For centuries, political divisions have formed three distinct groups. With the French Revolution and the seating patterns that started with the 1789 National Assembly, these three groups started to acquire the labels they hold today. Two of the groups are merely mirror images of each other, screaming and posturing at each other in perfect unison, always remaining in perfect and complete contrast with the measured thought and decision of the third group. The two groups which waste their time glaring past the center of reason are today known as the right wing and the left wing. Absolutely centered between these right and left wing extremists and permanently in their lead is the conservative.
When one hears the right and the left wing non-conservatives, when one thus hears the right wing liberal and the left wing liberal, while individual examples can and do vary, they don't vary by much.
From one side one hears the incessant chant that I am a right wing liberal
My way is the only way, all others are wrong says the right wing liberal.
I believe and do anything that I want and no one will ever disagree says the right wing liberal.
This country was founded by my view of my god, says the right wing liberal
My god must be worshiped by everyone the same way says the right wing liberal.
Religious decisions in government are required says the right wing liberal.
I will protect myself and anyone around me anyway I want and I will have any and every gun and any other weapon that I want says the right wing liberal.
Taxes must be cut and then cut again because taxing people because they have money is theft says the right wing liberal.
Drugs must be stopped and are illegal because if they were legal, everyone would be using them says the right wing liberal.
Gays are immoral and must be converted says the right wing liberal.
Abortion is murder of children and is not allowed says the right wing liberal.
Murderers will be put to death for their crimes says the right wing liberal.
Children are punished in any way it takes, preferably by beating them says the right wing liberal.
Women obey and follow men in everything says the right wing liberal.
Decision based on minority ancestry is wrong says the right wing liberal.
Government does not regulate business under any circumstance says the right wing liberal.
From the other side one hears the incessant chant that I am a left wing liberal.
My way is the only way, all others are wrong says the left wing liberal.
I believe and do anything that I want and no one will ever disagree says the left wing liberal.
My country was not founded, inspired, or led by someone's god, and either no one believes that story anymore, and the founders were really atheists says the left wing liberal.
There can be no religion whatsoever in any trace of government says the left wing liberal.
Guns and other weapons murder everyone and will be banned says the left wing liberal.
Public protection is why the police exist, and only police and guards can carry guns or any other weapons says the left wing liberal.
Having more money than anyone else is wrong and everyone like that must get taxed more and more to make up for the money that they have says the left wing liberal.
I have and use whatever drugs I want and so does anyone else says the left wing liberal.
Gays are not harassed for being gay says the left wing liberal.
Abortion is a woman's right under any and all circumstances says the left wing liberal.
A death penalty is wrong and will never occur says the left wing liberal.
Children are free to do what they want and will never be punished in any way says the left wing liberal.
Women are the equal of men in everything says the left wing liberal.
Decision based on minority ancestry is a requirement in all circumstances of oppression says the left wing liberal.
All business must be completely regulated by the government says the left wing liberal.
Whether right wing liberal or left wing liberal the ongoing refrain is Me, Me, Me, Me, Me.
Contrasting always and absolutely, constantly dragging the right and left into the light of reason, the Conservative continues the ongoing focus upon the entire gathering of all of us and how are we doing and what will be done by we the people.
I am Conservative.
I support and refine that which works, and I waste no time in ideology. The only constant is change. I watch all parts and occurrences all the time so that I may continually project into the future and look into the past, learn for myself before events develop, learn what may go wrong, learn what must be prepared for.
When the facts change, I change my mind . . . .
Once upon a time there was indeed the classical liberal and the cry that the will of the individual is supreme, is not questioned, and there are no alternatives. Once upon a time the term conservative did have a meaning of right wing, the old guard, the supporters of the way we do things because they work the best, and there are no alternatives.
By the industrial revolution, the liberals had split in two. The left wing liberal claims that the will of the individual person is supreme, is not questioned, and there are no alternatives. The right wing liberal claims that will of the individual organization is supreme, is not questioned, and there are no alternatives. Both liberals get very pissy when reminded that individual remains a variable and there are others besides themselves.
Back in that time that no longer exists, when conservative did once mean right wing, in such a sense the best ways did work for the most and changing just to make changes did indeed lead to failure. With the new demand of the right wing liberal that the organization must always take precedence over the individual, this now shows that the right wing does not reason, does not calculate, does not conserve, and thus the right wing is not and will never be known as conservative.
With the clear demonstration of the right wing liberal nature and practice and absolute failure, all claims that the right wing is called conservative now only come from the ignorant, the illiterate, the inept, and the cowardly. For the actual conservative, to accept and acknowledge the total and complete contrast between the conservative and the right wing is just as natural and truthful and accurate and blatantly evident as noting the equal contrast with the other group of agenda ridden liberals that make up the left wing.
There is no Third Way of politics, there is only The Way; The conservative supports and includes everyone, from the center of the political road all the way past both the right and left wing liberal edges of the road, so as to know, to understand, to best help and support every individual. Only the liberal demands that any who cartwheel and crash off the opposing edge of the road must be left to die.
Politically moderate is a liberal fantasy, is the liberal’s crude rationalization for the ongoing and perpetual liberal failure to keep and control all the toys. The "accusation" by liberals that the conservative is "pragmatic" is merely the rallying cry of the ideologically pure, the tactically inept, the inevitable failure. The liberal is pure, the conservative succeeds.
At all times the conservative welcomes attention and discussion, for only that way does refinement and evolution and progress occur. At all times the liberal extreme points past the conservative to the other and opposing extreme, for in that way does the liberal attempt to deflect the self examination and improvement that will inevitably move the liberal away from the right or left wing and expand the liberal edge and excess to the all encompassing conservative center.
