Constitutionalism, Liberalism, and Socialism

True conservatism in America is actually Constitutionalism, which belongs to neither the Republican or Democratic Parties, who are neither following the Constitution or the beliefs of the Founding Fathers. It is a set of ideals that are based on the Constitution of the United States and the works of the Founding Fathers, such as Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers. In the United States, we have turned away from the Constitution and the Founders intent. We must turn back our politicians and the beauracratic machine in Washington, forcing them to follow the laws and restrictions set for them by the Constitution. I know that this is not generally considered to be fashionable in the world today. But the United States was meant to be the city set on the Hill to show the world what true government should be. We turned away from it in order to become fashionable like Europe, with Socialism and Communism. We fought a war in Europe to end National Socialism, and a cold war with Russia over Communism, yet while we fought those wars we permitted it a foothold in America in our government. Government is notorious for false promises, but we bought this promise, hook ,line and sinker, "if you give me your right and freedoms I promise that I will let you have half of them back. Remember that all this is for the security of the nation, so you can actually have your freedoms." It is like giving all your money to the mob for protection against the other mob, with the hope that the first mafia would let you have you money back. We have become like Tiny Tim, during Tax season, "Please, sir, could I have a little more," and the federal government, more and more, is saying "No, and I am keeping a little more for your audacity in asking this favor." It was our Money to begin with, and we need to be like our Founders and say "No more, this far and no further," despite the fact that this philosophy is not popular at the moment. Thomas Paine said this in the Introduction to Common Sense, "Perhaps the sentiments in the following pages, are not sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor, a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises formidible outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason." This can be seen from both sides, both the socialist side and the constitutionalist side.
First, the socialist side will see this as meaning that because they pulled one over on the population of America, and the outcry is in defense of custom, but it doesn't matter, that tumult will subside and time will let them continue on the path that they established.
Second, the constitutionalist side sees it like this. The people have not seen these kinds of things as wrong for so long that it had the superficial concept of being right, but because the government, so blatant, performed as it has recently in dirrect opposition of the will of the people, there is a outcry against the fashionable socialism shown by the government. Though their opinions have not been proved as generally fashionable, but so long as the tumult doesn't subside, time will give them the converts rather than the federal government.
Like I said I am a Constitutionalist and I believe that it is the responsibilty of the American people to continue to stir the pot of public opinion and learn our true form of government and exercise our rights as the biggest check and balance of the federal government. The Preamble to the Constitution starts with the words "We the People of the United States" showing where the authority of the federal government comes from. To many of us have not learned what our government systems are and that we need to watch the politicians and ensure that they follow our will and our Constitution, and deny them the authority to follow socialist policies that have gotten our country in the trouble that is has gotten into.
Now, I must explain why I call the progressive liberalism in the government, Socialism and Communism, so let me give you a quote from Norman Thomson, a well known American Socialist, "The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." We are now waking up, and looking around seeing that our country is a Socialist nation, and we do not have a clue how it happened. President Obama is not the beginning of the Socialist era of our government, he is just the latests in a long line of Socialistic program pushers. The Socialist Party of America didn't even have a candidate for President the last election, because Obama was the most openly Socialist candidate out there. This is why I call Progressive liberalism Socialism and will continue to do so as well.
Brutus