As I sit in Starbucks I often have political discussions with people on all sides of the political spectrum. When people ask me what my political persuasion is I tell them that I am a libertarian leaning right. I don't lean right due to religious reasons, rather because I believe in free-market capitalism. After all, I've been self-employed all my life. However, when one says that they lean right in their political displacement they assume that you are a Republican or that you have Republican style beliefs.
If they are left-leaning themselves, they often think that you must be a bad person because for some reason they believe all Republicans are bad. It's simply not so. In fact I'd like to discuss this with you for a few moments by might. You see, there is a very interesting book I think you might like to read on this very topic. The book is; "The I Hate Republicans Reader - Why the GOP is Totally Wrong About Everything" edited by Clint Willis, Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, NY, 2003, 417 pages, ISBN: 1-56025-508-0.
In fact, I'd like to recommend this book to everyone, not only those who choose to hate Republicans because they think they are bad, lack empathy, or don't care - but everyone else too. The reality is that most Republicans I know do very much care about the country, and they do have empathy, most of them give a higher percentage of their income to charity - an interesting fact that you should probably consider before making any misstatements, or calling them bad. Most Republicans I know are one with tough love, they are all about teaching people to fish rather than giving him three fishes on the taxpayer's dime.
If that makes them vehemently opposed to your line of thinking, I wouldn't fault them for opposing socialism. Although this book does expose some of the challenges with various people in the ranks of Republicanism, with dubious chapter titles such as; "Secrets and Lies; Dirty Tricks; Fat Cats and Corporate Welfare; Incompetence; Big Brother; and American Empire," I still believe that you will find just as many rather hard-hitting innuendos available to Democrats and socialists in this country as well.
If you are Republican you need to buy this book so you know what the other side is thinking, and to listen to their arguments, perhaps for rebuttal. If you are a left-leaning socialist and you hate Republicans, you should know the real reasons justifying such negativity. The reason I read this book myself was I wanted to see what the naysayers of conservatives might be. I found so many innuendos, half-truths, and misstatements about what being a Republican is all about that I could easily refute every single paragraph of the entire book.
Nevertheless, Sun Tzu reminds us that you should know yourself, and your enemy and in 100 battles, or rather 100 elections you will prevail. Right now we must prevail and maintain free-market capitalism, and not allow our country to be turned over to socialists who have hijacked the Democratic Party. Therefore my recommendation for you to read this book stands. Please consider all this and think on it.
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