What do we old "Tea Party" Conservatives want?

Recently, in my city, a shopper came upon a young mother, breast feeding her infant child, while inside a store. Outraged, the shopper stormed to the front of the store and angrily complained to the manager.

What have we become? Is that most basic, most natural, most gentle act in all of human endeavor now outrageous? That infant's tiny stomach must become empty much more frequently than yours or mine. What is it to do when it feels hunger pangs? What is that mother to do? Ignore her child's discomfort in favor of the warped sensibilities of some uncaring shopper?

When I tell young people that I never removed the keys from my car, indeed never locked my car, until  I was nearly 40 years of age; or that our family's home during my entire youth, never had a lock on a door, they stare in disbelief.


With a little thought, I could fill pages with facts from my youth... facts that seem implausible in today's America.

We old Conservatives are not religious nuts. We do not want to see women return to a wash tub and scrub board to do laundry. We do not want our kids to walk to school in bare feet and home made shirts, as we did. We do not want them, or us, to give up our TV, cell phone, or any of the other technical marvels enjoyed today. We long only for a return to the attitudes, the integrity, the honesty of years past.

You don't have to go back many decades to see differences. Remember, President Kennedy said "Ask not what your country can do for you...". Compare that with today's government that wants to do everything for people, and a population that expects it from them.

We seniors have lived through happy times when people had pride, self-respect, discipline, honesty... when people understood, cared and could be trusted. We wish, oh God how we wish we could help America's youth experience those times again!