Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Urbane Guerrilla]

And the National Review guys are smarter than you are, with keener vision. They are also not as easily deceived. You're a good little sheep for the collectivists, just the kind of voter they like best. I've an independent turn of mind, and independence means thinking like an adult and not accepting any manifestation of the State as a surrogate parent -- or ever thinking that I should. My father and mother were really quite adequate to the task, thanks ever so much -- while they were needed.

Buying up a sixth of the national economy is a massive governmental intervention in the economic flow: socialism, by any definition. Perhaps you do not study socialism very much?

A highly progressive income tax is also a socialist feature, as a look at the tax code of any of the socialist welfare states can show -- they wouldn't miss that revenue stream. So it's shown me. Now what's your story? Don't you know anything about socialism?

An inflationarily-expensive taxation-supported health care reform scheme will not cure America, but will sicken the dollar unto death. Socialist states all, without exception, offer rationed, half-effective government-issue health services. Quacks like a socialist duck, Redux, but you'd actually believe it's not? I don't think you know so much, my friend.

Comprehensive government financial regulations can't help but be socialism. They are the very socialist type of policymaking, which has the deleterious effect of distorting the free market mechanisms that are the truest barometer of what a society actually values.

Thus we defend our ideology, through knowing more than the average leftist. Our ideology is essentially expressed as "keep that which is worthwhile, resisting any temptation to discard it just to make room for something novel." Discarding the tried and true for something novel is a temptation for the young, but the magic really goes out of that with either parenthood or turning about 35. In some stubborn cases, both.

Your inability to appreciate and internalize conservative values does not add up to "can't defend our own ideology." It is merely a defect of understanding on your part.