Politics Made Simple

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Even before 9/11, the date of my big conversion to Conservatism, I was always on the side of Liberty. I supported the NRA and the ACLU. (Of course, that's when I thought the ACLU really defended the Bill of Rights, and weren't just Left Wing stooges.) My friends thought I was crazy, but it was perfectly logical to me—and it still is...well, except for the ACLU thing.

Freedom is freedom. Either you're for it for everybody, or your against it. There is no middle ground. You can't support Liberty for some people and not for others. That just means you're not really for Liberty at all, you're just for special privileges for certain classes of people that you happen to approve of.

Which is a perfect description of the Left. ("Free Speech for me but not for you!")

I realize that I've always been a libertarian Independent. (note the small 'l') It's just that before 9/11 I was under the hilariously stupid impression that the Left was the defender of individual rights. This was a holdover from my misguided and misspent youth as a clueless child of the 60's, when the promotion of sex and drugs and rock 'n roll seemed the epitome of "freedom" rather than the inculcation of "license" and the seduction of youth into the "feel-good" emotionalism of mindless Leftism that it really was.

It took the national conversation after 9/11 for me to see that Conservatism is the true champion of Liberty and that government is the biggest threat to it.

Supporting liberty is simple (not necessarily easy): every decision must be made with a bias toward individual liberty, and reducing the size and power of government.

Political decisions made simple:

1) Does it enhance individual liberty?
2) Does it reduce the size or power of government?

If the answer is yes, support it. If the answer is no, oppose it.

NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE IDEA REVOLTS OR APPEALS ON AN EMOTIONAL LEVEL!
Leave "emotional" politics to the Moonbats.

The Gunslinger
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