Conservatism = Radicalism

The perverted version of what is now called Conservatism is a massive failure. A rampaging elephant trampling the crop of our freedom, which was fertilized with the blood of one million dead American Soldiers.

As usual by the Orwellian Newspeak Conservatives, Conservative no longer means Conservative. It means a Radical overturning of the established order. Read the first 20 pages of Paul Krugman's book, The Great Unraveling.

In "The Great Unraveling" Krugman quotes from Henry Kissinger's doctoral dissertation regarding revolutionary movements. Paraphrasing, a revolutionary movement sees the existing order as illegitimate, and must be overthrown by whatever means necessary. According to Kissinger, the Revolutionary has the power of his convictions, and sees all attempts to reason and preservation of the existing order as the only goal toward working toward.

In America, the existing order is Constitutional Government, protection of political freedoms, and the preservation of all the freedoms embodied in the Bill of Rights and the Civil War Amendments which extended the protection of the Bill of Rights to the states, in effect, nationalizing the Bill of Rights, and making it unconstitutional for states to override those protections. The existing order recognized the separation of Church and State. It recognized the Fifth and Sixth Amendment Rights to no Self Incrimination, and a Right to a speedy, fair trial by jury when charged with the violation of a law.

The existing order in America followed the Constitutional requirement that no Bill of Attainder be permitted. Yet, this Congress and this President passed a Bill of Attainder to torure a brain dead young woman.

A traditional Conservative did not accept the premise that all change was bad, but they did have a philosophy that sought to take a look at what changes were being forced on America due to changes in technology, political events in the world, and to limit both the speed of that change and its impact.

Traditional Conservatives in general wished to maintain the status quo regarding the means to accumulate wealth and political power, but they also had a strong preference to follow constitutional principles and to protect our freedoms. None of this is bad on its face.

The Perversion of what passes for Conservatism today seeks to, in a radical way, overturn all of the things conservatives of the 1950's and 1960's held dear. They seek the breakdown of Constitutional protections. They seek to tear down the wall between Church and State. They seek to overturn social progress, interfere with the most precious Right we have as Americans, the Right to Vote and to select our political and economic leadership. They seek to pervert the elections process to provide a permanent advantage to press their Radical Agenda.

Therefore, at this time in our History, Conservative is Radical. A Liberal who seeks to impose fiscal dicipline on our rampaging government, protect our freedom and liberties, to preserve the Constitution is now painted as rabble-rousers who are supporting a Radical Agenda.

Freedom is Slavery. Liberal is Radical, even though they espouse traditional conservative causes. Environmental protection is the support of Environmental Destruction. No Child is Left Behind is designed to Leave all Children behind and to destroy public education in America.

Today, Conservatism = Radicalism.

Prove me wrong. Bring it on!