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Tell your story here, why are you conservative?

Here is mine, to get us started.

When it comes to party affiliation you might be surprised to learn I was a registered democrat most of my life, I was brought up being told democrats where the good people. As I grew in my carrier my jobs seem to keep me pitted against government regulation. In my early years I tended to agree with most of it and so I keep voting for democrats but at some point I started viewing new regs as being written by someone who had no idea what they were doing to the industry.

I was working for a company called Apeco that made office machines and rode it all the way into bankruptcy. It was at this point I realized government and the constant growth of regulation was hitting the heart of American manufacturing. Xerox and IBM both moved manufacturing to Japan and or China to compete Apeco's stupidity was based on there desire to keep all products American made. In there last few years they did grab two units made in Japan but by then it was to late.

It was when they failed and I saw the entire industry leave the boarders of the USA that I realized Washington was going overboard with new regulation and it was killing America. Us manufacturing had to send water back into the environment cleaner then nature delivers it. That alone is not what killed manufacturing but it hurt very badly and with all the other micro management coming out of Washington it was clear we had very big problems and they where just getting worse.

Back then we still made TV's and electronics in the US today almost all the plants have closed and moved offshore or in some cases just over our southern boarder into Mexico. With manufacturing dyeing in all except the areas where it does not pay to move over seas, I looked at Washington and noticed democrats had been in control of the house for 25 years, they controlled the senate for the last 8 and President Carter was in the white house and said in a speech that Americas best days were behind it.

That to me was a wake up call that democrats just wanted people on welfare and seemed to be doing everything in their power to send our good jobs overseas. Then along came Reagan with a message of hope and a brighter future, he had my vote from day one. After he was elected it seemed like America was on the move again even as he gave democrats in control some of what they wanted in order to pass things he wanted life was better people stopped feeling bad about being an American and started feeling proud.

It was at this point I switched parties and since that time knew there was a divided party. The republican party was as it is today broken into two with the establishment wanting to manage what the democrats had created and conservatives trying to reduce the size and power of government.

What complicated the war in the republican party was the radical move left in the democrat party. Back in the day we used to have what where known as bluedogs in the democrat party, today they would be called moderates as they positioned them self's just left of center. However they where all removed from office so the moderate left was forced to run as republicans in order to get elected.

It is these democrats we call Rino's that have hurt the party so badly, Rino's are not center right they are center left but to moderate to be elected as democrats in this day and age. It is this change in both parties that has me registered as a republican and not an independent. Independents have grown because the media wants us all to be democrats but tries to paint republicans as evil so we should move to the middle and vote for the best candidate, then they tell those unhappy democrats that switched to the middle that this year the democrats are the best choice.

Its all just part of the big lie and as you have seen based on my posts here I'm sick and tired of it. I have moved to the right and only support republican candidates. In the primary I vote against the Rino's and in favor of the conservative. When it comes to the general I vote for all republican candidates even Rino's because a Rino will move us to socialism slower then a democrat will.

If you have made it this far I thank you but before I sign off let me bring one important fact to your attention. In a recent trip to Washington DC I was looking out he window for near the whole flight. What I noticed was striking, as we flew over conservative states the sky was clear and the clouds seemed whiter then white. As we moved into the blue states of the north it was so strange to see those clouds turn gray the air was no longer clear and it was easy to see.

Democrats will always point out how they are the green party and republicans are the party of pollution and poison water. That as I can tell you not just by my flight but by the US pollution map if viewed shows red states with clean air and blue states with red warnings on air quality. Also the rivers in red states for the most part are clean and full of life but there is not a bay or river I've seen in the blue states that I would eat anything out of.

The truth comes down to republicans enforcing environmental laws where democrats for the right donation will give business a pass. Democrats want strict environmental laws because its good for the Champaign coffers and other bribes taken other ways. Because the media hates the right and covers for the left they fry republicans and take a blind eye to democrats. If there is no other reason to vote republican it this. The media hates republicans and will watch them like a hawk for anything even close to stepping out of line. Democrats the media will just tell you they have do so much good we should ignore it. Which sounds best to you?

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Permalink Reply by Bantiarna Drucht on December 14, 2015 at 2:53pm

Wow DV one hell of a question.....so here goes mine....

I see the word Conservative as used today as a misnomer. It is defined as being deposed to preserve existing conditions, institutions etc...opposed to change or innovation. I am in no way an old stone by any stretch of the imagination and see the need to change and innovate from where we are right now. I do identify myself as an Orthodox Republican with orthodox (of a person or their views, especially religious or political ones, or other beliefs or practices) conforming to what is generally or traditionally accepted as right or true; established and approved being the added word with Republican relating to or based on a form of government in which representatives are elected and there is no king or queen.

I too was raised in a home where being Democrat was the only way to be, as you they were held to be the ones to be for the working person etc..... it was when I was coming close to be old enough to vote that I began researching the history of government and politics that there were some inconsistences' that didn't sit well with me and when I asked for clarification on even the most innocuous of issues did I realize how lost many in my family were in the understanding of positions and policies that directed our lives every day. My questions and inquiries become a bone of contention and I thought best to stay clear of such topics and go it alone. I registed as a Republican on my 18th Birthday and kept it to myself what I truly believed was what was best for me and my view of things and did everything humanly possible to not bring politics into any family discussions and stayed cleared of the topic should others bring it to the floor for I knew I would be viewed as the enemy from with in... and waiting for the best time to pounce....... ;)

I soon began my work in medicine then decided to take on the uniform of my country, that was at a time when Carter was in office and felt compeled to try to correct what seemed to be a very weak leadership, my service is a part of me always yet I did not feel fulfilled in the Commander and Chief who gave orders, my duty was to my solider patients and focused on them only. It was once home where I took a more active roll in politics and saw the need to be engaged in what the electret sends to DC.

As with many as we grow older, work in the real world, feel the reach of DC grow ever stronger does one try to bring to light the ills that were ever developing and how deaf many of my fellow citizens had become, for the policies of Progressivism placed ever so quietly some time back were coming home to roost. Social unrest and the no so far off Hippy generation were coming of age with ideas that seemed cute of just a fad at the time were the first shoots of seeds long ago sown. Civil Rights were Republican backed actions absconded by the Progressive Dems who tired to pull any and all stops to not have it become reality, history no one ever disclosed then or now.... and other issues that were quick thoughts made into law at a time where information or the ability to act quickly was no where near the flash of response we have today.... and ask anyone then what the Federal Registry was and all you heard were crickets......

Civics, once a staple in early education was tossed for ceramics, when I signed up for a Know the Constitution class, it was canceled because not enough students signed up then saying the pledge was less frequent but a moment of meditation was granted for one hole minute followed by the topics of the schools upcoming events.... the shift was happening and no one appeared to be seeing it come and felt it take hold...... until it became too late.

Of course Monday Morning Quarterbacking is a bit 20/20, yet I am sure most here could dig deep to one point where for the first time the thought and fear that the country is in trouble entered their minds. For me it was in the 70's when it appeared that just about every airplane was being hijacked. The years following those events kept happening but the dots then were in no way being connected and were seen of what lay ahead. A flight I canceled was one that was hijacked, divine intervention and a choice not to go may have been combined, who knows, but the concerns then appear to be concerns today so how far have we really come?

I am unsure if I answered your topic question, so let me end by saying this.... Orthodox Republican am I, conservative, not so much for I am open to new ideas and change as long as it brings the True Constitution first, Less government held within the confines of the True Constitution, freedoms and liberties' are upheld and states rights mean something.

TA DA!!!!!!! :)