RNC

[chaine-maille.livejournal.com]

I stayed up for Rubio's and Romney's speeches on Thursday night - very motivating, I thought.

Anyway. It always aggravates me how so many of my friends lump all Republicans together as bigots or Bible-huggers and such. It's rude and it's not necessarily true and after reading offensive posts about all republicans being against women's rights and welfare (although I'm sure they weren't meant to be really offensive, but I find them very in-your-face) I have trouble falling asleep!

So this occurred to me:

It seems to me (and I'm doing a bit of generalizing here, mind you) that liberals have nice ideals - they want everyone to have enough of everything, they want everyone to get along, love each other, save the planet, etc.

So do republicans! Except our method of achieving that ideal doesn't take the easy road. It'll take time and for awhile it might hurt. But you can't jump to the final goal without trudging through the hard stuff.

If that makes sense? It makes more sense in my head than when I wrote it out here... Also, this is my first post here, I'm just tired of thinking to myself in a den of liberals that I can't talk to.

Comments

[brendala.livejournal.com]

Your conclusion is pretty accurate.

They have this childish view that a person denying someone something automatically means they hate them. Libs can't see past their hatred of conservatives to consider WHY we might be against affirmative action, illegal immigration, expanding welfare, or enacting universal healthcare. They just see those viewpoints as proof that we are heartless Captain Planet villains who hate minorities and brown people because we are evil.

[akilika.livejournal.com]

Especially because when they say "denying," what a lot of them seem to mean is "not automatically providing." (Affirmative action, universal healthcare, and generalized welfare being good examples.) I don't have a pony--does that mean someone denied me a pony? Why is the standard different for a college education, a kidney, food, housing, heat...? No matter how nice it could be for everyone to have these things no matter what, failing to provide them out-of-hand is not the same thing as denying them, and the false equivalency irritates me to no end.

[brendala.livejournal.com]

It also goes to show that we have different views regarding handouts and entitlements. Most conservatives view things like welfare as a last resort. But many liberals are fine with people using government assistance as a lifestyle from cradle to grave. And anyone who says there should be limits is viewed as stealing food from the mouths of the needy.

Basically, it sucks being the grown up who has to say "no" or "I wish we could, but we can't afford it". It's easy to look like a hero when you promise to hand out freebies regardless of whether or not the country can afford it.