The
Proper Definition of Conservative
By JB
Williams
Before we can have a true “conservative”
revival in America, we must first properly define what it is to be a
conservative. The nice thing about being an opinion writer is that I get to
write my opinion on a subject without concern for the opinions of
others.
I realize that academics who write
dictionary definitions and accounts of history have their opinions about words
and events. Sadly, most of them are left-wing in their world views, which
usually drives their left-wing definitions and accounts of
history.
Don’t confuse common definitions with proper
definitions. Clearly, our Founders didn’t mean food stamps or free cell phones
for Obama supporters when they wrote the “general welfare” clause in the
constitution. But that’s how left-wing academics define that clause
today.
As a lifelong “conservative” myself, let me
tell you what it means to me to be conservative. Although the term is used to
identify the political views of an individual, this is only the natural
political manifestation of being a conservative. The foundations for
conservatism are based in personal life convictions, not
politics.
·
An individual who
seeks to uphold and abide by an American set of principles and
values
·
A sound and
uncompromising moral compass
·
Ethical behaviors
that exhibit a personal conviction to moral
foundations
·
A fiscally
responsible reverence for free-market economics and limited
government
·
A political view
that aligns with all moral, ethical and fiscally responsible
convictions
In short, a conservative is someone who lives by a code
of fundamental decency and honor, someone who never chooses the politically
expedient over basic right and wrong. Their political positions are driven by
their personal convictions and they are not at all prone to compromise as a
result.
Can this definition be applied to anyone representing the
people in Washington DC today? No… But the people I work with every day, share all of these
conditions.
Today, most Republicans are not conservatives by this
definition and that’s why the Republican Party remains in a death spiral,
despite the fact that the Democratic Party (Democratic Socialists) is highly unpopular as
well.
Today’s Republican politicians do not provide any real
alternative to the Democratic
Socialists currently
seizing freedoms and liberties and running the greatest nation on earth into a
corrupt immoral socio-economic abyss.
“We
are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by
private profit, alienated labor, race and gender discrimination, environmental
destruction, and brutality and violence in defense of the status quo.”-
From the Democratic Socialists of
America which operates through its Congressional Progressive and
Black Caucus’s
Most second and third generation Democrats have no idea
that they are voting for and supporting unbridled Marxism. They think they still
belong to the party of Jefferson and JFK. Locked in blind party loyalties for
generations, they are voting for Marxism and just don’t know
it.
By my definition, I believe that most Americans are in
fact conservatives. Why is this not reflected in recent elections? Political
lines are totally blurred today, that’s why.
Simply stated, neither primary political party represents
these Americans today. Conservatives want their governments run the same way
they run their homes, their businesses, their churches, their lives, and raise
their children to become decent, honest, productive members of society. They
want a moral, ethical and fiscally responsible government that reflects their
personal convictions and above all, protects individual freedom and liberty for
all. No such political party exists at present.
This explains why half of registered voters no longer
bother to vote at all, and why many voters have sought a new political home in a
litany of failed 3rd party explorations.
It also explains why today’s “conservative movement” is
struggling to gain any traction. Most of the people in today’s so-called
“conservative movement” are not conservatives, at least by my
definition.
Many are politically homeless lifelong members of the
Democrat Party, fed up with the socialist takeover of JFK’s party and the
nation. Others are modern libertarians, having little more than lower taxes and
smaller government in common with conservatives.
Today’s “conservative” movement is full of
non-conservatives. While Reagan’s Big Tent theory for the Republican Party might
have looked good on paper, it has been disastrous for the GOP. The GOP is not
even recognizable as the conservative party of Ronald Reagan anymore. As long as
that remains true, the GOP will remain in steady decline, or become more and
more, only a sub-party of the DNC.
The GOP was once the “conservative” party in America. Now
it is little more than a temporary resting place for those currently without a
political home of their own, of all political persuasions. As a result, the
party spends most of its time in internal power struggles, incapable of
confronting the Marxist left running today’s DNC and the
country.
And “we the people,” which many originally thought to be
a “conservative insurgency,” like the GOP, is more divided than ever due to
competing political views and agendas within the movement, in the end, leaving
only an impotent force of no real concern to the Marxist
Left.
Like the movement itself, the current GOP is a blurry
abyss of competing interests. Before any real conservative revival can happen,
these groups must purge themselves of non-conservative people and their agendas.
It’s time to secure the “conservative” tent and forget about the notion that a
“conservative” revival can happen via
non-conservatives.
As our Charters of Freedom and nation were designed and formed by “conservatives”
with a focus on moral, ethical and fiscally responsible self-governance via a
Constitutional Representative
Republic, only a
conservative insurgence can secure and preserve these principles and
values.
Until we can agree on what it means to be a conservative,
no conservative insurgency is possible.
But, that’s just my
opinion….
JB Williams
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JB Williams is a writer on matters of
history and American politics with more than 3000 pieces published over a
twenty-year span. He has a decidedly conservative reverence for the Charters of
Freedom, the men and women who have paid the price of freedom and liberty for
all, and action oriented real-time solutions for modern challenges. He is a
Christian, a husband, a father, a researcher, writer and a business owner. He
is co-founder of action organizations The
United States Patriots Union, a civilian parent organization for The
Veteran Defenders of America. He is also co-founder of The
North American Law Center, a citizen run investigative legal research and
activism organization preparing to take on American's greatest legal battles.
Williams receives mail at: jb.uspu@gmail.com
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