We need the government to save us from ourselves :(

[N-Man]

I do not recall labeling myself a conservative, and I would certainly hate that sharing an idea with a certain group means I must share all their ideas.

A wise man once said, before getting hanged, something like this to his son:

"Mon fils, n'accepte jamais les idées préconçues en bloc, mais façonne plutôt ton propre opinion."

More or less, that means to never accept ideas in block, and to never join any "label" or political group. What you win in power you lose in individualism.

I would also like to remind you that I am not American, and that the "conservatives" in this country are much more center-focused. They've never even proposed anything such as tax cuts, not for the rich or anyone. European 'conservatives' (Christian-Democrats, Chirac's Gaullists) are much the same. Just because a party isn't outright bloodred doesn't make them reactionaries.

I think it's great that by the fact that I prone personal responsibility and individualism, I get labeled a conservative reactionary. Shows where your ilk is headed.

Sure, I'm reading too much into this, I should just go to bed and not mind... then when I wake up in 20 years and smoking is banned, a big mac costs 30 bucks and God knows what other goofy laws are enacted, THEN I should start worrying a little.