Brilliant article, old but still on point.

An article written back in 2006 called It's the Conservatism, Stupid! that is still on point after five years.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/0 ... stupid.php

Two great paragraphs about conservatism:

" Conservatism is the ideology of the past—a past we don’t want to return to. Liberals need to embrace the culture war, because we’re winning. The story of American history is that of conservative ideas and prejudices falling away as our society grows more progressive and thus more true to our nation’s founding ideals. Conservatives supported slavery, conservatives opposed women’s suffrage, conservatives supported Jim Crow, conservatives opposed the 40-hour work week and the abolishment of child labor, and conservatives supported McCarthyism. In short, all the major advancements of freedom and justice in our history were pushed by liberals and opposed by conservatives, no matter the party they inhabited at the time.

Conservatism is Bill Bennett lecturing you about self-denial, then rushing off to feed his slot habit at the casino. It’s James Dobson telling you that children need regular beatings to stay in line. It’s a superannuated nun rapping you on the knuckles so you won’t think about your dirty parts. It’s Jerry Falwell watching “Teletubbies” frame by frame to see if Tinky Winky is trying to turn him gay. Conservatism is everyone you never wanted to grow up to be. "

Something the Dog Said wrote: Liberals need to embrace the culture war, because we’re winning.

Funny how only about 20% of the population considers themselves liberal....if that's "winning", keep up the good work

As for the rest of that article, I've never seen so much broad brush unsubstantiated bullcrap in my life.

Sorry, but conservatism is about the tried and true. It's about responsibility for self and others. It's about self discipline and common sense.

chickaree wrote: Sorry, but conservatism is about the tried and true. It's about responsibility for self and others. It's about self discipline and common sense.

Agreed, but the liberals love to cherry pick individuals and transfer their views or actions to everyone else who is in opposition to liberalism....as this article clearly demonstrates. And yes, some conservatives do the same thing which just shows that both sides act the same way.

The language in this article is the same kind of reasoning racists use to justify their hatred....antecdotal examples used to paint a massive population of people as inferior.

If those two paragraphs prove anything it is that liberalism today contains nothing but demagoguery.

Progressivism is responsible for freedom? The same progressivism that wants me to pay 1/2 my income to the goverment? Sounds like sharecropping to me. I work for 12 months and you get six months of my hard work.
I risk my capital starting a business, but you get 25% of my profit. Doesn't sound very free to me. Sounds almost like a mob protection racket, pay me, or go to jail.

Thanks for posting up the paragraphs so I didn't waste my time clicking on the link.

Article is Brilliant,,, if you are an idiot.

This is kinda old but still holds true...
Liberal Democrats vs. Republicans

Posted on Monday, April 19, 2004 3:26:35 PM by Brytani

There's a HUGE Difference
CRIME: REPUBLICANS BELIEVE that the needs of the communities and law-abiding citizens must take priority over those of criminals.

Liberal Democrats have an extremist record of placing the rights of criminals above all, including freeing violent criminals on legal technicalities.


NATIONAL DEFENSE: REPUBLICANS BELIEVE that the only way to live free from foreign aggression is to maintain peace through strength.

Liberal Democrats would utilateraly disarm. They impose their agenda by continually voting to divert defense funds to expand social programs.

EDUCATION: REPUBLICANS BELIEVE that students must be challenged to learn in a school environment that is safe for students and teachers. Parents must be offered more opportunities and options and the massive bureaucracy must be reduced.

Liberal Democrats have imposed discredited social experiments upon our schools, dumbing down the curriculum. Together with left-wing union bosses, they fight attempts to reduce the bloated education bureaucracy.

TAXES: REPUBLICANS BELIEVE that Americans should keep more of what they earn through lower taxes and that tax policy should not suppress incentive by penalizing success.

Liberal Democrats relentlessly use propaganda to promote the failed premise that America can tax its way to prosperity. They wage class warfare against successful Americans through regressive taxes.

