I’ve noticed that intellectually minded people are quite rational and are willing to consider the issues carefully. Ideologues just have faith that their leaders have the right answers to everything. Their lives must be very simple black and white.
I don’t understand anymore how anyone can be Republican and conservative at the same time.
Conservatives support:
– Small government
– Low spending and saving for the rainy days
– Free markets
– No government intrusion into private matters
– No nation building
– Privacy protection
– State Rights
– Freedoms guaranteed by the constitution
– Separation of Church and State
Republicans support:
– Nation building in Iraq
– Unlimited debt spending
– Power of government to review private records
– Warrantless wiretapping of American citizens
– Prayer in school
– Federal intervention into private family matters
– Bailing out of powerful businesses interests
– Funneling public money to religious organizations
The Republican Party today is not the party I used to know.
