If you are in favor of armed murderers using assault weapons, people going without adequate health care, increased Government spending while lowering Corporate taxes, restricting a women's control over her own body, opposing equal rights for people who have different sexual orientations, closing the borders and trying to deter people who don't agree with you from voting, I guess you call yourself a conservative.
Conservative is a term that represents someone who is generally opposed to change. At least that's what it meant at one time.
Now it has taken on a certain radical approach where it wants to make many changes, or as they might think of it, a lot or undoing changes, to make America into something it never was, a bigoted white enclave.
Yes, the founders of this country were in most cases "white", ignoring the slaves they imported, but they weren't all the same. You had your New Englanders, originally Pilgrims who had morphed into whalers and traders as well as farmers. Of course New York had the remnants of its Dutch Farmers and in Pennsylvania you had your Quakers.
Delaware had its Swedish heritage and Maryland was a Catholic refuge and Virginia and the Carolina's were peopled by English émigrés who left for various reasons. Georgia was originally a prison colony.
Much of the interior was still held by the French or Spanish and of course we had the Native Americans.
This was not an America that was terribly united but in general we tolerated our differences, at least until the Civil War.
The immigrants who came here for the first few hundred years simply had to get here, we didn't have a lot of restrictions,
This was a radical country that stood for opportunity and freedom, not narrow mindedness and hate.
We need to remember our roots and keep the American dream alive.
The real American dream, the land of opportunity that welcomes immigrants and promotes freedom
The real America has always been a diverse nation and it has made us a great one.
Let's keep it that way.
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