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February 16, 2007

Liberal Emotion Vs. Conservative Logic

Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions.
Ulysses S. Grant

Let's face the truth. It's a lot harder to be a Conservative than a Liberal. It requires more integrity, character, courage and strength. The reason is obvious, if you think about it with a clear head, something Liberals seem unable to do. Liberalism, at it's basic elements, is really nothing more than a childish emotionalism that is applied to adult issues. To the Liberal's mind, war is mean, so we can't go to war. That person is poor, so we need to give him money. That girl can't raise a child, so let her have an abortion. Those boys are gay, so who are we to say they can't be married? I'm special, because I want to stop global warming. If we're extra nice to those terrorists, they'll like us, and won't want to kill us. Liberals are nice people who love everybody, and want to make everybody happy and feel goooooooooooood. But Conservatives? Why, they're bigots, racists, homophobes, Nazis, fascists, nasty, evil, wicked, stupid and knuckledraggers. (I have actually been called that on a Liberal blog!) Listen, when you are trying to deal with complex, adult situations, emotionalism that is designed to make you "feel good" leads to disaster instead of solving real, adult problems. Liberals never learn from their past mistakes. They just keep repeating the same mistake over and over again. That's why we throw trillions of dollars at education or poverty or ghettoes, and these problems never improve. Liberals think we need to throw more. These same principles apply to America's ability to wage war. I served in Viet Nam, and I know from first hand experience what I'm talking about. South Vietnam was policing its own country and holding off aggression from the North with the help of the United States. But, people get hurt in wars, so wars are bad. As a result of thinking that went no deeper than that, liberals in Congress cut off the aid and air support we promised the South Vietnamese. Every night, Americans turned on their TV sets, not to the atrocities committed by North Viet Nam, but body counts of American dead. The results of Liberal feelgoodism in Viet Nam? The conquest of South Vietnam, a holocaust in Cambodia, millions dead and in prison camps, another million boat people, a crisis of confidence in America, and our country's reputation around the world was left in tatters, which led to a revolution in Nicaragua, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and a lack of faith in the U.S. military which wasn't truly restored until Operation Desert Storm. So, we're talking about one of the most shameful and damaging mistakes in American history. Yet, the left is pushing to do the same thing in Iraq, despite the fact that catastrophic consequences would surely also follow a U.S. retreat in that country. But Liberals aren't happy with interferring in just anti-war crap. Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" resulted in spending trillions, that's T-r-i-l-l-i-o-n-s, on poverty, but did nothing to reduce the poverty rate. What it DID do was to help drive the illegitimacy rate among black Americans from 22% in 1960 to 70% in 2005. Liberalism ALWAYS generates the exact opposite of it's stated intent. There is no shortage of such examples.Rent control? Resulted in housing shortages. Minimum wage? Cost poor people employment opportunity. That's what happens when you put feeling good over doing what is right. Unlike Liberals, Conservatives are realists. They concern themselves with looking at the way things are, not what we would like them to be. That's why Conservatives respect traditions and institutions such as marriage and limited government. Conservatives respect and approve of things that have proven to work over a long period of time, and see no reason to change. If it's not broke, don't fix it. Conservatives are not against change, because progress revolves around change, but the concept of tinkering with proven concepts creates a more likely chance that they will quit working. Conservatives regularly do something that liberals seldom do: they consider the long-term consequences of their policies. Sometimes in politics, that's a tough duty. It's always easier to say, "We're going to use someone else's tax money to give you this right now," than it is to say, "We're going to keep government out of your way and let you do this for yourself." But, that's the path conservatives have chosen for themselves. They’re willing to be attacked and called, in some form or fashion, "mean" in order to advocate policies that are good for the country. In the end, that's what liberalism versus conservatism all comes down to: sappy, feel good emotionalism that sounds appealing, but doesn't work versus doing things the right way, even when it's not easy.
Marshal Will Kane

Posted by Marshal Will Kane at February 16, 2007 03:21 PM Posted to Commentary

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