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Conservativism is a mountain that rises from a swamp.
Call the swamp weakness , or liberalism ,
or any name for what pulls things down into the mud of decay
and surrender.

But the mountain rises up .
And on the lower reaches of the mountain
are villages, where men remember what a man is.
Their word is good;
their doors unlocked;
their guns at hand.

And higher on the Conservative Mountain,
- are lonelier places,
where men wander free with iron faces.
They have no laws that do not come from outside themselves;
yet claim the stars as their court.

And higher, in the cold emptyness of free thought
where only eagles climb,
stands an iron statue of man,
gazing down over the world;
leaning on a long rifle
- and watching; waiting.

                                                                   
American Conservatives are good people.
They seldom lie;
nor tolerate lies.
If they sometimes forget to be conservative;
- they remember again.

No conservative will pos the lie of this story
that the President of the US is akin to any dictator;
Only posers, pretending.

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