You said lately I seem to be getting more conservative. I can see your point of view. The reason that it seems that way is that when we were rooting for the Obama candidacy, I was mostly concerned about our oil dependence, too many wars, and Bush's complete lack of fiscal sanity. Obama looked great on paper on each of those issues. However, now my priority that supercedes all others is the economy. And I am first and foremost a fiscal conservative. Always have been on the budget, although I believe in progressive taxation. So now that Obama has doubled down on Bush's terrible Keynesianism, I'm understandably even more perturbed and my fiscal conservatism is coming out in spades.
Now, if all these issues went away and all we talked about were social policies, I think you'd start to think I was a Democrat again, because I am pretty much a Social Liberal. I don't think the government should get involved in our social lives at all, which means I believe if gays want to get a civil marriage certificate, then our government should grant them one. And although, I'm against abortion, I believe it is the woman's right to make her own decisions, because I don't believe the government has the right to impose any religious standards on anyone (separation of church and state). And I'm just as liberal on pretty much every other social issue.
But yes, I'm a fiscal conservative of the very right wing variety. I don't believe in borrowing from China, stealing from the American people by printing money from thin air, spending more than we raise in taxes, or borrowing from my children to pay for things I want today. Those things I think are unethical. They are values-based for me, not opinion based. Not to mention, that I'm a student of history, and history is quite clear on these issues. Every country in history that was a super-power and engaged in these tactics ended up seriously regretting it and all eventually lost their super power status. I hope that doesn't happen to us. We'd better get fiscally responsible soon or history will repeat itself with the US, which in my book is the greatest nation the world has ever known. |
