Rebels With Out a Cause

It amuses me that the same left wing types who fancied themselves as rebels in the '60s and '70s, who railed against "the establishment" are now the supporters of big-government programs and policies.  These are the type of people who cheered the Cuban revolutionaries, protested the military-industrial complex and said don't trust anyone over thirty. They now are willing to trust the government establishment to unprecedented levels with control of their lives.  They blindly believe the big-government propaganda, despite any evidence to the contrary.  They are no longer rebels, if they ever were, but establishment drones.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are rebels in the mold of the Founders.  They hold government suspect and choose to keep governmental power limited.  They protest when government exceeds its limits or intrudes into private affairs.  Conservatives do not expect government to take care of them, they choose to make their own way.  They value rugged individualism.  The true Conservative does not kowtow to elected officials of any party, they know that these office holders are meant to be our servants, not our masters.

The Left accuses Conservatives of being robots who blindly follow the direction of their right-wing leaders, while they themselves continue to spew talking points directly from the Democratic party and the main-stream, establishment media.  They say they want "change," but they are not even sure what change is really being offered by their government masters.  They display the blind devotion to their party, regardless of how many are caught in crimes or other indiscretions, usually reserved to religious cults...and they think themselves rebels.  Pretty funny, really.