This country has been successful not only because of the innate decency,
creativity, and independence of the American people, but because of Christianity,
capitalism, and conservatism. Unfortunately, all too often these days,
conservatives spend the majority of our time correcting myths, misinformation,
and misrepresentations about the movement instead of explaining our principles
to people.
That's no coincidence.
Because conservatism is so effective, its opponents have to create a false vision
of conservatism to oppose because the real thing is so genuinely appealing to
people. That's not to say that there aren't bad conservatives or that conservatism
is flawless -- that's certainly not the case. But in the real world, you're not going
to find a political ideology that produces better people or better results than
American conservatism.
Of course, if you're not conservative, you may find that hard to believe because
you've been told...
Conservatives are racist: How is it that people who explicitly reject the
idea of discrimination by race are called bigots by people who believe in judging
Americans by the color of their skin? For every supposed racist incident drummed
up by the media, you can find a hundred instances of conservatives proving that
they don't care about skin color. If people are so bound and determined to call
conservatives racist that they'll ignore mountains of evidence to the contrary
while desperately looking for mole hills that support their beliefs, there's nothing
the Right can do about it. However, if you take an honest look at it, what you'll
find is that the single least racist group of people in America are conservatives.
Conservatives hate science: One of the great ironies of this charge is
that in scientific debates, conservatives almost inevitably use science-based
arguments and the other side typically responds with nasty smears, doomsday
stories, and sad stories about polar bears. Then bizarrely, it's conservatives, not
their opponents, who are accused of being "anti-science." Pay attention the next
time you see a conservative and a liberal debating a scientific issue and see who's
actually using science-based arguments and who's calling names and trying to
scare you.