Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 3:10:03 PM
Democrats, especially the Leftists, love to claim that the GOP is a loose, fragile, and nonsensical coalition of the Religious Right, other social conservatives, big business types, military hawks, and libertarians.
But it makes sense for social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and libertarians to stick together as Republicans.
Yes, I know that there isn’t consensus among Republicans on immigration and right-to-life issues, but most of the priority goals of the different factions are compatible.
Why? Conservative social values are good for business and reduce the demand for social spending of tax money and the demand for stronger regulations. Conservative social values make the nation strong, stable, and a good place to do business.
Conservative social values make good employees. First of all, we’ve been aborting so much of our labor in this country that is has taken both legal immigrants and illegal aliens to supply the labor needs of the businesses that don’t move their operations outside of the country. The low unemployment figures indicate this. It is no coincidence that Roe v. Wade was in 1973 and we’ve had a massive influx of illegal alien labor since the 1986 amnesty.
But there is more to being a good employee than just being alive. Being sober, avoiding vice, treating yourself and others with respect when it comes to sexual relations, respecting authority, adhering to integrity over easy crime, and self/family reliance over dependency are good qualities in am employee, are they not? Who thinks that a person would make an ideal employee if he or she gets drunk or stoned, smokes, sleeps around without much discretion or with few boundaries, is openly crude in mixed company, would pilfer or embezzle as long as they were unlikely to get caught, disrespects any boss, and looks to “someone else” to do everything for them?
Since employees will be working with both men and women and may have either as a boss, being raised by both a man and a woman better prepares an employee for that arrangement.
An employee who avoids substance abuse and saves their body and heart for marriage is more likely to be physically and emotionally healthy, and thus to show up to work and to be a smaller burden when it comes to health benefits.
Conservative social values make good citizens. A stable, married household is more likely to teach self-restraint, self-respect, self-reliance, respect for authority, and healthy interaction with both sexes. A religious household is more likely to teach the importance of charity. This means less crime and less dependence on the government, which should mean lower taxes. It means more voluntary cooperation and less dysfunction in groups.
You have a better chance of creating a lasting and healthy, stable, married household if you do not have vice addictions and you save sex for marriage.
We can’t have a more libertarian society function well without self-control. We can’t have strong businesses without reliable employees.
That is why social and fiscal conservatism go hand in hand. If, for the sake of libertarian ideals, we don’t maintain laws and courts that actively promote social conservatism, we should at least prevent Leftists from enacting laws and appointing judges who will undermine the social conservatism of the people.