User:AmerICan

Userboxes This user is proud to be an American citizen. This user supports our troops! This user fondly remembers President Ronald Reagan. This user believes in the right for every American citizen to keep and bear arms... as outlined by the Second Amendment. This user opposes gun control and other policies Hitler supported. This user watches baseball. This user supports Sarah Palin. This user does not support the liberal Mitt Romney. This user does not support Barack Obama. This user believes it is patriotic to question authority

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:

1. faith in individual rights over collective rights,
2. an acceptance of cause and effect, and a willingness to let people bear the good and bad consequences of their actions,
3. an unwillingness to excuse misbehavior as something beyond the control of the individual, i.e. society made me do it,
4. the idea that respect and dignity are earned, not a right, and must be maintained through appropriate behavior,
5. a belief that truth is absolute, not relative,
6. an acceptance of human nature as it is and not as something that can be changed by government tinkering,
7. support for rule of law over nebulous concepts of supposed "fairness",
8. a belief in established institutions and hierarchies,
9. suspicion of the power of the state, and
10. a preference for liberty over equality.