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Line 15: − You might be an Occupy Wall Street supporter if…+ − #If setting up your tent this week was the most work you've done all year.+ − #If you think the only reason you aren't receiving a government handout is because of those "Zionist bankers".+ − + − + − #If you think the Tea Party hates Barack Obama because they're racist...and loves Herman Cain because they're racist.+ − + − + − + − #If you think government corruptly hands taxpayer money to preferred corporations, and the answer is more government.+ −
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'''Conservatism'''
Conservatives believe in the individual over the collective but temper their belief in individuality by requiring people to act according to a code of conduct based on traditional morality. Liberals believe in the collective over the individual and, where they allow individuality, they disdain traditional morality or personal responsibility. Thus, uniquely conservative values tend to be centered around:
#If your mother urges you to go out and protest so she can have a chance to clean the basement.
# faith in individual rights over collective rights,
#If you think you're cleaning up Wall Street by taking a dump in the middle of it.
# an acceptance of cause and effect, and a willingness to let people bear the good and bad consequences of their actions,
# an unwillingness to excuse misbehavior as something beyond the control of the individual, i.e. society made me do it,
#If you think the immigrant who owns your nearest convenience store should pay for your interpretive dance studies.
# the idea that respect and dignity are earned, not a right, and must be maintained through appropriate behavior,
#If you think that only 1% of the population should carry the other 99%.
# a belief that truth is absolute, not relative,
#If you think everybody should have a job, as long as nobody gets rich enough to hire anyone.
# an acceptance of human nature as it is and not as something that can be changed by government tinkering, and
# support for rule of law over nebulous concepts of supposed "fairness."
#If you think sleeping in a park really changes the world.