Monday, July 22, 2019

Steve’s Barking;Agnostic politically

I’m an agnostic in my political views.
Meaning I don’t believe in there’s such a thing as conservative, librarian, liberal, or progressive.
I going to give a little test of President’s administrations in my time.
Which President’s administration did this.
(1) Segregated the civil service and bombed African Americans in Norman Oklahoma?
(2) integrated the Arm forces and the civil service?
(3)  wanted a negative income tax and  initiated  affirmative action?
(4) ended ADC as we knew it, and made the criminal justice system into a mess?

My being taught that conservatives in the beginning of this country wanted higher taxes and a strong centralized government.
I was taught that conservatives prior to WW2 didn’t believe in a large military.
Conservatives used to be large believers in law and order, so what happened.
Conservatives in my youth believed in personal responsibility, so why are they whining about everything.
 Liberals on the other hand (too make it  brief ) want to help the down trodden until it effects them, then they act like conservatives.

At one time I called myself a progressive, after all I collect Social Security, worked in government.
collect Medicare, my apartment was subsidized by the government and I went to college on the GI bill.  What changed me?  Understanding that you can have progressive ideas and not be a true progressive because there’s no such thing.

Answers to the questions;
(1) Woodrow Wilson (so called progressive)
(2) Harry Truman ( ran against progressive Henry Wallace)
(3)Richard Nixon (conservative)
(4)Bill Clinton (liberal?)