When I was young, I thought myself a liberal. I was against government controlling everything. I was against the government taxing me to death. I was for freedom of expression, freedom of thought and action. I was against bigotry and intolerance toward people of opposing views. And I was an agnostic.
Then I grew up. And you know what has changed about me? I became a Bible believing Christian. You know what has changed about these views? NOTHING. I’m against government controlling everything. I’m against the government taxing me to death. I’m for freedom of expression, freedom of thought and action. I am against bigotry and intolerance toward people of opposing views.
My understanding of how the world should be hasn’t changed. It turns out I’m a conservative.
It is the liberals who want larger government that intrudes into every nook and cranny of your life. It’s liberals who want higher taxes on anything and everything and on anyone and everyone (even though that’s not the ‘party’ line). It’s the liberals who are against freedom of expression, thought and action if it’s against their personal dogma. It’s liberals who are bigoted and intolerant toward those who don’t toe their party line beliefs in abortion, religion, gay rights and recently and most vociferously, GLOBAL WARMING. Apparently my most misunderstood concept of my youth was not how the world should work… it was my understanding of what it really meant to be a ‘liberal’.
My question to you is, if you agree with everything I said in the first paragraph but still call yourself a liberal, isn’t it time you grew up too?