I have spent the last couple weeks grappling with the now inescapable realization that the last 5 or so years of my life have amounted to a slow but steady process of becoming a bloody liberal. I say a bloody liberal, cuz that's what one is - essentially an evil person that sets out to destroy all that is sacred and virtuous and timeless. My reason tells me that this change is fortuitous, for I analyze what I have come to know and accordingly decide that which is good. However, my subconscious knows that liberals are bad and anything associated with liberalism is wrong, lost, and contaminated. As these two components of my brain vye with each other I am left to sort through the aftermath.

Why are liberals evil people? Because they want the government to solve people's problems. What is wrong with you? (sheeeeeesh) that you can't solve your own problems? You don't have enough money? Why, for heaven's sake, go get yourself employment. You don't have an education? You should have studied harder in grade school! (Here is one I'll never forget) "The way I see it, there are two possible ways for a person's healthcare to be paid for, (hold up two fingers) 1) the patient pays for their bill (put down one finger) and 2) the patient says I don't have enough money, so the government should pay for it (put down remaining finger). But now, how can the government pay for someone's healthcare? The government can provide money in one of two ways, (hold up two fingers) 1) raising taxes (put down one finger) and 2) printing more money (put down remaining finger). Both of these methods affect all other citizens of the United States of America and are embodied in the statement "YOU pay for it, YOU pay for my healthcare random citizen, through your direct contribution from taxes or with the devaluation of your dollar through inflation.

Now, my grandparents certainly qualify as wise individuals - there isn't a shred of doubt. They exemplify those who have taken their cast lot and produced bountifully; their steadfastness is second to none. Nevertheless they are victims of a narrow-mindedness that perhaps shouldn't be surprising given their growing up in rural Missouri during the depression. While others suffered, they did not, and they succeeded by assigning the utmost value to self-subsistence: farm, family, and independence.

People who fail become liberals so that other people will solve their problems. My subconcious knows that truth all too well, my formative years shaped it so. Of course only ignorance would allow someone to believe that we are all cast the same lot, and lead to the dogmatism characteristic of my former guardians. I'm not endorsing all of liberalism's tenets, but I acknowledge this foundation and its superiority over that of conservatism. Conservatism has its roots in stressing the equality of cast lots (that or a tacit agreement with the world that some people are just going to suck at life, which is indeed true, but actively supporting that notion is certainly dispassionate), which I believe ultimately derive from two sources 1) religion, which maintains that life is subsidiary and everyone is in perfect position to do the only thing required of them - to love god and accept that he loves you (like every aspect of religion questionable at best) and 2) ignorance. I'll likely broaden on these themes later, for now let me recommend an improvement for the future: population control.

Changing the scale of human numbers won't solve existing fundamental problems that have been with us since the dawn of civilization, but sizing down will produce many benefits (such as deflation of resources, i.e. elimination of famine, etc.) and certainly have less of an impact on the planet and other species, which, if you'll remember, are cast here on Earth as well. Future species or extra-terrestrials may look favorably upon the change, so unpredictable of that devouring world parasite that was H. Sapiens.