A Different Way to Think

I was discussing being a Libertarian with a black so called former Republican yesterday and he reminded me what I really care about when it comes to politics.  He told me he was a Republican for 36 years until he realized he was just towing the line and supporting people who didn’t care about the things that matter to him.  He claimed to only care about the millitary, getting a raise and making sure his son doesn’t have to worry about things like Pell grants and social security don’t go away.  Keep in mind, this person was the type who doesn’t really listen to you and is a know it all so I just nodded affirmingly and pretended to agree.

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I am definitely on the Herman Cain bandwagon right now.  I’d never really read his story or listed to his ideas until recently, but he definitely creates some intrigue.  I’ve been among the group that hoped to see a Palin or a Trump earn the nomination early on.  I saw Cain as a fringe candidate with no chance at all like an Alan Keyes or Jessie Jackson.  But then my mind was changed when I saw something unexpected.

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Since I had no phone to listen to in my car today I had time to think (2 hrs) on the way to and from work. Thinking back I was always somewhat conservative but didn’t know it.  My experiences working a series of bad jobs helped me discover myself politically in an environment where my race blindly follows one viewpoint and doesn’t nurture or support the opposing views.

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It’s sad that 99% of black people are democrats but for no real reason.  They get caught up in the retoric and believe they are entitled to be propped up by the government to make up the achievement gap instead of getting there through personal responsibility.  Not only do Democrats reinforce the entitlement and try to mandate it through the government, but they continue to depress black people by assuming that our worst enemy isn’t ourselves, but some pale skinned boogeyman with a Republican party membership.

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Just two years ago there was a huge shift in American politics.  Independents and the normally non-voting black population got on the side of Obama and won the White House, while democrats were already in charge of Congress.  The media had all but sounded the death toll on conservativism, saying that America had changed too much for Republicans to win.    There was a small rumble from the Tea Party movement which feared what a Democratic led government was planning to do.  Fortunately for Conservatives rather than being intelligent and transparent with the agenda, the Obama regime decided to ram everything thru Congress early so that once the laws were made we could see how great they would be.  Of course if you take those kinds of chances even when passing something that America doesn’t appear to want like the healthcare reform, you get people mad at you.  That anger has forced the independant voters back to the right.  Add that to the fact that black voters don’t seem to care to vote in the other races when there isn’t a black candidate and the conservative movement has gotten a shot in the arm from the uber liberal president. 

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