What Are Conservative Values?

 

2022-10-11 What Are Conservative Values and Why Do They Matter?

            Some people believe that the rising generation is more liberal than conservative. I would say that there is a good chance of them being more liberal because they are exposed to more left-wing values as they move through the educational system from elementary school to graduate school. Left-wing values are also taught by the society surrounding them – the movies, television programs, social media, and even Disneyland, according to Dennis Prager. 

            Prager indicated that the rising generation is not being exposed to conservative values unless parents are teaching them in the home. I agree with Prager on this point. I am obviously conservative to anyone who reads my blog, but I am the most conservative member of my family. I do not know, but I believe that all my children voted for Joe Biden in the last election. My only consolation is that they all live in states where their votes were countered by more conservative votes. This is important to me because it means that my children, despite voting for him, are not responsible for the election of the worst president in the history of the United States.

            Even though my children may not vote for conservative candidates, I believe that they hold conservative values. They are all married to a member of the opposite sex. They are all productive members of society, and they go about doing good. In my mother’s heart, I believe that they all recognize that Biden was a poor choice for POTUS. So, I believe that their values are more conservative than liberal. So what are conservative values?

            Prager believes that “the most important conservative value [is] liberty.” He wrote, “Conservatives believe in individual liberty … the primary value of the American experiment.” He gave the following examples to prove his point about America emphasizing liberty more than other nations do.

 

·         The French designers of the Statue of Liberty gave the statue to America.

·         The iconic symbol of America is the Liberty Bell.

·         The one inscription on the Liberty Bell is a verse about liberty from the Book of Leviticus: “And you shall proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants.”

·         Americans sing of their country as “the land of the free” and “sweet land of liberty.”

·         Until recently, every America schoolchild knew by heart Patrick Henry’s cry, “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

·         Chinese young people who protested the communist takeover of Hong Kong waved the American flag.

 

Prager continued by stating that liberty was important to the Founders. They understood that large governments are not compatible with liberty. They believed that a central government was necessary, but they wanted it to be as small and limited as possible. Prager pointed out that there are other victims of big government besides liberty.

 

Moreover, liberty is not the only victim of big government. Human life is also a victim. Every genocide of the 20th century, the century of genocide, was committed by big government. Without big government, 100 million people would not and could not have been slaughtered, and a billion more would not and could not have been enslaved. (There was one exception: the Hutu genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda, which was tribal in nature. Tribal culture, like left-wing culture, emphasizes the group over the individual.)

In order to limit the size and power of the national government, the Founders delegated most governmental powers to the states. They did so in the Constitution by specifying what powers the national government had and by asserting that all other powers be delegated to the states.

In addition, they increased the power of the states by having presidential elections decided by the states—the Electoral College—rather than by the popular national vote, and by how they structured the Senate, one of the two branches of Congress. They gave every state equal representation in the Senate, no matter how small the population of the state….

Liberty is a liberal value as well as a conservative value, but it has never been a left-wing value. Liberty cannot be a left-wing value, because the more liberty individuals have, the less power the government has. Conversely, the weaker the state, the weaker the Left.

            The left-wing that is currently controlling the federal government wants power. The desire for more power is the reason why they keep threatening to get rid of the Electoral College and to change the rules of the Senate. They want all the power, and they are willing to destroy America to get it. To save America, we all need to vote RED in the November election.