The current political climate can be quickly defined as the strongly held beliefs of liberals versus conservatives.  Any attempt to moderate these differences, reach a compromise, usually ends with liberals and conservatives more strongly entrenched in their position.  I have always held to a strong conservative position that, at least in my opinion, is logical and well reasoned.

Liberals would describe themselves, in most cases, as better educated and intelligent.  It has always baffled me that a liberal can say, “Yes, that maybe true but, …”  If something is true, factual, how can there be a “but”, a qualification to a truth, a fact.  Either it is true, it is a fact or it isn’t.  More often than not, the “but” preceded a statement of change.  A forecast or as some might say a “Prognostication.”   The “but”, the conjunction, the contrast that followed was not a fact and since it would represent some future outcome it was not yet a truth.

Often I would be asked how I felt about something.  I even had a few people that did not know or understand me tell me that I needed to get in touch with my feelings.  I have over the years understood that getting in touch with your feelings involved departing from facts and truths.  Now this departure from the truth is somewhat like asking one of my grandchildren what happened to the cookies?   You will get a reasoned answer, fiction can be reasonable, that will ultimately place the credit for cookie consumption on some other person.

If I tell one of the grandchildren that they must brush their teeth and go to bed, the response is “Okay Grandaddy but first…”  It is much the same with discussing the realities of many of the troubling issues of the day with liberals.  This global warming stuff for example is not proven, it is not a fact but, liberals reply can we afford to take a chance?  What if global warming is real?  We can’t wait.  The discussion has just moved from fact to fright.  The liberals’ feeling of fear is now the controlling the discussion.

Immigration issues likewise turn from controlling the borders to a discussion of the families that have already circumvented the existing rules and regulations of our government.  The discussion then becomes one of how can you mistreat these good people, the children of the hardworking people who wanted to make our country their home.  The discussion of legality is muted by the feelings of compassion.

Welfare, in all of its various flavors, substitutes feelings of compassion for the concept that we are each responsible for our own welfare.  The responsibility ostensibility is transferred to the government, but the cost of welfare is transferred to the taxpayers of our country.  This is justified by wealth, envy that inexplicably justifies robbery of the working and wealthy through taxation for the benefit of many that don’t want to be responsible for themselves.

In these cases the counterpoint for fact is the feelings of fear, benevolence, or paternalism.  The missing fact in all of this is those feelings of fear, benevolence, or paternalism, support the fleecing of the working people of America.