LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE, UP OR DOWN.

In my dictionary the word liberal means "Open to new behavior or opinions and willing to discard traditional values." I like that word "open." Open, to me, means alive. Open to new ideas, new feelings, new knowledge. Open means you're not stuck, you're free-flowing, if something new looks better than what you've been doing, you're willing to try it out. You're open. Openess leads to evolution. Yeah, Mother Nature's a liberal. How do you think we crawled out of the ocean, over the land, and into the present. Openess. Openess leads to learning, which leads to advancement, which leads to things moving forward. Mistakes are made, that's part of any learning, but being open you learn from those mistakes, and that gives you knowledge. Someone who's liberal becomes wiser, more experienced, more open. What's wrong with that?

Conservative on the other hand, according to my dictonary, means "Holding to traditional values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion."
Holding. Not letting go. Stuck in the same place and locking all the doors. Suffocating. Repeating the same things over and over again because it's what you've always done and, if it's up to you, what you'll always do. Cautious about change. Boring. Scaredy cats. Change makes them nervous they may discover something that contradicts their precious traditional values. Conservative thinking is a coffin where the only innovation is the amazing amount of dust it collects. If nature was conservative we'd still be breathing water.

So, how did liberal become a dirty word, while the word conservative is allowed to be waved like a flag of honor? Why have the dust-gatherers been allowed to intimidate those in tune with true evolution? Why are the zombies ruling the living?

George Bush declared himself a 'compassionate conservative.' He is an arrogant, ignorant, boor, who has led this country into a series of disasters from which we may never recover. And now there's McCain, a prisoner once again, this time by the Conservative branch of his party. He's stifled his personal values, has gone from fighter to backbiter, and has run a shameful campaign. The conservatives have ruled this country through Bush, have ruined it, and still they insist their way is better. That's because they don't see anything except their way.

They have a shackled McCain to do their bidding. He sounds like McCain, looks like McCain, but he's become just another pod in conservative politics. Maverick, my ass. He's a conservative, and that means he can't move forward because he's always looking backward. The conservatives are taking America into the grave, we have to get out of that grave, get out into the open. Yeah, I like that word, 'open.' Let's open every window, every door, let's explore the new, push out the stale air of conservatism, and breath in fresh air, before it's too late.

Yeah, that's right, what I'm saying is, Vote for Obama.