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Dave's Philosophy
I am an unerring idealist: I believe in right and wrong, good and evil. Too often do we allow "shades of gray" to cloud our judgement over that basic premise, and it is because we have allowed that influence that Americans have become a weak-minded people. To many of my readers, I come across as an uncompromising conservative, and certainly some of my old columns and editorials reflect a decided slant in that direction; yet at the same time I believe in individual freedom, and many of the freedoms I support would most definitely run counter to what most consider to be traditional conservatism. I even hold some views that some consider truly liberal. To classify everything, I've coined a term to serve as a descriptor: "conservatarian." Others could call it "lunatic fringe," but I think my word sounds better. To better define my beliefs, I have included below a sketch, organized like a party platform statement -- you know, the values and ideals parties fight over at the convention, then ignore once elected? Who knows, maybe one day I'll organize the Fringe Party based on this. |
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| I believe in America -- not the continent,
but the United States of America. For more than 200 years, America has
served as the beacon of freedom for the world, and it is because of the
leadership of America that the world today is not enslaved by totalitarianism.
Yet America has strayed from its leadership role, betrayed by the corporate
giants its freedom and strength created, and has embarked on a path called
"globalism" that would establish global corporate fascism. We must stop
this.
I believe that with individual freedom comes great individual responsibility. Here in the United States, we have forgotten this, and have instead unintentionally restricted freedom in the name of compassion and security. While we must always be ready to help our fellow man in common Christian charity, we cannot use government to do that; our Founding Fathers went out of their way to specifically deny government the power to serve as a charity, and we have ignored their teaching. For our system of government and way of life to survive, we must realize that freedom gives people the chance to succeed -- and it also gives them the chance to fail, and government can neither help nor hinder individuals along that personal road of life. While we have made great errors in the past, I believe that the United States of America is mankind's greatest success at attempting self-governance. No other of man's nations is as diverse, industrious, charitable and powerful and no other nation could even attempt to be so. We may abhor dertain policies and programs of our government, we may detest certain people involved in government, we may lament the fact that our government is bloated and seemingly out of control -- but in the end we have to admit that no other system of government in history has ever served so many so well for so long. |
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