tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689085743312490045.post3690481061082383404..comments2022-03-26T10:09:14.384-07:00Comments on The Journal of Hairy-Chested Adventism: Should an Adventist Run for President If He's Not a Democrat?Tom Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16700342512275624543noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689085743312490045.post-21959229518679937122015-11-19T16:28:34.803-08:002015-11-19T16:28:34.803-08:00Like most Progressives, you buy the idea that ther...Like most Progressives, you buy the idea that there was this big flip with the Democrats. States rights have never been anethema to the people who were called liberals at the founding of the nation and are now called conservatives by the people who would take us back to the plantation style civilization of the old South with all the best people making decisions for the po' folk and the darkies and all of us cooperating by submerging ourselves into the collective with themselves in charge, ruling on high from their plantations, dachas and palaces. The only thing that has changed in all these years is that the old tory conservatives have appropriated the name liberal which used to stand for liberty and individualism and called themselves by that name and, because the old liberals have sought to preserve the freedoms they had won, the liberals have pressed upon them the name "conservative" as traditionally, being conservative used to mean one who supported the old nobility and the subservience of the individual to the claims of the state. Old conservatives believed that the government and the kings granted rights to the people. Old liberals believed that the people granted rights to the government and could take those rights away at will. It's pretty easy to see which political philosophy believes in rule by elites and which believes in small government, a form that gives much more power to the people to rule their own fate. As to fighting Mr. Lincoln's war, I notice that conservatives are a lot more ready to go to war these days to free oppressed people than are their liberal counterparts who only desire an artificial stability that they can hang the label of "peace" upon. No matter that individual liberty will inevitably be lost in the collective in submission to the STATE. <br /><br />My great great great grandfather died fighting for the Union cause and he thought it was about ending slavery and taking down the elites who ruled the South with an iron fist. And THIS conservative would have fought beside him for that cause. In fact, some of my ancestors, helped the underground railway and conducted a little sabotage from inside the Old South. Something we're proud of, though we don't talk about it in front of the Democrat wing of the family. <br /><br />Teddy Roosevelt did a lot of things right in breaking up the monopolies. Unfortunately, he misunderstood where the Progressive movement was headed and helped that along. Progressivism was deceptive in its infancy, showing up on the scene in sheeps clothing but with an elitist heart tucked under all that 'justice for all' wooliness.<br />Tom Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16700342512275624543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689085743312490045.post-61205366244203557232015-11-14T13:57:02.606-08:002015-11-14T13:57:02.606-08:00The funny thing about this is that while historica...The funny thing about this is that while historically Democrats DID hold racist positions and Republicans WERE progressives, that has changed and most of the old Dixiecrats are now devout Republicans advocating the same "states rights" and anti progressive views that were once the Democratic platform. At the same time Democrats have taken on the progressive, (and big government) policies advocated by Abraham Lincoln and subsequently Theodore Rooseelt and other members of the GOP. No member of today's GOP would have signed up for Lincoln's war and most would have joined the war of rebellion. It is the policies that are abhorant not the party whose policies change with the political winds.Ex-Adventisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13442585713697087427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689085743312490045.post-82984942696137308772015-11-11T08:29:43.148-08:002015-11-11T08:29:43.148-08:00Excellent! Thank you for reaffirming God's abi...Excellent! Thank you for reaffirming God's ability to see us through this next election, whatever the outcome!grandma kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954959790424962405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6689085743312490045.post-62152630924636504672015-11-11T08:28:21.370-08:002015-11-11T08:28:21.370-08:00Excellent! Thank you for building confidence in Go...Excellent! Thank you for building confidence in God's ability to get us through the next election.grandma kayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13954959790424962405noreply@blogger.com