Random political thoughts-incomplete and VERY random!

I am fiscally conservative, socially libertarian, absolutely opposed to abortion, and fiercely American patriotic.  I do not want a European, progressive, socialist lifestyle or I would move there.   I want to have different values and an individualist society-that is what the country was founded to be-completely different from Europe!  I am fully supportive of a Monroe Doctrine style of international affairs.  If you don't know what that is, it means we trade with the world, but we stay out of their business and keep them out of ours.  If we can't work a deal, we don't TAKE what we want, but we either do without, or work it out. (I know this has rarely, if ever, been the modus operendi of our country or ANY country)

I do believe in manifest destiny.  Do I think it is fair, no, but there is always someone stronger who will put you in your place and if you don't stay strong and proud, your place will be beneath them.  That's just how things are and always have been.  There are always those who get trampled on and it is only the grace of God that my time is not right now.  I also believe that in the long term, what comes around, goes around and if we do not treat others with respect, we will pay for it someday.  One kingdom flourishes, another dies.  Then, a few years later, that kingdom dies while yet another gains power.

Leaders are not always good, nor are they always bad.  Both must be endured and there isn't a damn thing you can do about it.

MY choice is MY choice.  You choose what you will, but leave me to choose for myself.  I am not any better or lesser than you for doing so.  Time will tell who is right and if I am not, I will accept the consequences without blaming you or trying to force you to share in them.  I expect the same.
Taking innocent life is always wrong, but some things are punishable by death, or worse.  That being said, I do not think capital punishment should be used unless there is no doubt about the guilt.  I refer back to the first part of this paragraph.  Taking innocent life is ALWAYS wrong.   Innocence is lost once arms are taken up against another, unless it is for the protection or defense.  I am not innocent if I am at arms with another and I should expect that my life is just as vulnerable as his is.  However, in war, justice is meted out on the battlefield and unless there is torture or rape involved, war crimes are not the jurisdiction of man (realizing this opens a whole new topic, I will skip it for now). If you don't believe in a god, then fate decides.

Guns?  I think we should all have them or have someone nearby who cares about us that does.  Should society fail, the most anti-gun liberal will be scrounging to find one, cause if people are hungry, they will kill to get what they need.  I'll be damned if I let government leave me in an unprotected state.  (oops, guess I am on a list somewhere now!)  If you don't want one, that's fine, but you are going to have a fight if you try to take mine!  How, in any imagining, has it become okay to think that you should try????

No matter what you think is bad, it can always be worse.  Be grateful, look how far we've come.  Imagine life in another time-a time when women were treated no better than cattle and children died so often, parents didn't give them names right away.  WE HAVE IT GOOD, FOLKS!  Why fight over it?

Go your way, I'll go mine.  Leave me alone and I'll leave you alone.  Stop trying to take what I have worked for and I might actually take pity on you and help you.  Better yet, we could help each other out.  I might need car repairs that you can do, you might need a meal or two that I can take care of.  We don't have to agree about everything to do that?  But you try to take my food and I will hold onto it.  If I try to force you to fix my car, you will do a crappy job or break something on it intentionally.


Politics is all about give and take.  Some things will never be agreed upon.  We have to realize that and sometimes, we even have to leave it alone so we don't trample on choices.  We don't have to agree to get along!!!!  Civil Discourse, my friends, it is dead and I am in mourning.