It never changes

Call me a young conservative. Call me a man who grew up in the South, with Southern pride and a home-grown soul. I’ve lived in Virginia, Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi and central Florida (the front line to the Northern State of Florida, as everyone knows). I’ve seen the people, the smiles, the hearts, and the minds of Southernors in a broad swath of the Southeast U.S.

I’ve also lived in California, southern Florida and Maryland.

I’ve heard the left and the right, gained friends on both sides and even one who hated both – he was green. I love them all. But I can’t agree with them. I can’t support their ideas. I can’t help but feel many are misguided, but they have lived their lives as best they could. I respect that.
When I look at my experiences, and remember the people I’ve listened to, and times when I sat back and watched the world, I’m left with a sense of disappointment. I’m left wondering why people today think that “enlightened” values will get them any farther than it did the Romans, or the Greeks, or the Persians …

I look at the world, after having tried to ride the middle, and see a people that chooses liberality, a ‘giving away’ of responsibility, as a matter of overcoming humanity’s older, more ignorant side.
In the end, that’s how the left looks at the right. That’s how liberals look at conservatives.
The universality of healthcare, government subsidization and socialist enterprises are people stepping further away from the joys and pains of responsibility, and putting it in a group of people who pay for the lowest bidder and promote based on personal preference (the government). For all people complain about politics and bureaucracy, so many are willing to put all their trust into them to take care of them after they’ve grown too old to take care of themselves.

A pressing for the openness of homosexuality and acceptance of debaucherous lifestyles are exactly what happened in the late days of our “great” ancient empires. Are we more enlightened because we have cars or computers? Because we’ve been to space and can harness the power of the atom? Is it because after all this time, we obviously know more than they did?

Are you kidding me or are you high?

We, today, are no different than they were then. They wore skirts and we wear pants. We’re different? I don’t think so.

Our country is running headlong over the same cliff our ancient cousins did in the past. We think we know better, when we actually choose to ignore the hard truths more and more often.
Rulers lie, politicians deal, husbands filander, wives cheat, children rebel – it’s been this way since Adam and Eve or the monkey stopped sniffing its own butt, whichever you prefer to believe. And it will never change.

America was built on the foundation that you could be anything you wanted to be, because you were FREE to take the reins of your life and rise to the top. Abraham Lincoln certainly did. It was a situation of “I” can do it because “I” will put the work into it and “I” will fight for it, even by the blood “I” spill.

Now, it’s “me.” Now, people cry out for their government to help “me,” to take care of “me,” to make “me” feel less offended when my neighbor has different beliefs than “me,” or who works harder than “me.” It’s “mine.”

Abraham Lincoln would be ashamed of those who thank him for ending slavery but still demand the government owes them something. The government should owe its people nothing more than national defense and a common monetary currency. Through the federal government, state governments should be left to rule themselves and take care of their people’s individual needs, individually.

Why should a need in California constitute a law in northern Tennessee?

If California has a massive number of legal Hispanic immigrants – legal, mind you – and they want to change their ballots to Spanish, let them. I may not agree with it, but I’m Georgian. I demand of my officials NOT to follow the tide in California, and instead follow the greater majority here in the South and keep English as our official language. If there’s an INS problem in southern Texas, why should that prevent our officials here from working hard to find illegal immigrants – a danger to us all economically and potentially life-threatening – and deporting them as the law requires?

“Shame” is a word that comes to mind when I think of my politicians. I’m ashamed of governors and senators who only work hard enough to satisfy their paying constituency so they can win their seat another year. What happened to U.S. senataorial and house representatives being elected by state legislatures? In that day, those senators were forced to follow the needs of their entire state in the U.S. House and Senate. Now, they just need to satisfy their voter-few here in the state and can largely ignore their state governments.

No wonder the liberals hate America. They’re already ruining it.

Johnathan Cross
Marietta