Earlier today I read a post that someone had made, in which they stated that they were reading a book about politics. This person also stated that prior to reading the book she thought she was a "moderate" but now realizes she is "left of the left." A response to that post was from one of her friends, which stated that she "was a moderate," but that "the right keeps pushing more and more right and it's moving the center."
Reading this gave me a very sick feeling. Knowing that there are those out there who may feel this way is deeply troubling to me. I wish they would read the statements and literature produced by the Founding Fathers of this great nation. If they would do this, they would see that it is not the right who has changed, but the left. The Founding Fathers believed in freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They believed in low taxes, property ownership, and the right to bear arms.
This country was founded on Conservative principles. The people of the time had lived under oppressive government, in which the government controlled every facet of their lives. They hated that life and yearned for freedom and liberty.
A good place to start for any seeking to understand the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, is Thomas Paine's Common Sense pamphlet which was published and distributed in 1776. You can find it here:
http://www.ushistory.org/Paine/commonsense/singlehtml.htm
It is the so called "progressives" which have radically drifted away from the center, not the other way around.
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