Tag: restorative

  • Pass the Restorative

    Pass the Restorative

    I have concluded that I am not a “conserve”ative. I am a “restore”ative. I do not desire to conserve the new healthcare plan, the degradation to our Constitution that has occurred over the last 150 years, the culture of licentiousness and abortion that characterizes our country… I wish to restore our Constitution to its original clarity. I wish to restore the culture of life that led our founders to write the words, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” I wish to restore a citizenry that values freedom and responsibility…

    The problem with the moniker “conservative” is the very root of the word. How can the act of conserving define my belief? It cannot! What defines my belief is that which I desire to conserve and that which I desire to cast onto the dung heap… If it is the business of “conservatism” to maintain the status quo, then, as G.K. Chesterton said, “The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.”

    In a nutshell, I am fed up with the labels “conservative” and “liberal”. The labels are practically meaningless. The fact is that as a rule “conservatives” are more liberal than “liberals”. That is, “conservatives” are more likely to live liberality, to practice gratuitous giving and humbly embrace gratuitous receiving. “Conservatives” are more likely, as a group, to value liberty while their counterparts seek to create government bureaucracies and regulations designed to restrict liberty. “Conservatives” are more likely to trust their fellow citizens and to allow them the freedom to choose Good while their counterparts seek to coerce the populace into living according to the restrictive standards set by a plutocracy of social engineers.

    So I’m more inclined to favor those who call themselves “conservatives” than those identified as “liberals” but if you want to call me something, call me a restorative – and on that note, I think I’ll go have one…