Why Conservatives Have Trouble Getting Elected
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The reasons that I could never get elected to any government positionis the same reason why conservatives have a tough time getting electedand, if they end up elected, can’t govern in this era of theill-educated voter. First I’ll lay out my main principles…Leave me aloneStop taxing meShove your regulation


The reason that I could never get elected to any government position isthe same reason why conservatives have a tough time getting electedand, if they end up elected, can't govern in this era of theill-educated voter. First I'll lay out my main principles...
Leave me alone
Stop taxing me
Shove your regulation
TBC

That'sabout it. Though there are complexities and nuance contained in them,these are the main tenets of modern conservatism simply put. Andtherein lies the problem. How can one get elected when his basic tenetsare that government should do less, stay out of our lives, and mostlygo unnoticed and unseen? In essence a conservative is saying: "Elect meand I'll do nothing for you." It's a tough message to sell in a daywhen people have lost touch with the American principles that arecontained in those very tenets.

Leave Me Alone
Thetrue conservative American does not want welfare or governmentinvolvement in his daily life. A real American wants government to shutup about his kids, his education, his religion and his home and hearth.A real American wants the freedom to make his own way in life, to grabfor the brass ring without government holding him back. A true Americanis a self-reliant, family centric being that simply wants hisgovernment to leave him alone. This means that government must alsostay out of it when men fail, too, and a good conservative understandsthis.

Stop Taxing Me
Areal American understands that some taxes are necessary but feels thatthe up to 60 percent of his income (depending on where you live) thatis currently stolen by greedy government do-nothings is exorbitant. Atrue American does not want to pay for illegal aliens to get hearttransplants, or mentally disturbed people to get sex changes, or forgovernment to pay for infanticide. A real American also has sometrouble seeing his hard earned tax dollars going to third worlddictators as "aid." And a real American really hates it whenpoliticians and government placemen retire at age 50 to live on manytimes more money in government pensions than anyone in the privatesector is ever likely to see. The waste, graft, and corruption ingovernment is something that makes the average American wary of hisgovernment but makes a conservative sick to his stomach.

Shove Your Regulations
Atrue American does not want a government hack coming into his back yardto tell him how to build a shed and then charging him, perhaps,hundreds of dollars, for a "permit" for the privilege of building it. Areal conservative has a problem with a government forcing itself on himat every turn charging him fees and licensing costs as he tries tostart a business that will feed both his family and his employee'sfamilies. A real conservative knows that NO business is "too big tofail," nor should any ever be considered so.
These principlesessentially mean that conservatives have expectations that the citizentells government what to do, not the other way around, and that hewants the room to make his own way free from constant interference andnanny state hectoring.

Therewas a time when Americans celebrated this independence of spirit. Thiscelebration also helped instill that reticence for overreach in eachsucceeding generation. In fact, there was more than "a time" when thiswas celebrated, it was the normal American principle until theloathsome counter culture got all up in everyone's business -- and eventhe hippies, dippies, and yippies started off wanting "the man" toleave them alone even as their cause quickly devolved into anauthoritarian we-know-better-than-the-man end game.
Unfortunately,as the yippies began to realize that the hated democracy they lived ingave them the right to work inside the system to obliterate it, and asthese same anti-Americans weaved their baleful influence into oureducation system starting most heavily in the 1960s, they've displacedthe American spirit with a cancer called modern liberalism.

Nowour educational system teaches dependence, fealty to big government,and self-loathing. It teaches that American exceptionalism is bad andthat European ideas are "better."
As a result of thismis-educational system we are now weighted down with, we are disgorginginto the greater world from those flagellation stations we call"schools" citizens that mindlessly expect that politicians exist onlyto "give us stuff." The individualist spirit that expected governmentto leave us alone is now subdued, replaced with a spirit of looking togovernment as mommy. It is a mommy, though, with apron strings thatstrangle us to death.
And then conservatives stride forth askingfor votes and are portrayed as uncaring because they say cut taxes, cutregulations, cut big government.

Then,if lucky enough to get elected and in order to be loved by the mediaand indulging a misplaced concept of "the people" born of theirWashingtonitis, they turn into liberals when elected. They do so in amistaken belief that it is the only way of being reelected, but it is aself-induced fantasy born of their craving for power.
And thatleaves me asking my government to get lost. And it also so firmlycloses the door on any chances I might have to affect my governmentfrom the inside.
Quite the dilemma, isn't it?
And the answer, the solution to this dilemma?
Retakethe initiative in our schools. Get rid of the anti-American educationalestablishment. Bust the unions, fire the tenured professors, dump thefalse doctrines of "wymin's" studies, stop pretending Marx is a worthyphilosopher, and again teach our children why America is a great nation.

Wecan bring back our American first principles. But it won’t be easy andit won’t be quick. It also won’t happen with electing just one leader.It will take all of us as a movement to effect these changes to returnus to our greatness. It will take all of us to defeat the moralrelativism so firmly entrenched in our schools. It will take aconcerted effort to defeat this anti-Americanism but it can be done.
Thanks for reading

Maria, i love the "government to leave the people alone" part..
repeal the Blue Laws finally!!!