The Risk of Believing Conservatism

DO YOU BELIEVE that climate change is a hoax, a liberal scam, and that even if it is happening, which is doubtful, it is entirelly natural, and beyond human influence or control? Do you believe that humanity should continue to use fossil fuels as long as they remain plentiful, because using them has no disecernable impact on the environment, and creates material prosperity for everyone, and that the manufacture of as much material prosperity as possible should remin a primary objective of American, and indeed human enterprise? Are you convinced that all illegal immigration into the United States should be stopped immediately by constructing a massive wall along the entire southern border of the country, and that legal immigration should be strictly limited to people who possess skills needed in the United States? Do you beieve that Covid 19 is nothing other than another variety of the flu, that it has been much overblown out of proportion by liberals, the ainstream liberal media, and by the government, and that vaccine mandates, mask wearing, social distancing, quarantining, and vaccinating are being implemented for the sole purpose of implementing more government control over the population and limitinfg individual freedom? Do you believe that the United States was founded as a Christian nation, and that today's Christians are under attack by the political left and non Christian community in a "war against Christianity", and the today's Christians must do all in their power to ensure that the United States remains forever a Christian nation, one nation under God? Do you believe that socialism is evil, a form of government control, and that all good Americans must fight to keep socialism out of the American economic system? Are you convinced that all government intervention in theeconomy, including redistribution of wealth, is unfair and harms the nation by penalizing hard work and success, and rewarding those who have not done what is necessary to achieve success on their own? If you answer "yes" to all the above, you are most definitely a conservative, and probably an evangelical Christian conservative. Most importantly, if you answered "yes" to these questions, you are not only wrong, but dead wrong, are living in a false reality, and are harmful to the well being of the United States and the world. There is more proof that climate change is real, and caused by humans, than there is proof that the holocaust happened, that the Earth is round, or that evolution by natural selection explains the existence of the human species. Climate change, in other words, is too obvious to be denied any longer by any reasonably intelligent person. The same is true of evolution, but, a shockingly high percentage of evangelical christian conservatives refuse to accept this reality as well. Covid 29 has killed nearly three quqrters of a million Americans, even with a readily available vaccine. That is hardly "just another flu". Socialism in America? How aobut social security, medicare, public streets and highways, public police and fire departments, and public schools, to name but a few examples of successful socialsm in America today. Immigration? Without immigrants, the aging American native born population would soon run out of working age people, and become a nation of elderly non producers. Immigrants tend to be young, healthy, ready to work. They pay taxes, and they keep the American economy afloat. We are all the descendants of immigrants. The United States was founded as a secular democracy, with religious freedom and tolerance, and no official state religion. For proof, read the constitution. Or maybe letters written by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. The best we can hope to do with our evangelical Christian conservative citizens is to make them good citizens, by educating them. It will be a daunting task, with uncooperative students.