Left conservative? Well, I believe in hard work and discipline. I believe kids are best reared by two parents. I believe students should address teachers as “Sir” or “Ma’am” and follow their directions without asking “Why?” I think schools should rediscover the virtues of rote learning, drill, basic skills, and an emphasis on content knowledge instead of teaching kids all about format and expecting content knowledge to follow naturally (it doesn’t). So I’m conservative.
But I also believe it’s a bad idea to let wealth become so heavily concentrated that a small fraction of the population gets to control political and economic policy while a majority with only a nominal political voice struggles to stay afloat. I think it’s a bad idea to let big industry essentially do as it pleases with minimal regulation. I think we’re doing ourselves no favors letting carbon dioxide build up in our atmosphere until the resulting climate changes become too severe to prevent catastrophe, all because we think we’re entitled Americans who shoudn’t have to make sacrifices for the sake of our environment. I think it’s unjust to expect workers to toil without the benefit of a unions to bargain for better wages and working conditions. So I’m also left.
Very good, Dylan. A lot said in a very few words. Most people can't be put into a box.
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Yes. I can't be put into a box, either. I am very claustrophobic. It would have to be a very, very large box, so large that it would cease to be reasonably called a box and would have to be called something like...house. :-)
ReplyDeleteI consider myself a Classical Liberal/Libertarian more and more, Dylan, so I can understand where you are coming from. Our views really do change as we grow older. It's part of the maturation process, I believe!
ReplyDeleteReally, though, we need to stop labeling ourselves! There is no one label that fits me!
That was not Uncle Rusty, by the way! LOL It's Aunt Jenni!
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