Aaaaaahh; the PASSION!!!

Ya just gotta love it!(?)

Actually, as I have come to know some of the professing "Liberals" in this community, I have generally found that at our seedy old cores, we are usually not really all that dissimmilar after all.

Sure, I'm a "Conservative"; I believe that America's greatest assetts are it's PEOPLE, not it's Government. I applaud opportunity and initiative, but expect to share accountability with my fellow Citizens for the choices we make. I certainly do not condone the exploitation or abuses of the past, be they perpetrated by slave-drivers or industrial "robber-barons", and have no intention of tolerating the like in our age. Conceeded, there was a time when labor organization was a positive factor in our Civilization - even neccessary. But what started out as a noble enteprise became all too quickly an avenue to power, and like the Church and Goverment in all too many cases, became itself an institution corrupted and defiled to the point where Labor Bosses were weilding their power for coersion, extortion, and exploitation of the free-market economy to the detriment of the working class they were formed to protect and advocate for.
No way I want to see greed, exploitation, or any such dehumanization going on here or anywhere else by thugs and goons of the private OR public sector... and I don't think we have to adhere to any particular political ideaology to espouse that sort of sentiment.

It seems that we often accept certain definitive stereotypes of people based on racial, religious, or political groupings or refferant groups (to name a very few). In my rantings, I probably do get a little "myopic", as Kendall suggests; passion will do that to a fellow on occasion. When I count to ten and cool off, I can usually accept the notion that probably not all "Liberals" are little Joe Stalins who really want to impose classical Communist tyranny on us or round us up in the middle of the night and drag us off to be shot if we ask too many questions. At least I hope not.
Most folk who follow that line seem sincerely compassionate, well intentioned and all that - but convinced that the solution to any problem is more government, more laws, and /or more money. Dependancy is seen a some sort of virtue, and the real heroes of American society are it's "victims".

Well, I don't see that as what made this country significant (if I use the term "great", no doubt some one will be terribly offended). And I don't see it being the path to our continued National significance.. or survival, for that matter, either.
And at the risk of sounding "paranoid", I have a disconcerting feeling that there are indeed a few influencial "liberals" out there who do have an agenda which is not nearly as altruistic as the majority of their followers; it involves power; lots of it - polarized and incontrovertable - in the hands of a relatively small ruling elite in which of course they expect to be included. Such a system has never boded well for peace or justice in any civilization, according to any history that I'm aware of.

Everywere it's been tried, it's been a disaster... and I don't want our America to be the scene of the next repetition of an outworn experiment.

Now can we all go back to the "Music" and play nicely together?