I am a conservative. There I said it. Not a full on Libertarian because I believe in might and a moral right. Not a Progressive because I reject the advocacy for paternalism of the state. So what does being a conservative mean?  A conservative, as I define it,  is simply a believe structure that serves a speed bump on the road to serfdom. The road to serfdom is paved with good intentions. What is the difference between an evil bank enslaving a homeowners in a bad mortgage and a government that enslaves current and future generations in debts based on good intentions? These argument always airs on the side of class whom would use the state to guarantee egalitarian outcomes.  How is that fair?  It is because fair is a relative term and not an absolute in which to govern the affairs of man simply because it is subjective.  What are these arguments? We are enslaved by Oil companies, mass media, drug companies, Wall Street name your favorite capitalistic entities.  Name any culprit that gets in the way of the fair redistribution necessary for a socialist utopia and you’ll see a familiar reframe for villainization.  But that elusive utopia must enslave to assist. I have seen enough of the world to know that man has a propensity to enslave his fellow man under the most benevolent of intentions (at first), but it boils down to enslavement none the less.  There is nothing wrong with compassion, but the rhetoric employed to guilt the majority to fend for the minority is morally suspect.  We must always be skeptical of those whom wish to or seek the power to lord over men; public servants, private entities or otherwise. The only lord over man is his GOD and from that GOD man derives reason. That reason has allow mankind to shape his environment to his comfort to survive. Conservatives are maligned and castigated because we believe in these things that work every time they are implement.  These believes are capitalism for good or ill as the greater generator and distributor of wealth in human history; religion as an anchor derived from our biblical text, which codifies our human morality utilizing that reason GOD has bestowed us to write “the rules†down; might, because a man has no rights for which he refuses to defend; and finally life and freedom to live it as one sees fit.  I will be the first to admit they are not always implemented cleanly or eloquently, but what is. This is my mantra. My manifesto. In my community this does not make me any friends, but every problem I see in the world and solution I suggests conforms to these beliefs. Remember that always.
Side note: I have not blogged in months but I feel I need to get something off my chest.  I was having a conversation with a colleague of mine about the benefits of blogging.  His parents had recently passed and he always wondered what his parents where doing or thinking as they raised him and his siblings. What were there thoughts and fears ans the years went on?  They left no diaries nor memoirs. Nor were there many letters written. We are blessed today that we have so many avenue in which to express ourselves for posterity sake. As long as data remains portable, I want something to pass on to my girls as they get older about the man I was and why I raised them the way I did. So this post is more for them 30+ years from now than for my many followers.Â