We're a Lot Like You - A Little Different

Conservatives and Liberals, at the heart of issues are really quite the same. There are decent people and not so decent people. You'll find, as the news shows, the rude, adulterers, molesters, pornography addicts, thieves, and liars in every existing party and within all the offices. You also find the family men and women, the honest, the truthful, the hard working, and the good hearted in all of the parties and in every elected office throughout history.

Our fundamental differences are the way in which the decent people want to help others and improve/protect the United States. Somewhere along the way, the Democrat Party, the donkey with the stars and stripes got credited with being the only part that cares about "African Americans", immigrants, people of Latin decent, the poor, and the environment. This is not because they (politicians in the Democratic Party) actually do anything personally to help or improve life for any of these people or the Earth...it's because they TALK about it the most and come up with the most ways to spend other people's money to "help", often making programs that other people pay for that probably do help a little bit.

Let's look at the people who really help other people . . . well you have the people who believe in a higher power, whose religious text' encourage or expect "Loving Thy Neighbor as Yourself" (including Mormons, Christians, Jews...ironically enough probably because they are rooted in the writing of the Old Testament and Yahweh, or the God of the Jews). These people subscribe to many different political parties, but they don't care for others as a result of that decision, it's faith and love for others.

I personally am a walking contradiction, even hearing "I would have thought you were a Democrat" (to my horror), because I endorse caring for the enviroment and the poor. I think that's insulting. I can want to help the poor and not subscribe to the liberal "Give them fish" mentality. Someone wiser than me said "TEACH them to fish". World Vision, and other non-profit, non-governmental programs are far more successful than government is/could be, and they work hard, and they work. They take donations, they don't take tax dollars whether people agree or not. That's where the difference lies...some people want to help others with their OWN money and time...not their neighbors.

~ Conservative Minority