Mike7
WKR
I really like the cut of your jib 5MilesBack as Dennis Miller would say, but I think you do a disservice to progressives when referring to them as liberals. The vast majority are not for liberty in any way, but rather for segregation, religious intolerance, and special rights & political correctness to the detriment of others...and for a general progressive march toward socialism. When they don't have the facts or a good argument on their side, then you are an unreasonable, non-compromising, racist, homophobic, gun-toting dummy.
The media has trained many in the current generation and my generation before them, with their constant spin on things, that most conservatives are intolerant. I can't speak for everyone else, but I find that couldn't be further from the truth for me and the people I am friends with. I can simultaneously show compassion and take care of an illegal immigrant (for which I have done many times and while working for free in doing this), but I still want the border completely shut down with a double fence, guards with shoot to kill orders if commands are not obeyed after the first fence is crossed, etc. This is my view because I feel that I understand the bigger picture which includes the necessity for immigration control, border security (drugs, terrorists, etc), the social & cultural issues assoc with destitute people who come across the border with no plans to ever become "Americans", etc. In my plan only drug smugglers would ever attempt to get across the border and would be shot. Anybody else would come through border crossings and meet certain criteria and be monitored. In this way, good Mexican families/workers would not die getting smuggled across the desert by coyotes, get sold into slavery, have non-English speaking kids left at home who become gang members here in the U.S., end up getting mixed in with violent criminals who come to U.S sanctuary cities and rape and kill people while being protected by out gov't, etc.
As a conservative, I can be for preventing people who have been involutarily comitted to a mental unit from getting weapons by placing them on the Instant Background Check System (something historically fought by "liberals" by the way while on the other hand they had no problem assuming virtually every returning service member was insane because many had some expected traumatic stress reaction), and still not be for gun registration and confiscation. By the way, I was in the military taking care of service members and saw how this one came down, so I can't be BS'd on this one. Sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and sometime a progressive or gov't bureaucrat just tries in an intentional fashion to take away rights because that is their ideology.
As a conservative, I can be for many people being able to legally carry a weapon on campuses, since anyone can carry a weapon illegally at virtually any time on campus. The security if present at all at most schools is a joke, yet progressives cling to gun free zones which don't work...well not unless everyone has to go through a check point and be searched.
As a conservative, I can be for gay people doing whatever they want (I don't treat them any different than anyone else). But I also don't think that gay activists should be able to make a religious couple make cakes that have two men on top or make them attend/promote their wedding if that couple doesn't want to. If a gay couple wants to come into the religious couple's store and buy a cake with the usual man and woman on top, then great.
The list goes on and on, but I think you see what I am getting at. Be consistent, promote liberty, be an American. There are plenty of progressive countries around the world that a person could otherwise visit for prolonged stays if they want to. Lol.
The media has trained many in the current generation and my generation before them, with their constant spin on things, that most conservatives are intolerant. I can't speak for everyone else, but I find that couldn't be further from the truth for me and the people I am friends with. I can simultaneously show compassion and take care of an illegal immigrant (for which I have done many times and while working for free in doing this), but I still want the border completely shut down with a double fence, guards with shoot to kill orders if commands are not obeyed after the first fence is crossed, etc. This is my view because I feel that I understand the bigger picture which includes the necessity for immigration control, border security (drugs, terrorists, etc), the social & cultural issues assoc with destitute people who come across the border with no plans to ever become "Americans", etc. In my plan only drug smugglers would ever attempt to get across the border and would be shot. Anybody else would come through border crossings and meet certain criteria and be monitored. In this way, good Mexican families/workers would not die getting smuggled across the desert by coyotes, get sold into slavery, have non-English speaking kids left at home who become gang members here in the U.S., end up getting mixed in with violent criminals who come to U.S sanctuary cities and rape and kill people while being protected by out gov't, etc.
As a conservative, I can be for preventing people who have been involutarily comitted to a mental unit from getting weapons by placing them on the Instant Background Check System (something historically fought by "liberals" by the way while on the other hand they had no problem assuming virtually every returning service member was insane because many had some expected traumatic stress reaction), and still not be for gun registration and confiscation. By the way, I was in the military taking care of service members and saw how this one came down, so I can't be BS'd on this one. Sometimes the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and sometime a progressive or gov't bureaucrat just tries in an intentional fashion to take away rights because that is their ideology.
As a conservative, I can be for many people being able to legally carry a weapon on campuses, since anyone can carry a weapon illegally at virtually any time on campus. The security if present at all at most schools is a joke, yet progressives cling to gun free zones which don't work...well not unless everyone has to go through a check point and be searched.
As a conservative, I can be for gay people doing whatever they want (I don't treat them any different than anyone else). But I also don't think that gay activists should be able to make a religious couple make cakes that have two men on top or make them attend/promote their wedding if that couple doesn't want to. If a gay couple wants to come into the religious couple's store and buy a cake with the usual man and woman on top, then great.
The list goes on and on, but I think you see what I am getting at. Be consistent, promote liberty, be an American. There are plenty of progressive countries around the world that a person could otherwise visit for prolonged stays if they want to. Lol.
Hypocrisy hurts. As much as I love to watch a derailment, probably time to shut this train wreck down.
