night_son
Diamond Member
All one need do is take a brief reading tour of human history to observe the primeval cycle of conservatism grounding liberalism, liberalism sparking out from conservatism, and finally, conservatism saving liberalism from its forays out onto the frontier of the inhuman. Conservatism is the most human of primal ideologies as it represents and encompasses the biological human lifecycle, as well as mirrors the most ancient cycle of human social development, from birth to death.
A child is born. He grows to young adulthood under the relentless yolk of his Father's will. He rebels against the Father (liberalism) and escapes the den. Throughout his life the child--now a man--rails against teachings of the Father and experiments with forays beyond the known. In doing so, he frees the nucleus of his thoughts and expands his intellect. Much later in life, decades and years out from the den, across many bridges, the man turns around--now confident in his long roaming freedom from the yolk of the Father--and begins his journey back home--toward the den that now exists only in his heart and mind (conservatism). The cycle is completed.
Liberalism can represent the foray out into the unknown from the oppressive and limited known. However, what pure intellectual liberalism lacks in its inherent composition is a failsafe--an inherent sense of caution from which to abort its escape from the known, to retreat from danger before crossing points of no return, and it holds within its nucleus no innate sense of sympathy or compassion for self or race, collectively. Liberalism is the dream held by all whose final achievement and realization is always much more than the dreamers bargained for. Conservatism is the failsafe, the disciplinarian, and the incarnation of personal responsibility, which is God for all--within the self, not dogmatic, or outside self.
And finally, Liberalism in its most radicalized manifestation is a being of clinical indifference; indifferent to the natural suffering of the living human condition, whereas conservatism is a being of such compassion that it will oppress and limit by force its own children--in its most extreme incarnation--to prevent the embodiment of liberalism from destroying them.
Nowhere else but in modern America can the balancing on the precipice of the above historical cycle be better illustrated. The American Left seeks equality for all yet removes equality from some to achieve it. The American Left would provide minimum guaranteed wages and benefits to all, yet the taxation required to pay for such programs would severely limit their individual, personal effectiveness. The American Left would relax our border security, welcome in millions of immigrants and award them benefits of citizenship without it, while providing these new masses with the right to suffrage--all at great and severe financial and cultural costs to Americans living here for many generations.
The American Left would promote the personal preferences of a very small percentage of American citizens so oppressively as to infringe on the Constitutional rights of the majority, all the while indoctrinating our young minds into these group identity cults in the name of universal acceptance and tolerance. And finally, the American Left would sell out our sitting American President, a man focused on protecting the homeland at all costs, for the needs of the citizenry of other continents and foreign states. The American Left has for decades pushed the American people toward the precipice they now stand on edge of, one foot in the air staring thousands of feet at the drop below. Now, as has always been the case in the ancient cycle of history, it is once again time for conservatism to turn our nation away from the edge, and to retreat to the safety of the ancient known; to the foundations of our human beginnings.
