Ederik Schneider: 'Fixing Big Government is Not Conservative'

Source:The Daily Beast- it's the job of Socialists and Nationalists to fix Big Government. Not anyone else.

“Go West, young man,” New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley famously urged soldiers coming home from the Civil War and wondering what to do with the rest of their lives. In that spirit, here’s my politically corrected advice to millennials who want to change the world: “Go local, young gender-unspecified person.”

Don’t look to Washington to remake American society from the top down.  And don’t assume that real political change can only come through massive expansions of federal power." 

From The Daily Beast 

"The past few years have put the size and role of government at center stage of our national politics. But the raging debates about how much Washington is doing and spending have involved almost exclusively yes-or-no questions about the left's vision of government. The right has been very clear about what government should not be doing, or should be doing much less of, but it has not had nearly enough to say about just what government should do." 

From National Affairs 

Originally the title: "Fixing Big Government is Not Conservative" came from a YouTube video that I saw about 10 years ago, but since no one else seems to want to claim that title now, I will. 

It's not the job of Conservatives, to conserve big government or fix big government. (At least not Conservative in a constitutional or political sense) Its the job of Conservatives to conserve the U.S. Constitution, the American way of life for all Americans, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, culture, lifestyle, etc. It's the job of Conservatives to conserve our individual rights which grants every American the right to be themself and be individuals. 

It's the job of Conservatives, to fix government, when government is too big, or even too small and not doing the things that we need it to do. Conservatives shouldn't say: "Big Government is not working and this is how we should fix it." What they should say instead is: "Of course big government doesn't work and this why. Which is why we shouldn't have Big Government in the first place. And this is the type of government that we should have instead."

Let Socialists, Nationalists, Theocrats, Monarchs, worry about fixing something that can't be fix, which is big government. Because the reason why big government never works, because it's too big. Once you take power away from individuals and give it an organization that doesn't even know the people whose lives you've given it the to power to manage, of course it's going to fail. Which is as predictable as getting wet in the rain, or glass breaking when it hits a concrete floor.