Its been over a year since I decided I was no longer a good fit for the right wing conservative ideology. Everyone on here remembers me from the years past. I was as much of a yellow-rattlesnake flying right winger as anyone could imagine. But I didn't know why. Just because my peers and politicians in this area said I should be. Until I spent some time and really figured my values out. Since separating myself from the right wing, a few things are different that I never thought would be:
- I don't hate taxes. Sure, no one loves paying it. But, with the nonsense no longer clouding my thought, I see it for what it is. I like our roads. Our cops, our firemen, our military...I'm grateful for all of them. I don't have kids in school, but I'm glad we have them. It educates my younger peers, and that is a good thing. Welfare? Sure, it's abused. So is beer and internet. But would I rather those people starve? No. So I pay some taxes that go to welfare, and some gets wasted. That thought just reminds me that I'm lucky enough to not be on welfare, but helping pay for it. That's a good thing. I like buying food and knowing its been inspected and held to standards. I hear about other less fortunate nations and large numbers of people dying from food and pollution..........that could have been prevented with some simple oversight. I do not want to defund or abolish agencies that do these thankless jobs, and I realize my taxes fund that.
- I don't oppose gay marriage or weed; Im neither gay, nor a weed smoker. But, again, without all the people telling me to oppose it just....well, just because I need to........I can clearly see that neither of those harm me or my family. So whose business is it to ban either? Not mine. And not my government's. If you believe in a God, then its between you and your God. But I no longer oppose either. Both are harmless to me and my family. And neither me nor my government has a right to ban something that does no harm. I thought that was a conservative principle at one time.....and still should be.
- I no longer support war unless it is unavoidable. Support the troops, yes, absolutely. But they deserve our best. If we cant afford to take care of them when they return from a war, then we shouldn't be sending them. Again, taxes pay for that. I'm sickened by the war hawk politicians....who have private defense industry lobbyists at dinner with them. Those companies need war to stay in business. Our troops deserve better.
It truly is liberating to just analyze an ideology you adhere to from a distance and deciding for yourself if it is for you. You'll see that you may be doing it just because others tell you that you should.
Bucs90! I really don't know ANY conservative that is totally against paying taxes.. after all they pay most of them!
Not one conservative is against roads. Common defense of the country. Many firemen are conservatives as cops! So why would they as public employees and TAX payers be conservative?
But what these cops,firemen,etc. are against these types of uses of tax money..
as was Obama when he promised to "And when I'm president,
I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
PolitiFact | Obama's promise to go after earmarks 'line by line'
- spend $2.6 million to make sure prostitutes in China drink less on the job.
- $1.44 million in federal funds estimating the size of the population and examining the “social milieu” of male prostitutes in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City,
- on-tax-dollars-spent-to-study-male-prostitutes-in-vietnam
- Washington spends $25 billion annually maintaining unused or vacant federal properties
So if we take Obama at his word that he went through the budget LINE by LINE and approved spending TAX dollars that could go to soldiers, et.al. on Chinese/Vietnamese prostitutes???
Then we conservatives are trying to understand how people like you support a President that :
1)wants higher gas prices... and he's getting them!
2)wants skyrocketing utility prices... getting that!
3)beloved by the Muslim world... hmmmm
4)has more people on food stamps... isn't that a good thing?
5)Moving more people off health insurance and charging higher premiums in the process... that's good isn't it??
6)Disapproving more oil leases on Federal lands then any President... now that's good for global warming right?
7)Tells Brazil we'll be their best oil customer... right that should be any President's priority making USA more oil dependent!
Are these all attributes you admire as a converted conservative???
You like paying higher gas prices, higher utilities, making the USA more dependent on foreign oil, destroying $100 billion a year in tax revenue while putting 400,000 people out of work and add more people to the SNAP program?
YOU are in favor of all of that???
...he went searching the board to dig up something to throw in your face and it was SATIRE....and he accuse others of arrogance..
