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What Do Conservatives Really Want?

Dealing with people of a liberal political persuasion can be befuddling.

I got birthday wishes from a long-time friend the other day. That friend is a self-described liberal. The email concluded by saying, “I’m sure you will consider it successful if you annoy as many liberals as possible!”

That’s what liberals do. They accuse conservatives of what liberals themselves do. Well, to put the record straight, I replied to my friend that this is what my conservative friends say they want:

We just want to buy the kinds of lightbulbs we want, have our friends send their kids to the schools they want, exercise our 2nd Amendment right without having to pay a fee to the government, buy the kind of health insurance we want, buy cars with the gas mileage we want, enter the open-air WWII memorial without harassment from state police, stop ballot box fraud, give people the right to work without fear of union thugs, uphold private sector contracts without government officials taking sides, stop government agencies from manipulating markets, stop government from borrowing to pay the debt they run up and that we all will have to pay off, keep idiots from telling me what is good for me and forcing me to do things I hate to do because of it, discontinue the policies of robbing productive people to pay off political cronies. I could go on…

Actually I would have considered my birthday successful if for just one day we all enjoyed freedom from the coercion of busybody  politicians.
But while I’m thinking about it, I would have liked to see government officials held to the same laws that company CEOs are held to, like truth in advertising and Sarbanes-Oxley. In that case, Obama, Reid, and Pelosi would have been put in jail. Yeah, that would have made me happy too.
And you know what response I got to my list above. My friend wrote, “I agree with some of those things, it’s not just a liberal problem. Gotta go!”
That’s what Rush Limbaugh calls a “drive by.” Wouldn’t you just love to know which things on my list my friend does NOT agree with? Kind of scary. And “it’s not just a liberal thing?” Really? Which of those things do conservatives want to impose on society?
Bottom line: Conservatives love freedom, self reliance and limited government. Liberals hate all that, because they are just sure they know better than the rest of us what is good for all of us. Just imagine what life would be like today under Obama if the original colonies had not insisted on the Bill of Rights. Makes me shudder.

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