User:TheQuestioner

Question everything to learn the credibility/uncredibility and legitimacy/illegitimacy of all things.

But accept authority that is legitimate and justified. I.e. don't listen to conspiracy theorists.

I am a libertarian conservative. I believe the greatest tradition of the American Constitution is its tradition of individual liberty. The state should have no ability to regulate people's beliefs and associations. I support conservative theorist Edmund Burke's emphasis on traditionalism as a necessity for a society and his denouncing of the anti-traditionalism of the left-wing radicals of the French Revolution. What Burke meant was that change in all societies requires a connection to tradition or in mroe legal terms "precedent", in order for it to rationally advance. The left-wing radicals of the French Revolution that Burke opposed, had completely denounced traditionalism and created a whole new system based on untested ideas that resulted in a descent into mass violence and repression. Burke was right that society needs to be based on tradition that itself is based on experience and not on radical ideals.

Facts of life that are proven that some people irrationally do not accept:

• John F. Kennedy was shot by a communist named Lee Harvey Oswald, and NOT anyone else like Oliver Stone's terrible movie JFK claims.
• The World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked by Islamist terrorists, and NOT by the Bush administration as crazy 9-11 truthers say
• The Cold War against communism was justified contrary to Marxist revisionist historians, the Soviet Union was an evil empire based on totalitarianism and the failure of communism. Anyone who disagrees with this, should listen to the survivors of the regimes of Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot - communism is an ideology based on violent jealousy of other people's wealth and it always results in mass murder of those who have wealth - just look at what Stalin did to the middle-class Kulak farmers. As to how people thought about communism in the Cold War, just look at the pictures of the people of Berlin protesting and demanding the tearing down of the Berlin Wall in 1989 - the West was right and the west won. Aside from China, North Korea, and Vietnam, most Marxists can no longer be found running their dictatorships of the proletariat and purging their opponents, but now you can find most Marxists in local libraries and universities reading old worn out books on the failed economic theories of Marxism and chattering nonsense about "evil capitalism" while hypocritically they drink a coffee from "evil capitalist" Starbucks!