Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Why People Are Conservatives, and Other Random Thoughts.

I hate people who don't really know anything, or even really care, about issues but call themselves liberals. They are really conservatives because they don't care enough to challenge the status quo. A very simple definition of a conservative is a person who is happy enough with how things are that they don't agitate for change. The people who are apathetic are therefore conservatives. This is different from being lacking compassion.

If somebody asks you to sign a petition to get a 3rd party candidate on the ballet, sign it. Election laws are very unfairly tilted towards only allowing the two traditional parties on the ballet. A plus to getting Nader and company on the ballet is that they will take votes away from the two left-wing nuts still duking it out for the democratic nomination.

I saw diesel prices hit $5 per gallon today, and up go the farmer's costs and therefore food prices.

I really don't understand what the feminist movement is all about.

Illinois is going into emergency legislative session again if they don't agree on a budget by the end of the week, and as much as I would love the federal government to adopt a balanced budget amendment, this scares me what would happen on a national scale.

Illegal Immigrants are criminals, and should be treated as such.

4 comments:

Fidelbogen said...

"I really don't understand what the feminist movement is all about."

Don't feel bad; you aren't supposed to understand what it's really about.

The fact that you "don't understand" actually shows that you do IN FACT understand a lot more than you realize. It shows that you have set your foot upon the road of knowledge, for confusion is the first step toward transcending *false* knowledge.

False knowledge is what plenty of people who have bought into the "child's coloring book" version of feminism are afflicted with. That stuff is sucker bait for simpletons, meant to keep them from learning what feminism is *really* about. (Patsies make good foot-soldiers!)

Anyway, prepare to exit the matrix! ;)

Amelia said...

I have no idea what you just said, fidel. What coloring book!? I want one!!

(The Korean) Andrew said...

I'm not happy with things the way they are. Gas prices (and thus everything that must be transported) are up. Petroleum companies pull record profits, no one does anything about it. Civilians are being killed by mercenaries hired in lieu of fixing our military numbers, and our military is deployed in a country that did not attack us (despite all the negative sentiments), the nations education and health care system are clusterfucked, and my gay friends are told that they will enjoy an eternity of hell, and my friends who are women are told they are worth less than people with penises.

I want these things to change. That is why I am a liberal.

(The Korean) Andrew said...

also I avoid hating people.