The New Road

Fiscal conservatism

I went to wine country with Marsha, John and a friend of his. Turns out the friend is a Republican who has decided to vote for Obama this time around. I asked him why he's a Republican and he said it's because he is a fiscal conservative. Republicans are not fiscally conservative. This graph:

Is both funny and absolutely true. Every time the Republicans get in the debt goes up. Every time Democrats get in the debt goes down. Why people believe this myth of 'fiscal conservatism' is beyond me.

Or, maybe it isn't. I think it's just a euphemism to cover racism. White people vote Republican. I'm white, so I can say that sort of thing. When you look at it, every claim the Republicans make is an outright lie and everyone knows it. They aren't the party of fiscal conservatism, or of the working man, or of the military, of the adult party of good government. They are the white persons party. Plain and simple. Look at McCain at his speeches. Notice anything about the crowds? Yeah. White peoples party.

Actually the kid went on to say that he was more a libertarian. I gave him my standard line that libertarian is the party of "Fuck you, I got mine." I'm actually not sure which makes me angrier, Republicans, who are just clueless, or Libertarians who are selfish, greedy and completely out of touch.