Well, you’d say what Bill Whittle says about conservatives in these two videos. (H/T ECM)
1) Conservatives value limited government and free enterprise
If you like having a choice when you go shopping or if you like having a job, then you’re a conservative. If you like collecting welfare, and preventing people from choosing better schools for their children, then you’re a progressive/liberal/socialist/communist.
2) Conservatives value individual choices over government control
If you think that you know best how to run your own life, then you’re a conservative. If you think that the government should run your life for you, then you’re a progressive/liberal/socialist/communist.
What do conservatives look like?
Here’s my favorite conservative, Representative Michele Bachmann:
This is what conservatives look like and sound like. Are you one?
WINTERY KNIGHT 
Those are some great videos, really well reasoned.
I think there was a weak spot in the first video, though, when he was talking about how all progressive govts in the past have failed. He didn’t really expand on the examples he gave apart from some quick popcorn one-liners, and he seemed to dodge the blatan progressive objection of, “What abotu scandinavia???”
I think he also could have made a great example of that story of some farmers on a commune in china. You probably know the one I’m talking about, hwo they slowly become more and more inefficient because there is no incentive for them to work hard and they don’t see the fruit of their own labour. in the end it breaks down so bad they actually make a secret agreement to split the land between them, thereby each cultivating his own private property and reaping the rewards for his hrd work. This incentivized success and chanelled their sinful nature into something constructive.
Of course, for the ‘conservative’, the problem comes when the choice isn’t so clear cut. It’s not between small, free enterprise and big, central govt. There are huge multi-national corprorations who support repubs and dems alike to protect their vested interests. We see this with obama and his beloved hedge funds, and bush and his beloved oil companies. It is manifest within the political system simply because of the selfish human nature.
Conservatism can be portrayed as supporting big business, in particular monopolies which are almost indistinguishable from govt monopolies.
Not only do monopolies kill competition, raise prices against the consumer and develop inefficiency (basic micro-economics), they also pay off politicians to protect their interests in government.
The problem for conservatives is how to deal with this without using ‘bad government’ as the solution. Also, many countries in europe, practically every single one in fact, seem to be functioning with progressive states and he didn’t seem to deal with that very much.
It was a great introduction though and thanks for sharing the videos, WK!
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