Conservatism
is great. Political conservatism that
demands limited government, adherence to the Constitution and personal freedom
is the America of old. This America hasn’t
existed for at least a hundred years and when it did, the country wasn’t big enough
to handle that much freedom. One man’s
freedom began to intrude upon the freedom of others and the government had to
grow to mediate. This is an
oversimplification but for this discussion, the point being made is that conservatism
has never been a political or societal cure all.
Conversely,
today’s political landscape has reached an extreme dependence upon big
government, robbing America of the God given freedoms passed to us by the
founders of our nation. Both political
parties have contributed to this American demise but for different reasons, the
Democrats are willing to trade freedom for societal control and the Republicans
are willing to trade freedom for economic control. Both parties have gotten what they wanted but
we the people have gotten shafted because politics is no longer about us.
The
political debate for 2016 is largely about labels such as conservatism. The National Review, a conservative magazine
has gathered more than 20 of their brothers to bash Donald Trump for being,
according to their criteria, a phony conservative. These are radio, TV and print personalities
who trade on their conservatism and will accept nothing short of their purist
understanding of the term. The people do
not matter, the fact that the working and middle class are paying for their
retrenchment does not matter. They are,
after all, selling their wares.
Our country
must change course and retreat toward the conservative principles that gave our
nation such a great beginning but it won’t happen tomorrow. First the bleeding must be stopped, first aid
says apply a tourniquet, the people say apply Donald Trump. There is no other logical choice. A purist conservative candidate will never win
the 2016 general election with our divided national electorate. The people ask, how long must we put up with a
conservative movement that is content to be only the loyal opposition, content
to be losers?
The working and
the middle classes of American are angry, our wellbeing has been ignored by our
politicians who they lie and deceive to keep us under foot. The Pied Piper has spoken the two words that
matter most to us, jobs and borders. No
longer will Wall Street and the too big to fail banks be allowed to destroy the
American wage earner in order to open exports to feed the big corporations and
the stock market. That is a heavy price
to pay for 1% of the GDP and who picks up that check? No longer are we content to allow an open
borders policy made possible by our politicians of both parties who are being
paid to bring in cheaper labor. America
has become wretchedly immoral.
Pie in the
sky conservatism will not help our take home pay next week. Why do they and all the other politicians
avoid the magic words? That’s right,
they too are on the payroll of those lobbyists in Washington D.C. Mr. Trump is the only person on the ballot
who is free of these lobbyists and is willing to say the magic words.
Will a Trump
presidency stop the bleeding? Who knows,
at least the people will get the opportunity to stick it to those blood sucking
politicians. This is the only option
left for the people and it feels so very good, even better than sex.
G.Goslaw
Landers, CA