SPENDING: REPUBLICANS have long believed that government should not spend more than it takes in and have consistently fought for a balanced budget. (* My comment, this way be debateable, as of late)

Liberal Democrats have a sad history of spending taxpayers' money to expand government bureaucracy and fighting against a balanced budget.

MEDICARE/SOCIAL SECURITY: REPUBLICANS BELIEVE that the senior's safety net must be preserved for today's beneficiaries and for the millions who will need it tomorrow.

Liberal Democrats shamelessly scare and frighten our seniors, acting as if nothing needs to be done, offering no solutions to a true problem.

GOD: REPUBLICANS BELIEVE, as the founding fathers before us, that God was a major factor in the creation of this nation and that efforts to remove Him from society altogether must be reversed.

Liberal Democrats are aligned with extreme left-wing elements that God should be totally excluded from public utterances.

1 posted on Monday, April 19, 2004 3:26:36 PM by Brytani
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1120629/posts

Still holding true!!!!

JULY 31, 2006 ISSUE
COPYRIGHT © 2011 THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE

What's Wrong With the Democrats?
The identity-politics party doesn’t know how to appeal to middle Americans.
BY STEVE SAILER

Why have the Democrats proven so inept at electorally exploiting the growing evidence of the current Republican Party’s incompetence at governing? The Democrats certainly have a chance of doing well in the November elections, but why is this merely a possibility?

In 1980, just half a dozen years after the GOP’s Watergate humiliation, voters responded to the Carter administration’s failures by electing a Republican president and Senate and scaring enough House Democrats that Ronald Reagan was able to pass much of his agenda. After five-and-a-half years of George W. Bush’s presidency, it’s reasonably clear that he wasn’t qualified for the job and hasn’t exactly grown in office. The GOP establishment, which anointed Bush in 1999 even though many had personal experience of his unsuitability for the highest office, deserves punishment for negligence. Yet no Democrat—with the longshot exception of Virginia senatorial candidate James Webb—has emerged to offer the galvanizing change in direction and tone that Reagan once brought to the Republicans.

The satirical Onion headline earlier this year said it all: “Democrats Vow Not To Give Up Hopelessness.” If the voters turn to the Democrats this fall, it will only be as the lesser of two evils. America needs a less self-destructive Democratic Party, if just to keep Republican officeholders on their toes.

So, what’s wrong with the Democrats?

I’m going to speak more frankly than Democrats are used to hearing, but political correctness hurts them by shielding them from how the electorate really thinks. Although many Democrats would prefer to keep on losing, a few might want to know what ails them.

For 40 years, progressives have toiled tirelessly to replace interest-group politics with identity-group politics. But taking pride in one’s race is unseemly to the white majority, so partisan passions have become a sort of identity politics by other means for white people. Baby Boomers who once defined themselves by arguing over the Beatles vs. the Stones or George Lucas vs. Stanley Kubrick now express their self-conceptions by bickering over the Republicans vs. the Democrats.

The moment’s issues are less important than they often seem. In 2000, George W. Bush ran on a “humble” foreign policy and in 2004 on an arrogant one, yet the distribution of his votes by state and by demographic group barely flickered from one election to the next.

Still, some past Democratic failures were so egregious that—even though the media hardly mention them anymore (because the press shared the Democrats’ ill-chosen prejudices)—they continue to dog the electorate’s perception of the Democrats. Although we are constantly assured today that America was unified throughout the Cold War in opposition to the Soviet Union, the public at least vaguely recalls that during the Reagan years much of the Democratic Party wanted to beg the Soviets for mercy, almost up to the day the evil empire collapsed.

The Democrats’ other mark of Cain is the horrific 1964-1996 crime wave unleashed by the Great Society. After almost a quarter of a million excess murders and the reduction of great American cities like Detroit to wastelands, it was finally quelled by the old conservative nostrums of cutting welfare and locking crooks up and throwing away the key.

These were not fluke mistakes. Instead, they explain the unpopularity of the Democrats. Their common denominator was the Democrats’ tendency to sympathize more with foreign enemies and domestic delinquents than with their own country and their fellow citizens.

Read the rest at: http://amconmag.com/article/2006/jul/31/00007/