Liberalism: The Philosophy of Patriots

Oh no, you guys. My worst fear has come true. I'm a socialist now. The Republicans say so.

A conservative faction of the Republican National Committee is urging the GOP to take a harder line against both Democrats and wayward Republicans, drafting a resolution to rename the opposition the “Democrat Socialist Party” and moving to rebuke the three Republican senators who supported the stimulus package.

In an e-mail sent Wednesday to the 168 voting members of the committee, RNC member James Bopp, Jr. accused President Obama of wanting “to restructure American society along socialist ideals.”

“The proposed resolution acknowledges that and calls upon the Democrats to be truthful and honest with the American people by renaming themselves the Democrat Socialist Party,” wrote Bopp, the Republican committeeman from Indiana. “Just as President Reagan’s identification of the Soviet Union as the ‘evil empire’ galvanized opposition to communism, we hope that the accurate depiction of the Democrats as a Socialist Party will galvanize opposition to their march to socialism.”

There's James Bopp. Just look. Look at that fucking guy. Jesus. Look at him. "Huuurrr durf durf look at me I'm James Bopp." Jesus, dude.

Didn't these guys get the memo? The word "socialism" has lost its oomph. They're supposed to be calling us fascists now, because hey, everybody still hates fascists.

“We’ve so overused the word ‘socialism’ that it no longer has the negative connotation it had 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago,” Mr. Anuzis said. “Fascism — everybody still thinks that’s a bad thing.”

I checked out a book from the library earlier today called "The American Tory" because I'm a huge nerdy faggot. The two political parties in Great Britain during the Revolutionary War were the Tories and the Whigs. The Tories supported the war in the colonies, and the Whigs opposed it. I love the very first words written in this book:

The conservative is by nature fearful. He risks only when confronted with no other alternative. He has courage, but only to face the known. He cannot project that courage into the future. In short, the conservative lacks daring and foresight; he holds, instead, an ability to innovate only within the narrow confines of the status quo. Conservatives are admired; but only those who dare are idolized, at least, those who dare successfully.

The American Tory has borne a double burden of historical and popular disapproval, since he could not envision future greatness as a separate nation and was long judged and condemned as unpatriotic. He espoused a political philosophy that was founded in tradition, in stable law, and non-polished justice. His arguments were, in more cases than not, well-reasoned, erudite, and ponderous with precedent. But the question must be asked: when must uncertain change take precedence over established belief? To the Tory mind gradual change was the utopian way; swift transition led only to chaos, anarchy, and the displacement, forever, of classical beauty. To his mind present evil was to be borne stoically, for a future grounded in tradition would erase his suffering. He could not see that such gradualism frequently results in complacency. Tradition very often loses its humanity and tries to find fulfillment in security.

Here's a quote from George Washington:

“As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.”

But George Washington was a socialist. Everyone knows that.