David Brooks and Nicholas Kristof

Both NY Times columnists wrote great pieces regarding the Presidential election. I suggest you take a look at them.

In short, they argued that the election was not one of reliousity versus atheism. It is about communicating your message and the extremist shifts of the parties.

As a conservative (self-proclaimed) libertarian, the Liberal elite problems I see are:

- Liberals view conservatives as ignorant (major issue)
- Liberals are looking to make people less religious (because religious people are ignorant)
- The judicial branch of government must usurp the democratic authority of the people when they are being too ignorant
- People only vote with their pocket books or their values (conservatives only vote with their pocket books and liberals only vote with higher principles in mind)
- Liberals are progressive; the correlary, of course, is that conservatives are regressive.

Europe is even worse the the Liberal elite. This is becuase they have graduated from Liberalism to Socialism. Conservative Americans view this as very dangerous. The further left Europe moves, the more totalitarian it becomes. We conservatives don't want totalitarianism. We fought it for 40 years against the Bolsheviks in Russia. Communism is evil. Those who disagree are most likely the "enlightened liberals," who secretly pine for complete totalitarianism here at home.