Remodeling Maidiac
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And you say you hold fast to 90% of your conservative beliefs. Lolololololololol
I don't see how ANYONE could ever not consider you a fraud.
Yep, I do. Let me list some. A few Tea Party folks may wanna take note and remember them as well:
Humility: Realizing that no single person is responsible for all their success, that we are all helped by many others along our way in life, and any success should be taken with a humble nod to those who helped.
Gratitude: Of realizing we all need help along the way, and being appreciative to those who helped. Our teachers, cops, soldiers, coworkers, the employees we hire. Our families. Realizing that an arrogant attitude is not a conservative value.
Honesty: Being true to what one believes. And not be scared or too proud to admit we all, at one point, needed some help.
Charity: Realizing that charity is good. It's good for individual people. And...charity is a great help for society. Also realizing that SOME causes, some societal needs, will NEVER be funded by charity because volunteerism never works if there is no emotion involved. Which is why our Founding Fathers enabled the country to have a functioning tax system, a collective pot that society chips into, and a few trusted, elected representitives will use that pot to fund those societal needs.
Respect for Authority: This once was a bedrock of the right wing, and a major part of why I was part of it. Having respect for the military, for the police, for teachers, etc. Now, they are all labeled in an umbrella of evil, greedy government workers that need to be slashed down to size.
I could go on and on and on.
And I truly believe 90% of my conservative values remain. It is the right wing ideology that changed, not me.
My other 10% that aligns more with the left tends to be about weed, gay marriage and animal rights. That too has not changed.
Fail
Major fail
Those are everyday human values. To say they are exclusive to the right is a complete joke