THE FOUR PILLARS

There are four pillars of Conservatism according to a book written by a 14 year old named Jonathan Krohn and they are;

1- Respect for the Constitution

2- Respect for life,

3- Personal Responsibility

4- Less Government

Let us look at these briefly…

Let us start with the respect for the Constitution.  First Amendment clearly prohibits making of any law respecting to an establishment of a religion and impeding the free exercise of a religion and yet Conservatives assert that we are a Christian nation and there is no such thing as the separation of church and state. In fact, for Conservatives, church is the state. Furthermore, 10 Commandments must be posted in all schools, all government offices and all courts. All official activities should start with a Christian prayer. All mosques and synagogues should be closed and/or relocated to somewhere else, preferably to another country well beyond our borders.  This is what Conservatives mean when they talk about respect for the Constitution…

Respect for life… This is a good one since it stands for respect for life of the white Christian folks only. If you are a Jew or a Muslim or a Sikh or a Black or a Hispanic or an Oriental or a member of any other ethnic groups, you need to be put in concentration camps or deported or if necessary, be killed. Just ask a well know Conservative radio commentator, he’ll be happy to tell you what needs to be done.

Personal responsibility. Now this one requires that if you are in a leadership position, you must be responsible.   If you are a Conservative, however, it means go ahead and ruin the country’s economy by starting wars that are fought on borrowed money, double national debt so your rich supporters can get richer, steal elections by whatever means even if that means breaking the law, lie and claim that some country in the Middle East has WMDs, get rid of social security, Medicare and Medicaid declaring that they are nothing more than Ponzi schemes and claim that you need AK-47s, RPGs, and dirty bombs to protect our freedom. At a personal level, it also means that, ship American jobs overseas, raid corporations and companies and lay off workers, open up tax free accounts in Cayman Islands or Bermuda or stash some money away in a Swiss bank account or start a bogus IRA account so you don’t have to pay any tax on millions of dollars.

Finally, less government. This is another way of saying “you are on your own”. A tornado devastated your neighborhood?  You are on your own.  Lost your job and medical insurance and got sick and can’t afford medical care? You are on your own. You are laid off after 20 years with a company that went bankrupt and you can’t support your children? Don’t expect any unemployment benefits. You are poor? It is your fault (Remember Herman Cain?). Can’t afford higher education, don’t bother us… The list goes on and on.

Now, I do not consider myself to be a Conservative or a Liberal (I like to think of myself as an Independent) but in order to reflect the reality and the true values of Conservatism, I think their 4 pillars should be

1-      We are a Christian nation, all others must leave

2-      Choose war over peace

3-      Long live Plutocracy

4-      Down with social justice and fairness.

Having said that I really don’t think that those 4 pillars I have proposed will nearly be enough to describe Conservatism in full. Hence, here are some others for additional clarification;

5-      Take it from the needy and give it to the greedy.

6-      Ban theory of evolution and instead teach creationism

7-      If you can’t win a debate, launch a personal attack and/or demonize,

8-      Use coercion, incitement, intimidation, fear mongering and blackmail to get your point through

9-      Hide behind patriotism

10-   Don’t retreat, reload…

Feel free to chime in to add yours to the list…