President Coolidge best stated the conservative philosophy of government: The chief business of the American people is business. Wrong! Our chief business is exactly as stated in the preamble to our Constitution: to... promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity
For a Liberal, Liberty means minimal regulation of personal life and adequate regulation of business: Democracy. For a Conservative, Liberty means minimal regulation of business and maximal regulation of personal life: Fascism. We do not live in a pure democracy, (50%+1), we live in a democratic republic which protects the rights of the minority. I believe you are wrong when you try to describe conservatism as being the same as fascism. I would say the today's left is inclusive to the point of wanting to micro manage and control every aspect of ones life, this leads to an elite plutocracy dictatorship. I would further say the right is exclusive in that it dislikes change. I would further say the right is exclusive to the point of chaos in many ways, with everyone wanting to go their own way. This in turn leads to an elite plutocracy dictatorship while different from the left the results on the are eerily the same, loss of freedom and liberty. That's how I see it.
Yes, there was a time when Welfare was a good idea and when Posterity was the most important concern. The Founding Liberals understood that a nation without a thriving young generation faces its doom. Care of the young is the highest priority of every animal on Earth- except the Conservative! Mother Nature is a Liberal!
The Conservatives belief that Liberals want equality of wealth is a self-induced hallucination. Conservatives want to provide equality of opportunity for all children, regardless of parentage, but do not believe government largesse is the answer. To thrive, all children must get all the health care, food, shelter, and play they need and as much free education as they can absorb, from prenatal through university. It is the responsibility of the parents to see that their children are provided with the needs you suggest, not the government.
A level playing field and equal opportunity from the moment of conception are the liberals core beliefs. Who are you bull shitting, yourself? When 99% of all scientific discoveries are made by 1% of all scientists, providing excellent care and education only for children of the rich will not produce enough brilliant leaders in technology, industry, and government. If you want all the cream, you have to milk all the cows. Where did those numbers come from? If you want what you say, break the strangle hold leftist liberalism has on the school systems through out the nation. Then get the Marxist/democrat leftist liberals out of government and its functions. It's obvious that after 50-60 years of making our larger cities third world countries and bankrupting their states, Marxist/democrats have failed their constituency miserably.
Because support for children by local taxes inevitably result in deprived areas, federal spending must finance all care of the young. Now there's an idea whose time has come, how's that working out for leftist liberal Marxist/democrats presently? Not so good huh? Looks more like a Communist utopia at work to me, read the following:
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. [1]
The first part of the principlefrom each according to their abilitymeans that all members of society will have the right and the actual opportunity to develop their talents and abilities to the utmost and to use their talents to produce goods and services for the benefit of society. In other words, everyone will have an education that allows them to realize their highest potential and a job in which they will have the opportunity to give their best efforts back to society. There will be no uneducated or poorly educated people, no unemployment, and no one will be forced by economic necessity to work in fields unsuited to their abilities. The second part of the principleto each according to their needsexplains what citizens will receive from society in return for their labor, and that will be nothing less than complete satisfaction of their material and cultural needs.
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Non-discretionary income should never be taxed and discretionary income should be taxed progressively because the rich spend progressively more than others. More of the same Marxist bull shit.
Conservatives hold the opposite view. They believe children should be rewarded or punished depending on how well or how poorly they choose their parents. Another leftist liberal Marxist bull shit line, and no one gets to choose their parents good or bad. They want the care of the young to be the responsibility of the parents and they would prefer schools financed by local taxes and controlled by local school boards. so that quality of education is doled out according to class and so that fundamentalist school boards can teach creationism. Another leftist liberal Marxist bull shit line if I ever saw one!
Instead of taxing wealthy estates, consisting mostly of never-taxed capital gains and municipal bond interest, they would endow the least productive segment of society: children of the rich. Since Congress can be bought, wealth is power and inherited wealth is inherited power aristocracy, the survival and triumph of the incompetent - the exact opposite of democracy, the exact opposite of meritocracy. This is dishonesty and corruption. Conservatism is a crime against Nature! Speaking of crimes against nature, I see leftist liberal progressive Marxist/democrats supporting queer marriage and a perversion now of men trying to be women and women trying to be men, even though that is impossible. Some how I see this as of late being a leftist liberal progressive Marxist/democrat trait. To further argue your point, I don't see rich democrats sending their children to inner city schools, their children go to the best elite private schools with armed guards protecting them. I will concede that rich Rino Republicans do the same for their children too.
Conservatives believe the tax burden should be shifted from the rich to the middle class, from capital to labor. They would create a polarized generation: a small aristocracy and a large underclass - a lost generation. This is a complete betrayal of the Founding Liberals.
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