Political Comment # 4: Review of the REAL (as opposed to the "political") Definitions of Terms.

conservative:  (definition, 2)  Supporting political ideas that include less involvement by government in business and people's lives, by encouraging everyone to work, earn their own money and having strong ideas regarding moral behavior.

moderate: (definition, 2)  Having political opinions or beliefs that are not extreme and that most people consider sensible and reasonable.

liberal: (definitions, 2& 3)  Supporting political ideas that include more involvement by governmnent in business and people's lives, but willing to respect the different behaviors by individual people, in their private lives.  Supporting, or allowing, changes in political, social, or religious systems, that give individual people more freedom.

Situations:
1.  A business debits your personal checking account, without your prior knowledge or permission.
2.  A business, misapplies your payment, consistently "overbills" you.   You cannot change vendors for the service this business provides, partially because government regulations favor them having a "monopoly" on their service.
3.  A US President, initiates a War, partially because, in a "candid statement," at the start of the war, "the leader of the other country attempted to kill his father."  This President makes that statement only once.
4.  Over the last 3 years, several "national politicians," most representing one party, are "caught" in "compromising moral circumstances."
5.  One party is represented by "media personalities," whose main message is one of division, hate and "the big lie(s)," to influence the unwary or unthinking, to the purpose of generating increasing anger against government.
6.  A political party wins a "lanslide victory" in a national election with a key "plank" of it's election promises to the electorate, of "cutting taxes." After being installed in office, this party supports continuing "special tax breaks," for the very rich, causing the general electorate to continue bearing a heavier tax burden.

This list could become as long as your memory and include more "real examples," (all the above ARE real examples) of current situations.

Put aside, for a moment, that political parties, especially one, misuses the above terms, by altering their real definitions.  Forget current definitions by politicians and use the dictionary definitions.

When reviewing the dictionary definitions, above and considering them against the list of real current examples of what is "really going on now, has occurred recently and continues to occur," despite American moral integrity and tradition, which of the above 3 ways do YOU WANT TO DEFINE YOURSELF?

Dr. Walter Wayne Hopewell

Political Comment # 3: Why I (Almost) Cannot Curently Vote Republican.

Which political party is "the party of 'NO?'"
Which political is "the party favoring 'THE RICH?'"

Which political party is "the party of 'BIG BUSINESS?'"

Which political party is "MEANSPIRITED" and uses thos "meanspirited words and actions" to replace  REAL LEADERSHIP?

Which political party is "the party of the WAR?"

Which political party is "the party protecting, promoting and the 'pawn' of, the MILITARY/INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX?"

I am a SENIOR CITIZEN, WHITE MALE, former MANAGER and MANAGEMENT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING NEGOTIATOR (with several Unions) and a resident of the State of COLORADO. 

By these demographics, I SHOULD BE a "staunch" republican.

Because of the above reasons, I cannot currently vote for any republican candidate, for any political office.  

Well, "almost" no republican.

If I had a chance to vote for Olympia Snow, I probably would.  She doesn't always follow the "republican party line" and that's one reason why I like and respect her so much.

But she's a Senator from Maine and I live in Colorado, so I can only "wish" I could vote for her.

The "common people" (I consider myself one) almost "caught on" to the "republican act," during Nixon.  I hope and pray that us commoners REALLY CATCH ON TO the republicans and prevent you from being elected to or remaining in, political office, for several years.

I am convinced that, a REAL LOSS OF POLITICAL POWER, is the only thing republicans will ever understand and therefore, become the catalyst for changing their values.

HASTEN THE DAY!!  In writing this blog of political opinion, I purposely did not capitalize certain terms.

I want to vote repulican again, at least 50-50 with "the other party."  But until the republicans change, they will be the "party of small," to me.

Dr. Walter Wayne Hopewell