The very definitions of Conversative and Liberal have changed, at one time it meant how a person read the constitution. Conservative meant literal interpretation, versus Liberal meant conceptual interpretation. I think, this changed past the whole Greenback's (or paper money) debate. Prior to that, I am not certain.
Today though... today's political-land scape makes me sick, as in I almost throw up if I start thinking too hard about it.
I'm going to admit one thing here, on this rarely viewed message board with the realative anonyminity that exists on such things:
I've done a lot in my life, I've been a cook, salesman, housekeeper, soldier, a manager, an inventor, and an engineer. I am father, son, brother, and husband. I've made and lost a lot of money. I've lived well and have been homeless. I've had to defend my life, and I have done so without taking another's. I've been called up in scenerios where with in a few minutes something horrible that will take hundreds, thousands, and sometimes in the tens of thousands of lives and what I know and say is what is standing between preventing the crisis, and then told thanks by voice on the otherside of the phone and slip back unnoticed again. I look to the newspapers to see if anything was posted, sometimes their is, rarely though and I wonder how many potential incidents around the world had just that past day were prevented and never mentioned again. At first I took an ego to it, I SAVED THE WORLD, then after a while, it became those ungrateful son's of bitches, what if I wasn't here, then I realized, their is almost always someone their, otherwise every day humanity would be falling apart. If I didn't answer, someone else would.
Few things truelly scare me, but one thing does and that is as I've learned and experienced more, I have realized their is a small collective of people who control everything, but it's not an illuminati that is all knowing, instead it's driven by people's greed and they do giant experiments of exercising control of society, humanity, and and every so many generations it reaches a peak before the system comes down. I fear for the future. Perhaps, this is the point all older people get to, they eventually gain enough information and knowledge about the comings and goings of people, we see what previous generations have created, become afraid of it, attempt to fix it, but ultimately find ourselves unable to fix humanity as a whole. I hope that is it, me getting old, and not some WWIII.
