The reason I blame social conservatives for harming our nation is because a good number of them were liberals in their youth but have now become hypocrites. That is why I do not trust the actions of those trying to curb our imaginary problem of binge drinking. The chances are they used to get good and tanked on the weekends. Now they are social conservatives. The problem with being a social conservative is that it has not gotten us anywhere.
Social conservatism is the mindset of fear, repression and hate.
Two hundred years ago conservatives told us colored people were less than white people and felt justified in treating them like cattle. A hundred years later they said women were worth less than men and tried to deny them the right to vote. At the turn of the century social conservatives screamed that Asians were not our equals, and when the League of Nations was formed, Japan was unable to get a clause establishing racial equality inserted into the charter. If it were not for the liberals who overcame social conservatives, we would be a backward country where women are property, black people are slaves and the Asian student who aced the last exam is a foreign devil who should go back where he came from. Copyright 2000 by the Iowa State Daily Publications Board.