CHAPTER 5
?America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms it
will be because we destroyed ourselves?
President Abraham Lincoln THE MAJOR DIFFERENCE We have discussed many of
the more common differences between the Leftist and the Conservative thinking in
Chapter 2 and the inconsistencies in Leftist thinking in Chapter 3.
It is time to address the most significance difference and that has to do with their
respective choices in Government. Essentially the two choices in the United States are;
Socialism/Communism (a form of government which controls all aspects of life.); and a
Constitutional-Republic. (A form which does not try to control all aspects of life.)
Conservatives, in American, want the latter and understand government is necessary to
provide common necessities (such as roads and ports) and defense. Leftist want
Socialism. In full bloom Socialism always fails taking with it too many lives and gobs
and gobs of value. In spite of all the lessons of history, Leftists are attracted to it like
moths to a flame. It is their fatal attraction.
This type of major difference has always existed from the beginning of social living. Of
course it has had different names and occurred at different places. For example in the
earliest of tribes the members gathered together to cooperatively do the common needs
and to provide defense from the enemy.
A solo act was sure death. There has always been an enemy.
Other human beings will always want what you have. Even in a Tribe this greed and
desire to live off of others work was a problem. The earliest Shamans figured a way to
have others provide food and shelter. They learned to presume to predict the future, with
incantations and assemblage of rocks and stuff.
When they did, they went on welfare, under a different name. Of course they had to lie
good and that too has not changed. Some non-shamans tried their best to secure comforts
from others.
The Chief or head guy‘s main problem was keeping the hunters and warriors in line.
Keeping them in their own Hogan or bed, keeping them from not taking others food,
tools and weapons etc. Some were gung ho and others were laid back. In all the
thousands of years of human existence these differences have always been there. In any
population there has always been about 1/3 who want to be taken care of, about 1/3 in the
middle, and about 1/3 who want to do their own thing, as much as they can. It is the same
in the United States even now. A way to use this 1/3 analysis in today‘s world is to look
at the polls attempting to show a President‘s Popularity. The President will automatically
get at least 1/3. If his popularity is 43 % then only 10% of the middle or other side also
supports him. In a Republic or Democracy a Presidential candidate cannot just run for the