The conservative notes that every single country is founded by people, and every single country is made of and governed by people, and every single country exists and continues to exist solely of and for the individual and the people.
Conservative government exists to act and decide on a larger scale than can be managed by the individual, acts solely on behalf of the people and and not for benefit of government except as to best support and protect the people, acts to best preserve and support the rights, choices, and actions of each individual person. Conservative government does not in the least exist to attempt to prevent those individual actions done by individuals alone. By its own nature, government can only act in general terms, as only an individual can work with another individual.
Taxes paid to support conservative government are charged only to pay for that which assists, helps, and otherwise stays out of the way of any and all individuals. Taxes are paid equally and in equal amount by all, because all support and are supported by the government equally. When the conservative government budget increases, taxes increase. When the conservative government budget decreases, taxes decrease. There is no exception.
As greater and greater amounts of individual knowledge, skill, and understanding are to the greatest benefit of individuals and government, a purpose of conservative government is to ensure that all individuals have the greatest access to and may make ongoing use of the greatest quality of ongoing education.
As greater and greater ease and quality is to the benefit of individuals and government, a purpose of conservative government, being for the benefit and support of individuals, is to support and sustain equally each and all together the continuous good personal health of individuals and the people, their sustenance, their housing, their environment and its good condition, the continuous good condition and maintenance of roads and other means of travel, good quality employment and the encouragement thereof, good quality commerce and the encouragement thereof, good quality law and the administration of the courts, the good quality general defense of and among the entirety of the people at all times.
The responsibility of police and other security is to preserve and protect the general public order and not necessarily any random individual. The personal and ongoing safety of an individual is primarily the concern of that individual, is answered for by that individual, and is not infringed upon. Any arm or weapon is an inanimate and neutral tool just like any other tool, requires knowledge and skill for correct use, and there are no limitations of the safe possession and operation of any arm or weapon by any adult individual. When an individual commits murder, that individual will be executed. When an individual kills in self defense or the defense of another, that was the execution, delivered at that moment. Such an individual may may be compelled to later show cause, where once such is shown, the executioner will not be further infringed.
Prohibitionism is fraud; Any action and choice that can and will be done by an individual as an individual can be regulated by a conservative government so as to conserve the best possible interaction between individuals and among the people, but will never be banned regardless of any declaration or statute.
Among the documented and noted prohibitionist failures of various otherwise competent governments are the attempts to ban; Individual thought and expression. The creation, sale, and use of particular books. The creation, sale, and use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs. The personal ownership, ongoing immediate possession, and use of firearms and other weapons. The marriage of any two or more consenting human adults. Abortion. The various forms of physical manipulation and mutilation. Assorted social practices.
In all of these cases of attempting to prevent any one individual from performing an action that any individual may perform by or upon said individual, the reasoning given may vary but the effort required by any government to prevent any such action is not worth the waste of government and individual effort and therefore no such attempt is made by any conservative government at any time.
If an individual makes the decision to practice any form of self destruction, no other individual can infringe or be infringed in any way. When any individual wishes to create some disruption, that individual answers for that disruption. In turn, if any individual wishes to prepare for the possible disruption caused by any individual, that preparation is not infringed.
There is no demand that is made of an individual based on faith or a religious choice as all religious choice is solely the decision of an individual alone and no other individual.
Of regulation and the wills of several individuals, the individual is limited only in that individual's direct and physical effect upon another individual or individuals; The right of one person to wildly swing a limb ends at the presence of another, be that other an adult or a child. The right of one person to bathe in perfume, any sort of smoke, produce noise, practice self impairment, or anything else that will intrude upon or limit another's environment ends at the point of the encounter by that other individual.
When two or more individuals join together in mutual interest, the requirements of that mutual interest permit the exclusion of another individual who does not share that mutual interest. In equal and absolute manner, the requirements of an individual who does not share some mutual interest of others permit the exclusion of that other mutual interest by that individual. Between the two, The Society For The Genuine Education And Good Health Of The Uneducated will thrive and succeed just like every individual opposing The Collective Of Drunken And Drugged Illiterates That Light Bonfires And Scream A Lot.
When two or more mutual interests come together, they will work together to best further the interests and benefit of the associated individuals for the greatest amount of time, or all such involved mutual interests will fail and be destroyed.
So as to provide and protect the general future and all future development and growth, the defenseless are defended and the limitless are not limited; Assault a child and die and the executioner may be compelled to later show cause, where once such is shown, the executioner will not be further infringed. As any parent will remind, parenting is to raise a child, assaulting is to brutalize a child; parenting is a job description, not a privilege, and anyone incapable of practicing or unwilling to practice such gets no influence over or access to any child.
In all of this here described, at all times, the conservative acknowledges that many aspects of being are subtle, detailed, and require careful, reflective, conservative balance of individual and general decision. There is no one decision, and there never will be. Only the liberal, whether right wing liberal or left wing liberal, claims that there is only one choice to ever be made, and that is how the liberal fails.
The principle of conservative democracy is that all government exists solely for the good of the governed; that the branches of government, and all other public institutions are to be maintained so far, and so far only, as they promote the happiness and welfare of the common people; that all who are entrusted with any public function are trustees, not for their own class, but for the nation at large; and that the mass of the people may be trusted so to use electoral power, which should be freely conceded to them, as to support those who are promoting their interests. It is democratic because the welfare of the people is its supreme end; it is conservative because the institutions of the country are the means by which the end is to be attained.
The practice of and inevitable success of conservative government will continue to supersede and exceed any and all attempts or proclamations by right wing liberals or left, because such success is predicated upon the inevitable success of the practice of the conservative individual and individuals.