Why I Hate Modern Conservatism

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The American Enterprise Institute's Peter Wallison has a nice piece in today's Washington Post. Wallison rightfully argues against treating ordinary Americans like idiots who can't decide for themselves what's good for them.

A niece piece? What does nice mean? Use proper English when pretending to be a Conservative. Nice means something, as all real Conservatives will admit. "He's a nice guy", "he was nice to me" "I'm a nice person". Last time I checked nice guys finish last. National Review really sucks for publishing such a moron. People writing about serious issues should never be "nice" or use such a stupid word, if they really mean or care about what they are writing.

Conservatives have always argued that liberals are elitists who do not respect ordinary Americans; this legislation seems to prove it..

Actually conservatives haven't always argued that liberals are eltitists; this is a modern problem. Any sane, properly educated, person would recognize.

For example, the administration's plan would allow the educated and sophisticated elites to have access to whatever financial services they want but limit the range of products available to ordinary Americans

This has been true of all societies for all time and barring a communist utopia will continue to be so.

This unprecedented result comes about because, under the proposed legislation, every provider of a financial service (a term that includes organizations as varied as banks, check-cashing services, leasing companies and payment services) is required to offer a "standard" product or service — to be defined and approved by the proposed agency — that will be simple and entail "lower risks" for consumers. These standard products are called "plain vanilla" in the white paper that the administration circulated in advance of the legislation.

This is neither unprecedented nor does it necessitate your lamentations.

On that point, George Mason University and Cafe Hayek's Don Boudreaux makes this really great comment:

But let's accept, for argument's sake, the administration's judgment that ordinary Americans can't adequately assess complexity. Doesn't it then follow that Americans' election of Mr. Obama to high office deserves no credit? After all, isn't the task of assessing the merit of one person's ideas on economics, foreign affairs, ethics, law, and other difficult topics extraordinarily complex? Given that Joe Six-Pack and Jane Soap-Opera cannot be trusted with the relatively straightforward task of sensibly investing their own money, how can they be trusted to meet the far more complex challenge of choosing powerful national leaders?

No they cannot Mr. Boudreaux, that's why our Constitution was written for a republic. If Mr. Boudreaux had any idea what he was talking about instead of living within a thirty-year vacuum of history. he'd realize that 4 of the last 15 amendments to the Constitution since our civil war have involved extending the franchise.

From Wikipedia:

The Delaware Constitution of 1776 stated that "Every person who shall be chosen a member of either house, or appointed to any office or place of trust, before taking his seat, or entering upon the execution of his office, shall (...) also make and subscribe the following declaration, to wit: I, A B. do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration." [6]. This was repealed by article I, section2. of the 1792 Constitution: "No religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, under this State." [7]. The 1778 Constitution of the State of South Carolina stated that "No person shall be eligible to sit in the house of representatives unless he be of the Protestant religion" [8], the 1777 Constitution of the State of Georgia (art. VI) that "The representatives shall be chosen out of the residents in each county (...) and they shall be of the Protestant religion" [9].

Why give the serfs a meaningless vote and work under the pretense they are in control unless you have something pernicious planned for them and seek their approval for your own motives? The last 8 years of George Bush and the Republican party hammer this into my mind incessently.

Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett

As I listen to fireworks exploding at 1 a.m (It's not the 4th of July, it's not even close), in my otherwise quiet neighborhood, I must ponder whether these two corporate creations are somehow responsible for it. The selfishness and utter destruction of norms, morals, manners, and self-restraint that has befallen our nation over the last decades is truly remarkable. Thank you Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett for being good pawns and promulgating this completely debased and insane culture.

A culture(sic) that caricatures temperance, mocks modesty, and scorns piety to anything higher than one's person is truly the anti-culture. It is something I want no part of, something that is irredeemable, and ultimately, something that must be extirpated. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett, Requiescat in pace. God willing, may the depravity you helped unleash and maintain, meet a far crueler fate.

Quick Thoughts On Democracy

1. Democracy is evil.

2. The idealized version of democracy amounts to nothing more than complete mob rule.

3. The masses do not know what is good for them. The masses are ignorant and malleable, and manipulated easily by charisma. They know nothing.

4. However, a democratic republic is viable. The republic balances the irrational passions of a democracy without becoming a full fledged oligarchy.

Recession Impacts Kids' Summer Plans?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/06/16/kids.summer.plans/index.html

"Sheila Bernus Dowd's two children attended so many camps last summer that she used spreadsheets to keep track of their whereabouts.

This year is a different story.

Dowd's 9-year-old son Caden's only camp plans include a week at roller hockey camp for $100, which includes the cost of equipment. It's a far cry from 2008, when just one of his camps, involving video-game developing, had a $1,000 price tag."

Is this what the word "sacrifice" means to contemporary Americans? Not sending your children to eight different sports camps or to a videogame developing camp with a $1,000 price tag every Summer? I can't speak for anyone else, but when I was a child my Summer vacations were spent in my own neighborhood with my neighborhood friends. We passed the time by starting a pickup game of baseball or kickball, playing a game of Cowboys and Indians in the backyard, or by simply riding bikes around and causing mischief throughout the neighborhood. My parents didn't need spreadsheets to keep track of my whereabouts, all that was required by me was to be home for dinner or at least give them a phone call to let them know where I was, and to be home before it got dark outside. It was the best time of my life. How I wish I could go back to those times and how I wish the children in today’s America could experience those times. But alas, I grew up in a different time in a different America; I lived in Pat Buchanan's America.

Media Bias And Your Health!

“As President Barack Obama tried to sell the American Medical Association today on his health care overhaul, the top Senate Republicans launched a familiar line of attack.”

Because Obama’s plan is so original, Mitt Romney never thought of it. Ted Kennedy hasn’t been pushing it for thirty years. Come to think of it, does Obama even have a plan besides "change"?

End media bias - Start Republican Plutocrats

“They warned of rationed medical care, lack of patient control and government bureaucracy.”

Because this never happens with insurance companies! Because real hardcore freedom-loving Republicans never get sick and when they do the - non-profit, pro-life, Christian- insurance company is there to help them out! Only "Defeatists" get sick!

“Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell , in a floor speech scheduled for this afternoon warned that what Americans "don’t want is a Washington takeover of health care along the lines of what we’ve already seen with banks, insurance companies, and the auto industry. Americans don’t want a government-run system that puts bureaucrats between patients and doctors."

No we don't want a “government-run system that puts bureaucrats between patients and doctors."

We want the insurance companies interpolated between patients and doctors so they can profit first!

“No one should go without care and no one should go without quality care,” Kyl said. “No one wants their care rationed by the insurance companies or the federal government.”

Hmmm – No insurance and no government rationing? Where do I get my rocket ship ticket to "John Kyl's Neocon Island Utopia"? Why hasn't he relocated to freedom loving Iraq yet?

Senate GOP Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) predicted that Americans would begin to sour on President Barack Obama’s call for a public option.

“Washington takeover are two words we’ve been hearing a lot from the Obama Administration these days,” said Alexander. “That’s a different direction that Republicans want to go.”

Alexander vowed that Republicans would stay on offense on the issue

“We intend to be players,” he said.

We never heard the word “takeover” from George Bush. We only heard “Regime Change”. By "players" he means sneak in provisions to protect his favored interests, which verily I say unto you, is not you.

And they say Republicans don’t understand the Middle Class!

And they say there is only a dimes worth of difference!

It’s as if these Chickenhawk adulterers don’t want anything to do with the same great care our heroes from Iraq get!

If its good enough for the troops, it's good enough for you!