Well, chances are no, of course. But if you have been a conservative for longer than 15 minutes, you have probably been called one. If you have been a conservative for longer than 15 days, you've probably been called one to your face.
The problem is that the most vocal segment of American society for the last 20 years have been the liberal/progressive faction, and they are apt to call anyone to the right of Lenin a "wing-nut." They have trite sayings like "the fact is that reality has a liberal bias" and they insist that anybody opposed to the creeping socialism we face today is a "racist."
These elements in our society are bulwarked by the fact that liberals dominate American mainstream media, and currently dominate American government.
Let's review some facts, shall we?
According to a recent Gallup Poll from October 26, 2009 entitled "Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group" (notice it says "maintain" and not 'gain') continuing, "Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group."
So conservatives represent 40% of America while Liberals represent only 20%. In fact, as we see above in the chart from Gallup, while conservatives and moderates have exchanged the lead a few times over the last decade, liberals have always been a sharp minority.
So how has it come to pass that the messages pervading our media and our living space claim boldly and loudly that we, the conservative majority of America, are the fringe wing-nut radicals?
There can only be two possibilities: 1) those who make the claim are living in a fantasy world where they themselves make up the majority, or 2) they are participating in an intentional albeit decentralized strategy of marginalization.
I fully believe that it is done intentionally to isolate us and marginalize us. They do this in order to make us feel alone, in the hopes of keeping us quiet. After all, if we are 'wing-nuts' that must mean that people who think like we do only make up some 10% of the population right? And since the socialists are such a huge majority, then clearly there is nothing we can do to stop them, so why try?
The problem is that their rhetoric does not align with the facts. The reality of the dominant American philosophy does not meet up with their liberal bias.
It is time to stop allowing these fringe radical liberals to dominate our society with nothing more than empty rhetoric, and to stand up for ourselves and take action!
The silent majority must be silent no more, or we will find ourselves circling the abyss of 80% taxation and dwindling production. It is time to take a stand, America. Will you help us make 2010 the year of the majority?
Glen Bradley is the 1st Vice Chairman of the Franklin County Republican Party, a member of the North Carolina Campaign for Liberty, and a candidate for the North Carolina State House district 49. His website can be found here.
