Why be right?

[The_Rorschach]

I'm going to try being tactful and polite because, well, Italian already beat me to the Angry White Man tone.

Its seems that you are working under a very dangerous generalization and to wit, that people are incapable of serving ideals which do not benefit themselves. I'm a Republican, I'm not rich, and I never will be. My initial beliefs were actually incredibly liberal, because like Kevin, seeing the ruination of my own country bothered me. I couldn't turn a blind eye to my own countrymen sleeping on the sleeps, I hated hearing about people who needed hospitol care, but were denied because they couldn't afford it and I didn't appreciate a government which handled these problems with such brutal and uncaring hands.

So why did I go over?

Well, because I happen to hold dear a string of beliefs based primarily upon personal responsiblity, and secondarily upon communal responsibility. I have enough conviction that, even if my ideals are in no way beneficial, and in fact at often times adervsarial to my own needs, then I will support them anyway because I believe that if they are followed by others and implimented nationally, everyone will benefit.

I think Italian is going to handle Welfare Reform and Racism, which really, you're talking out your ass on. So I'll take the third theme, I support the tax cut, and though the reasons why are a little complicated, I'll try and simplify them for the sake of conversation.

Governments cannot fix recessions, they are natural to capitalistic economies. The recession is a natural liquidation process, and any governmental interference will only prolong it and make it perminent. The only way a government can act positively is to speed it up, and that can only be done by cutting its own spending. Resources need to shift, an adjustment process need to take place naturally within the private sector. To prop the wage rate up, which is of course what the New Deal did, to prop them up and prevent them falling destroys the whole adjustment process and prolongs the recession perminently which is what happened in tne thirties. The Tax dividends are unlawful, doubt taxation is wrong no matter how you look at it. Whether or not trickle down economics works, Conservatives understand that the more government interference you have, the worse the citizens will eventually suffer. This measure was passed merely as a placating gesture because Bush knows what many cannot understand: The government is not equipped to solve some problems, and in fact, can only make them worse.

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"Here's where it gets ugly, and this is in no way saying that Conservatives/Republicans are racist. "

Actually, thats pretty much exactly what you are saying, though only by implication. Let me ask you one question, with a bit of a preamble. It was originally said by Tom Blair in 1994, so they are not my words, but I paraphrasing it for simplicity's sake. See, I've written some papers on this two, but I was not content to watch secondary sources on television, and took it upon myself to investigate primary sources on my own.

'. . . . Jewish nationalism (Zionism) is openly accepted at the highest levels of government and the media. Latino nationalism is funded by the government through the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund and La Raza (The race) which openly advocates racial triumphalism and reconquest (reconquista). African-American racial nationalism and advocacy is also supported by America’s power nexus. Asian separatism and insularity are legendary. Why is then, when those of us who are of indigenous European blood seek kinship around those who share our own heritage, they are labeled "white supremacists?" . . . .'

Now Nietzsche said "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently" and I agree, but the double standard which seems to exists almost makes me sympathetic to so-called 'white supremacists.' Almost. It seems that if you're white, you have to admit to being a sexist, narrowminded bigot, or else you are seen as a closet racist. You have to apologize for 'institutionalized racisms' and acts committed by men who died four generations ago, or else you're a hate monger. Our liberal media constantly cites the cause of various civic problems as a lack of white initiative to correct past misdeed, asking whites to be more responsible, and everyone else, to be less. They take one thing, and call it something else, in order to alleviate the personal responsibilities of individuals. It's not crime, its poverty. Whatever.

This is an entirely seperate issue, and has nothing - I repeat nothing- to do with conservatism as an ideology. Italian is right to rip you a new asshole on this issue.