Liberal Radio

Recently, I took some time out of my schedule to allow liberal radio to permeate my ears. The topics about which they spoke ranged from grunge music to Australia's Prime Minister's comments on their current involvement in the occupation of Iraq. I heard an advertisement for a labor union created clothing line and an animal activist group using children's comments urging "grown-ups" to do something about polar bears. In all, the passion for which the station backed its message was impressive.

Now that the encouragement has been regurgitated with chunks of my breakfast, I shall proceed to offer my humble and possible caustic opinion. Liberal radio, regardless of zeal and activism, is devoid of a solid political message. All that the liberals on this station could produce politically was a critique of current president George W. Bush. The left must come up with an answer in order to gain permanent followers. To throw stones at the opposition will attract rebels and volunteers, but, in order to cause lasting change in people, one must have an ANSWER to the questions that he poses.

I think that liberal thinking must exist, much as evil must exist for there to be a solid definition of good. We cannot know what is conservative if there exists no liberal. Also, nobody on earth wants a purely conservative way of thinking, governing, or living. It would be just as corrupt and enviable as its purely opposite existence. Modern liberal thought, or "progressive" thought as they enjoy pegging themselves, has many questions and assertions but no plan to answer or fulfill these political conundrums. Please don't get me wrong, they offered opportunities to serve in places and to purchase items that promote good stewardship of ones resources and environment. This does not offer any sort of buttress to the national political campaigns that strictly target what they consider to be a "failed administration" under our current President.

I have yet to meet a liberal that supports the Fair Tax, a bill that would abolish the IRS, create a flat 23% sales tax, eliminate all other taxes, and bring fairness and simplicity to our government's largest source of income. If liberals are about fairness, then why are they OK with high taxation? High taxation isn't fair to citizens who need that money to live day to day. They support high taxation because they support big government. Who else supports big government? The conservatives support big government. What, then, is the different between a conservative and a liberal? The liberals desire to utilize government to legislate our finances. The conservatives yearn to legislate our moral fabric behind the barrel of government guns. Freedom will be snatched from our cold dead hands either way if we don't start voting toward freedom instead of voting using our emotions.