I wrote an article about Ron Paul and conservatism

[RonPaulalways]

Here is the digg submission:

http://digg.com/political_opinion/Renaming_conservatism_and_its_mission_Ron_Paul_rel ated

Here is the article:

http://kineticreaction.blogspot.com/2007/07/renaming-conservatism-and-its-mission.html

[RonPaulalways]

Please let me know your thoughts and digg my article if you like it.

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[RonPaulalways]

Thank you so much. Yes please borrow it!

[RonPaulalways]

-August 12th addendum-

Upon a re-read of this article, I realized I never proposed a new term to describe the political idealogy 'conservatism' as I stated I would in the introduction, so I would like to attempt to do so now.

In the article I mention that I believe in our modern age, traditional conservatives are the real progressives, and the leftists are the real conservatives, but despite this, 'progressive' isn't the term that I would support to describe the political idealogy that we now call 'conservatism'.

I thought a lot about what value one who tries to reduce coercion believes in, and I concluded that that value is liberty. Upon thinking on this, I further concluded that the term 'liberal' has been grotesquely misappropriated by the left. The group that advocates greater coercion via government regulations and taxes should not be called the 'liberals'. It is advocates of limited government that are the champions of liberty. So is 'liberal' the term conservatives should demand they be called? No because I think that the belief in personal liberty does not fully encompass the traditional conservative movement. There is also an element of promoting family values, national solidarity, and personal responsibility that defines the traditional conservative. I think therefore that a term that could properly describe the traditional conservative is "responsible liberal". The "responsible" part describes the factor of believing in personal responsibility, rather than believing that the state should take care of each individual. A responsible person takes care of his family and is charitable to his neighbors, not because the government forces him to, but because that is the right thing to do. A responsible liberal believes that government should give people maximum liberty and that people should use that liberty responsibly, meaning not indulging in pre-marital sex, financial carelessness, drug-use, etc just because they can. I am in no way certain that this term, 'responsible liberal', is the best term out there to describe the political idealogy of conservatism, but in the interest of advancing the public discussion, I've put it forth here. Oh and leftists, they should be called socialists, because that is the term that most accurately describes them.

[TeeJay]

bump

[Jennifer Reynolds]

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[RonPaulalways]

Thank you so much. You don't know how much I appreciate that.

[Meistro1]

dugg and reprinted ^_^ Nice work.