin’ world, that you respect and abide by the laws, you love the Country that has given you such great opportunities and heck, maybe you’ve even given up some part of your life to defend that Country, and you want to keep most of what you’ve worked for or your parents have worked for and given you!
Now as the Political Left seems to believe, you are a BAD, BAD, person, you are selfish and mean spirited, you are too stupid and ignorant to possibly know what is best for you, your family, your Country. As a Conservative, the left thinks your religion is ignorant and evil partly because it diametrically opposes their agenda, partly because your religion (namely the Judeo-Christain faiths) might expect people to behave in an ethical, responsible manner, and partly because let’s face it, someone else might influence how you should act besides THEM and in their view, there’s always an excuse to deny responsibility.
The Left understands how to control and direct the emotions of people with distraction and by introducing misery into their daily lives they consistently blame others for whatever misery and troubles that those people face, the blame directed at those that want self determination. Americans, in leftist’s ideals, must put their faith in the hands of those who think might know better about how to live their lives, thus, those who do not prescribe to the ideals of the left, are evil and “Heathens”. Such a distraction keeps people from questioning the ideals of the left since all the troubles of those who support leftist ideals, are blamed on those who question those leftist ideals. If you support Conservative ideals, you are branded and attacked as being selfish and stupid and all suffering is blamed on those whom leftists brand as selfish. The Left has won support by building hatred for an imaginary oppressor that they condemn for causing every possible problem that people live with on a daily basis. Personal responsibility is abandoned to the sickness of assigning fault for all hardships and every hardship is blamed on the “greedy” who fail to do THEIR part and in that way, it becomes a constant reminder of whom they believe to be an enemy who caused those problems.
The ideals of the left are served by the need to destroy free will and self determination, the “Heathens” that opposed the left, and the promotion of self-loathing ideals. To the left a free and prosperous people cannot serve those ideals while dependency on a “Nanny State” can. To use the quote from the Gettysburg Address; ” government of the people, by the people, for the people”; does not give the government power to force contribution to a government charity system nor does it guarantee a right to receive said charity nor does it give the government the right to own its citizens; the citizens own the government.
The need to blame those that prosper comes full circle in that no one can truly prosper under these Leftist ideals and that those who prosper believing Conservative ideals can always be made the “enemy”.
In conclusion, Conservatism promotes self reliance, self determination and self control; a Government that is ruled by the PEOPLE and assumes that those people know best how to live their lives. The Left, which is blatant socialism, expects to rule most aspects of a person’s life and believes that most folks don’t have common sense or intelligence to know what they want or how they want to live.