XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, can.politics, alt.society.liberalism
From: knicklas@plovdiv.bg
In article ,
Yoorghis@Jurgis.net says...
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> >Now....want to "debate" if Stalin or Lenin were 'conservative'?
>
> Go ahead and list the major characteristics of rightwing wing and
> conservative political ideology, you stupid fuckwit
Here's a list of the major tenets of conservatism from 'Human Events,
Tin Can:
1. God?s Law Governs Nations as Well as Men.
The Ten Commandments should not only be enshrined in our courthouses,
they should be engraved in our hearts and minds as guides to all
behavior, public and private. As the Founders acknowledged in the
Declaration of Independence, laws and policies that violate the natural
law are abuses of government power that must be resisted and reversed.
2. Life Is the First God-Given Right
It?s always wrong to deliberately take an innocent human life. When this
principle is abridged, violence escalates. Thus we have aborted 47
million unborn babies in the past three decades, begun to accept
euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide, and stand at the threshold of
cloning human beings for the specific purpose of killing them.
3. Marriage and Family Come Before the State and Deserve Its Protection
The marriage of one man and one woman is the natural foundation of all
human society, and the means by which children ought to be brought into
the world and taught the basic values of our civilization. Government
has a duty to recognize and protect the family and must not grant
alternative relationships the same status and privileges.
4. Freedom of Conscience is the Soul of Liberty
Understanding that freedom of conscience is at the heart of liberty, the
Framers protected freedom of religion and assembly in the 1st Amendment.
Movements to force the Boy Scouts to accept homosexual scout masters, or
to compel religious individuals or organizations to distribute birth
control or abortion drugs against their beliefs, directly attack these
freedoms.
5. Private Property is the Servant of Freedom
The more that individuals, families and businesses can acquire and
control the goods necessary to sustain and advance themselves, the more
autonomy they will have from the state and others who may wish to
unjustly restrict their freedom. The free and responsible use of private
property tends to create greater wealth and greater freedom for greater
numbers of people.
6. Government Dependency is the Seed of Tyranny
The more that individuals, families and businesses are dependent on the
state for the goods necessary to sustain and advance themselves, the
less autonomy they will have from the state and others who may wish to
unjustly restrict their freedom. This is why expanding the welfare state
is bad, and Social Security personal retirement accounts, Health Savings
Accounts and school choice are good.
7. The Constitution Means What It Says
Believing in the God-given rights of man and understanding the imperfect
nature of human beings, the Framers crafted a Constitution designed to
protect the former from the latter. Many of the problems in U.S.
government would be resolved if the President, Congress and Courts
limited themselves and each other to the authority the Constitution
actually grants them.
8. Taxes Are Justified Only to Fund Necessary Government Spending
A massive and complex tax code has become a powerful weapon politicians
can use to pressure citizens to behave as the politicians, or the
interest groups that support the politicians, wish. The correct function
of taxation is to equitably collect only that revenue needed to fund the
legitimate activities of a constitutionally limited government.
9. National Defense Is Just That
The first duty of the federal government is to defend the American
people against foreign enemies. While advancing freedom in the world is
good in itself?and, where it prudently can be done, would advance the
interests of the United States?ultimately, the mandate for our national
leaders is to use whatever moral means they can to carve out that path
in our relations with foreign powers that is most likely to lead to
enhanced security, prosperity and freedom for this nation.
10. We Should Strive to Give Our Children a Better Country
America is more than just an expanse of territory or a set of laws. It
is a culture, whose art, architecture, journalism, music, movies,
television, schools and universities, should reflect and reinforce the
traditional values that made this country great. We owe this to our
children, who will build the America of tomorrow on the foundation of
the America we teach them to love today.
Don't like those? Here's a different list with the same ends an
ideals in mind but stated far differently:
1)You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
2)You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
3)You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
4)You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
5)You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
6)You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
7)You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
8)You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
9)You cannot build character and courage by taking away men?s initiative
and independence.
10)You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and
should do for themselves.
Now take the items in either of these lists and tell me, in detail, how
they are shared by Stalin or Lenin or Mao or Pol Pot or Kim Il Sung.
See what a pathetic, government-housing-renting,tail-chasing pinhead you
are?
> Make me laugh at you
Are you laughing? I think not.
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