Conservative by nature

As a young adult I didn't know anything about politics. You could have told me that Democrats are fiscally conservative and Republicans are pro choice and I would have believed you. Then barrack Obama showed up, and something about him rubbed me the wrong way.

I wasn't sure what it was I didn't like about him. I listened to his campaign speeches and on the surface he seemed like a very good speaker. But when analyzing the content of his speeches everything he said seemed to be without substance. But the way the people reacted to him blew my mind. It's like everyone thought he was the new Messiah and I didn't understand why everyone was so in love with him. But like I said I didn't know a thing about politics. So I decided to become politically informed. 

After Obama got elected I started listening to conservative commentators like Rush Limbaugh. And I agreed with a lot of what they had to say. But it wasn't until Ron Paul came along in 2012 that I really learned what it meant to be conservative. Then I realized I was conservative my whole life, I just didn't know it. When analyzing my life prior to becoming politically informed I realized that every time a political issue came up I always chose the conservative side. 

When working my first job out of high school they raised minimum wage. Everyone else was excited to be getting a little bit more money. But I wasn't because I understood the value system. I knew that every minimum wage employer is now going to have to make up for the loss of profit by raising prices. If the price of everything I buy goes up then what good is that little bit of extra money I'm making? Not only am I against raising minimum wage, I'm against having a minimum wage. I've looked for a job since I was thirteen. I didn't get my first job until the age of nineteen because nobody wants to take a risk on a kid if they have to pay them more than they're worth. I would have gladly worked a job for less than minimum wage as a kid. 

My senior year in highschool a teacher's aid (who was black and white like me) told me that if I decide to go to college I should apply as black when filing out applications, because it'll be easier for me to get in she said. I was so offended that she thought that I needed to use my race as a crutch in order to get ahead in life. As if being black makes me handicapped therefore I need special treatment. Black people who support affirmative action are idiots because they're essentially agreeing that they are inferior to the white man. No thanks to that, I'll get by on merit alone. 

One time taxes came up in a history class. The teacher was like yeah but you get some of it back. One of the students was like I like that. I'm like what? Are you fucking retarded? You're excited to get back a small portion of what was taken from you when you can just keep it all? Fuck having your income taxed. I payed my taxes maybe two or three years before I stopped giving them my money. 

In eighth grade the topic of abortion came up and I knew immediately that I was pro life. My reasoning back then was that we have no idea what potential gifts we might be denying the world by taking the life of the unborn. The left likes to say that unwanted children will endure suffering so killing them is humane. Even if that were true so what? Life is suffering for everyone, it's our right to strive against adversity to make something better out of ourselves. No one has the right to decide who lives and dies.

My mom was a welfare queen. I never respected her for that. I think I was in fifth or sixth grade at the time. My mom had me on one of those entitlement programs, I think it was called SSI, I'm not sure. But anyway I was scheduled to take a government test to see how dumb I am. And my mom coached me to do poorly on the test so that she can qualify to receive more money. That pissed me off so fucking much. I couldn't believe that my mom wanted me to dumb myself down so that she can profit. In school I was a smart kid, but I was lazy. I was the kind of kid that would ace my tests but fail the year because I never did my homework. But I never really cared to apply myself. That day though, when she asked me to dumb myself down for this test I promised that I wouldn't. I promised that I would try my hardest on this test and I hope she qualifies for nothing. She was mad at me for that, saying other kids would have done it for their mom. She didn't understand me. I told myself from that day on I'd rather be smart and poor than comfortably stupid.

When barrack got elected my mom said aren't you glad we got a black president. I was so disgusted by those words. She's known me my whole life and I couldn't believe that she would think that I'm so shallow that I would value skin color over content of character. It's strange how people can know you your entire life and not know you at all. 

Her mild racism disgusted me even as a kid. We were watching wrestling and she said that she was hoping the black guy would win. I thought to myself this idiot doesn't even know who the characters are. I can't imagine rooting for someone just cause they're the same color as you.

I don't know why I am the way I am. All my external influences told me to be Democrat. I was raised by a Democrat in a Democrat City surrounded by other Democrats. But I was always conservative.

People have different definitions for what it means to be conservative and liberal. The liberals say they're pro change where as conservatives are anti change. But that's stupid. Say liberals had their way and made the government exactly the way they want it to be. Liberals wouldn't be pro change then. The conservatives would be pro change because they would want to change it back to the way it was. Would you call the conservatives liberals and the liberals conservative in that instance? Absolutely not. 

I take the words at there literal meaning. If I asked you to sprinkle a liberal amount of salt on a basket of fries you would sprinkle a lot. If I asked you to sprinkle a conservative amount of salt on a basket of fries you would sprinkle a little. In this analogy you are the government, the fries are people and the salt is power. I don't need or want the government exercising a liberal amount of power over me or my relationships with other people, businesses, or corporations. Give me a small limited government that enforces the just law (the just law being consent based) and defends our borders. That's all. The people can do the rest without the nanny government hovering and micro managing every little thing we do. 

The left likes to paint the right as extremist radicals. What's so extreme about doing less? What's so controversial about staying out of people's lives? It was never the government that made America great. It was government staying out of the way of progress that made America great. Give me more of that please.