If Gop Is Mean And Nasty Then Dems Are - Road to the Middle Class

OUR LIBERAL friends is the media and the academy and the Democratic Party do a superb job of painting conservatives and Republicans as mean and nasty. Haters, even.

Yes, but what do we do about it, writes, Lorie Byrd? We could just fight dirty, like they do. But that’s a problem; after all, we are conservatives.

I would not say we need to fight “dirty,” but at the very least we should stop being worried about being seen as mean or nasty... We not only do not fight hard enough against the image, and the unfair (and often untrue) allegations and accusations in reaction to them, but we do nothing to preempt them.

How the Republican Party and conservatives manage to do that is a big topic of discussion, but there is no doubt it is something they must do if they want any chance of regaining political power.

Actually, I think this will take care of itself. Conservatives were seen as mean and nasty when they were in power. In other words, to a liberal, a conservative with power is, by definition, mean and nasty. And certainly, a conservative with power is a roadblock to everything that liberals hold dear.

Now liberals are in power, and a lot of people don’t like it.

So the solution is simple. Tell the world what liberals are really like, using daily examples.

Of course we are not talking about liberals, personally. Many of my best friends are liberals. But liberal politics...

After years of painstaking research I have found that liberal politics always involves the following five characteristics:

CRUEL, CORRUPT, WASTEFUL, UNJUST, and DELUDED.

All we conservatives have to do is come up with examples, every day. Here are two, taken at random off the web yesterday and today:

Cruel:A mother discovers that her daughter at Stanford will have to live in a mixed-sex dorm room, i.e. two boys sleeping in the same room with daughter.
Unjust: A Tea-Party activist was denied the right to speak at a Quincy, MA city council meeting.

There are examples of this every day. And I will record them, and publish them away on my public Delicious account. I will use the following tags cruel corrupt wasteful unjust deluded as appropriate.

Here’s how you’ll find them:

See? That isn’t hard.

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Christopher Chantrill blogs at www.roadtothemiddleclass.com. His Road to the Middle Class is forthcoming.

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Chappies

“But I saw a man yesterday who knows a fellow who had it from a chappie that said that Urquhart had been dipping himself a bit recklessly off the deep end.” —Freddy Arbuthnot
Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison

Civil Society

“Civil Society”—a complex welter of intermediate institutions, including businesses, voluntary associations, educational institutions, clubs, unions, media, charities, and churches—builds, in turn, on the family, the primary instrument by which people are socialized into their culture and given the skills that allow them to live in broader society and through which the values and knowledge of that society are transmitted across the generations.
Francis Fukuyama, Trust

Hugo on Genius

“Tear down theory, poetic systems� No more rules, no more models� Genius conjures up rather than learns� ” —Victor Hugo
C�sar Gra�a, Bohemian versus Bourgeois

Education

“We have met with families in which for weeks together, not an article of sustenance but potatoes had been used; yet for every child the hard-earned sum was provided to send them to school.”
E. G. West, Education and the State

Faith & Purpose

“When we began first to preach these things, the people appeared as awakened from the sleep of ages—they seemed to see for the first time that they were responsible beings...”
Finke, Stark, The Churching of America, 1776-1990

Conversion

“When we received Christ,” Phil added, “all of a sudden we now had a rule book to go by, and when we had problems the preacher was right there to give us the answers.”
James M. Ault, Jr., Spirit and Flesh

Postmodernism

A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ’merely relative’, is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.
Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy

Faith and Politics

As far as the Catholic Church is concerned, the principal focus of her interventions in the public arena is the protection and promotion of the dignity of the person, and she is thereby consciously drawing particular attention to principles which are not negotiable... [1.] protection of life in all its stages, from the first moment of conception until natural death; [2.] recognition and promotion of the natural structure of the family... [3.] the protection of the right of parents to educate their children.
Pope Benedict XVI, Speech to European Peoples Party, 2006

China and Christianity

At first, we thought [the power of the West] was because you had more powerful guns than we had. Then we thought it was because you had the best political system. Next we focused on your economic system. But in the past twenty years, we have realized that the heart of your culture is your religion: Christianity.
David Aikman, Jesus in Beijing

Religion, Property, and Family

But the only religions that have survived are those which support property and the family. Thus the outlook for communism, which is both anti-property and anti-family, (and also anti-religion), is not promising.
F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit

Conservatism

Conservatism is the philosophy of society. Its ethic is fraternity and its characteristic is authority — the non-coercive social persuasion which operates in a family or a community. It says ‘we should...’.
Danny Kruger, On Fraternity

US Life in 1842

Families helped each other putting up homes and barns. Together, they built churches, schools, and common civic buildings. They collaborated to build roads and bridges. They took pride in being free persons, independent, and self-reliant; but the texture of their lives was cooperative and fraternal.
Michael Novak, The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism

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