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innerSpaceman · 10-18-2006, 08:33 AM

Believe it or not, I was a staunch conservative in college.

It was a phase.

Before and since, I've been a liberal progressive, which politically puts me in the voting camp for the Democrats, unless a particularly interesting green or libertarian or independent candidate comes along.

For the same reasons given much more eloquently by Strangler Lewis, I have never been able to support the Republican Party or the Conservative movement or the Christian ideologists. My family was democratic, but hardly politically active. Yet the way I was raised and the very nature of my intrinsic soul have determined my political leanings. I tend to be very absolutist about certain things, so I'll just come right out and say it ...

Good vs. Evil.

Which political direction is compassionate, which is hateful? Which is based on greed, which on generosity?

I know many good people who claim to be conservatives, but I believe they are rationalizing things and/or deluding themselves. While I'm all for pulling one's self up by one's bootstraps, I draw the line at the every-man-for-himself philosophy that is perhaps the best thing that can be said about the conservative impulse.

I think the widespread economic prosperity that took hold in the latter half of 20th-Century America has been the pinnacle of human civilization, and thus the height of goodness for eons and time and hundreds of light years around. I am certainly not interested in supporting the forces that want to turn back that achievement. I cannot support poverty or discrimination or hatred or violence or war or greed.

Good vs. Evil. It's a choice. One you can make at any time, and have to make often regardless of how you've chosen before.

Heheh, it's not too late, you conservatives and republicans and christian ideologists. Look it up in the dictionary. "Good." Check out what Jesus the Christ had to say about it, if that suits you. Ask your mother, if she's still around. Or consult with Jiminy Cricket. And, without lying to yourself, look inside to find out if what you're doing is Good or not, whether it's based on fear or based in love.

sorry to get all preachy. but unlike Alex, I think good people coming to differently reasonable points of view works only to a certain point ... after which, I simply can't abide people who want to hurt other people.

10-18-2006, 08:33 AM	#10
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Believe it or not, I was a staunch conservative in college. It was a phase. Before and since, I've been a liberal progressive, which politically puts me in the voting camp for the Democrats, unless a particularly interesting green or libertarian or independent candidate comes along. For the same reasons given much more eloquently by Strangler Lewis, I have never been able to support the Republican Party or the Conservative movement or the Christian ideologists. My family was democratic, but hardly politically active. Yet the way I was raised and the very nature of my intrinsic soul have determined my political leanings. I tend to be very absolutist about certain things, so I'll just come right out and say it ... Good vs. Evil. Which political direction is compassionate, which is hateful? Which is based on greed, which on generosity? I know many good people who claim to be conservatives, but I believe they are rationalizing things and/or deluding themselves. While I'm all for pulling one's self up by one's bootstraps, I draw the line at the every-man-for-himself philosophy that is perhaps the best thing that can be said about the conservative impulse. I think the widespread economic prosperity that took hold in the latter half of 20th-Century America has been the pinnacle of human civilization, and thus the height of goodness for eons and time and hundreds of light years around. I am certainly not interested in supporting the forces that want to turn back that achievement. I cannot support poverty or discrimination or hatred or violence or war or greed. Good vs. Evil. It's a choice. One you can make at any time, and have to make often regardless of how you've chosen before. Heheh, it's not too late, you conservatives and republicans and christian ideologists. Look it up in the dictionary. "Good." Check out what Jesus the Christ had to say about it, if that suits you. Ask your mother, if she's still around. Or consult with Jiminy Cricket. And, without lying to yourself, look inside to find out if what you're doing is Good or not, whether it's based on fear or based in love. sorry to get all preachy. but unlike Alex, I think good people coming to differently reasonable points of view works only to a certain point ... after which, I simply can't abide people who want to hurt other people.
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