The above headline really should cause folks to take notice. Conservatives have been attacked by those in the media. Liberals have badmouthed, ridiculed, taunted, abused and used every means possible to sway public opinion against conservatism. Still Gallup Poll finds that forty percent of our population is made up of conservative thinking individuals. Only 20% call themselves liberal with 36% described as moderate.
Even with the propaganda campaign designed to steer people toward liberalism, Americans have maintained independent thinking and conservative ideals. (A big part of this may be having had ten months of unbridled liberalism in Washington.)
I find this extremely comforting at a time when there isn’t much, politically speaking, to be happy about.
In fairness I should add that liberalism has been attacked by conservatives also. It seems that there is a difference, but perhaps I am biased, in that conservatives attack the tenets of liberalism while liberals attack the conservative person. I acknowledge, however, that statements made by liberals in the administration are often used in radio and commentary to turn people from liberalism and that a few attack on a personal level.
It is my hope that as a nation we rise above the politics of personal destruction and never attack personally but always, if we must war, have a war of ideas and ideals. Sometimes it is difficult to be against communism without pointing out the communist among us. Even this, however, should be strictly on a political idealogy level and not attack the person as an individual.
