Conservative Presidents of US
USA has never had so conservative President as the one they had then.
We use the word "Conservative" interchangeably with "Republican" as we do "Liberal" and "Democrat". In the past fifty years, they have had six Republican Presidents and some of them were more conservative than others. They were Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, Regan, Bush and Uncle Sam. They've had five Democrats: Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter and Clinton.
Even though they almost always associate the word "liberal" with Democrats and "conservative" with Republicans, the words have so many nuances of meaning that this doesn't always work. You'd think that a conservationist would be conservative, but most conservationists are liberal. Under conservationist, the dictionary says: "One who practices or advocates conservation of natural resources" The ultra-conservationist President is the last person to fit that definition. Like most conservatives, he believes they should use all the world's natural resources freely now because there’s more where they came from. If that proves false, conservative believe they’ll find substitutes or ways to do without certain resources. This is not only a position that can be defended but it's also a more attractive philosophy than the Spartan Liberal Conservationist belief that we have to reduce our consumption of natural resources or we'll ruin the Earth.
President Bush proposed what he called a plan for preventing forest fires by letting lumber companies cut down more trees. He said clearing some of the forests will mean fewer fires. This is comparable to killing every other baby at birth to reduce death from starvation.
For the democrats have been the puppet masters of the modern America though they have been so explicitly involved with their own private affairs that when it were made public that shunned their image as an honourable leader. John .F. Kennedy was more popular for his affair with Marilyn Monroe than his alliance for progress. As for Bill Clinton he was more on search engine like penthub.com than in his Oval Office.
Most of us have our own political opinions and they are seldom formed free from consideration of our own personal or financial interests. For this reason, it's a mystery why so many working people are conservative and enthusiastic supporters of President who's best friends with their bosses. George W. Bush, the most aggressive pro-big business president they've ever had, got a lot of votes from people who work with their hands for big corporations at an hourly wage. It's hard to understand.
Liberals had a hard time understanding the popularity of so conservative a president and his conservative Cabinet members.
Many Bush appointees seemed to liberals to have contempt for civil liberties. The Bush administration operated on the theory that the American public would be better off not knowing the details of everything its government did. This was why Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld allowed so little information to come out of Afghanistan regarding our troops' activities there.
I have the uneasy feeling that a great many Americans- The majority- agree with the conservative, secretive, pro-business philosophy of this administration. I accept it, but I'm puzzled.