December 29, 2004

right-wing me

My blog is labeled "conservative" by many people. I disagree. I can't call myself a true Libertarian, either, because to me, some libertarian notions are just as whacked-out as the moonbat lefty ravings I despise. I DAMN sure ain't no whining leftist. How WOULD I describe myself?

#1) I support the War on Terror and I support the troops fighting it. I do not believe in appeasement and I do not believe in turning the other cheek. If you hit ME, I'm going to try my best to beat the living shit out of you. That's a lesson in Human Nature I learned on school playgrounds a long time ago. You cannot reason with an asshole who wants to kill you. You've got to kill him first, or at least make him see the error in his thinking.

#2) I believe in the right of the individual to bear arms. That is not a PRIVILEGE, either. It's a goddam RIGHT, written clearly in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, put there by people who KNEW what a tyranical government was capable of doing when the people could not defend themselves.

#3) I believe that government is too big, too powerful and run by a collection of shitbirds who couldn't make a living in the real world, where merit counts more than senority or ass-kissing ability. Government should be handled locally as much as possible, where citizens actually have a voice in what happens to them. When the Holy Edicts rain down from Washington, DC, you have no voice--- the High Priest has spoken for you. The more centralized we make the government, the less effective it is.

#4) My money is MY money. I worked for it. I earned it. I don't "owe" a goddam cent of it to "the less fortunate" unless I decide to give MY OWN MONEY away. It's not government's job to take it from me and give it to someone else against my will. That's not charity. That's robbery.

#5) I really don't see a whole lot of difference between the Republicans and the Democrats today. Oh, the ideological differences are obvious, but the bottom line is the same. Both parties want the federal government to run your life. They just disagree on how to do it. But you can bet your sweet ass that NEITHER party will EVER shrink government.

#6) I believe that abortion is a terrible thing. It's become a convienient form of birth control, which fits neatly with that 60s mentality of doing whatever feels good but never accepting responsibility for the aftermath. But I OPPOSE OVERTURNING ROE V. WADE!!! You can outlaw abortion, but you can't stop it. Attack THAT problem the way anti-smoking nazis did cigarettes. It took 'em 20 years, but look at how attitudes about what once was a common practice have changed. PR works.

#7) I oppose the War on (some) Drugs. How much money have we pissed down this rat-hole? How many people are rotting in jail for doing nothing worse than getting high? How many mother-rapers and father-stabbers are walking the streets today because those dumbfuck "tough" mandatory sentences for drug offenders clog our prisons to overflowing? What has this war accomplished? People still get high, and we have more drugs, cheaper drugs and better drugs now, and they are readily available to anyone who wants them. Let's just declare victory and stop this stupid shit.

#8) Let gays get married. I want to fuck-up divorce law as much as it has fucked ME up. Let's make divorce complicated and throw out all those cookie-cutter laws that condemn a man as the villian just because he's a man. Force some fat bastard judge in a black robe to earn his goddam money for a change instead of acting like a bank clerk stamping a deposit slip. Make him JUDGE for a change.

#9) Legalize prostitution and gambling. Regulate both, and rake in some government tax dollars as the mordida government skims off everything today, but stop being so Puritanical and asinine about these issues. People are gonna fuck and gamble. They always have and they always will. You can make them criminals, but you can't make them stop. Besides--- how can a state run a lottery and still go out and bust some bookie for taking bets on football games? In MY mind, hypocracy is a worse sin than gambling.

#10) Make it mandatory: EVERY TIME Congress passes a new law, it must find THREE old laws to take off the books. We have too many laws today and we need more like I need another case of that stomach flu I had for Christmas. Hell, Congress GIVES me stomach flu when I see those posturing bastards in action.

If that's a "conservative" attutude, then I am a conservative. I call myself a student of human nature.