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To: Windflier
George Washington began his own personal revolution at Mount Vernon decades earlier when he began experimenting with crop rotation schemes that would enable him to make money without depending on the colonial trading system devised and imposed by England.

He rejected being a monarch himself. He rebelled against a King.

In his day the French perceived they'd come up with some sort of left/right dichotomy balanced on a center. George wasn't part of that. He was an American of a very special revolutionary class. If you hadn't noticed, he wasn't French either.

To be a Conservative in America you must first reject the notion that left/right dichotomies have any relevance for us. You are with us, or you are against us ~ there is no center!

Government agents who dwell extensively on the left/right thesis and try to apply it to Americans are the enemy and must be rejected out of hand.

31 posted on 01/21/2013 4:44:02 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah
To be a Conservative in America you must first reject the notion that left/right dichotomies have any relevance for us. You are with us, or you are against us ~ there is no center!

That comment tugs at my inner American. I've long held the consideration that our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution supersede, and rise far above, mere partisan politics (and they do).

When having the rare civil conversation about politics with my liberal kin, I've attempted to convey to them that I care less for political labels and the interminable wars of red vs blue, and more for the timeless concepts of freedom and liberty contained in our founding documents.

For a long time, I've thought that simply calling myself a conservative patriot should make that stance plain to anyone, but unfortunately, we conservatives are easily sucked into partisan politics, and allow ourselves to be defined and firmly positioned within the Republican party by the enemies of the republic.

In this way, we set ourselves up to engage in battles that the enemy has great potential to win. They've been mostly winning this game since Woodrow Wilson's day, and we still haven't learned.

With the emergence of the Tea Party, I believed that we patriots had finally coalesced into a nationwide movement that forwarded the higher concepts of our founding, yet with applied political muscle. I still believe the Tea Party is capable of this, though it's going to take determination and persistence to achieve the results we seek.

When I look at what it is we're attempting to preserve and restore in this great country, I see our sacred founding principles and fundamentals of government organization. That's what the founding generation fought, sacrificed, and died for. Not partisan politics.

40 posted on 01/21/2013 9:48:30 AM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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