Really, there are many, many different types of conservatives in America.
The pro-military defend freedom type, the Christian Conservative, the Capitalist pro-business anti-communist type, the Libertarians, etc. etc.
But there are two types that stand out to me.
The obvious ones that stand out in 2025 in America, the ones that shout the loudest, the Trump crazies
Who are really just people who are hurt really, really bad, and don't know what to do with it.
And then there is the type of Conservative that a lot of people probably assume don't exist anymore.
Which is the kind of person that probably about half of my friends- indeed probably half of the people around me- are.
Quite possibly including more than half of my friends.
And that's the down-home, Andy Griffith Mayberry, Y'all come back now homey goodness kind of conservative.
Here where I live in Sacramento, about half of the people you will meet will be like this.
A fair number of the rest are a Liberal equivalent, still lovers of down home goodness.
Really, it is not that hard to find, in most people, a lover of this ideal.
Sacramento is small enough, compared to the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, to make us believe that this is a reachable ideal.
And despite what we see on television, the vast number of Conservatives that I have met are like this.
I just wanted to spread the word.
There are a lot of people like that still in America, and a fair number of their Liberal counterparts. You're reading the words of a Liberal lover of down-home goodness right now, and I can see a lot of reasons to believe that this is still a reachable ideal.
Just none of the reasons are on the corporate media right now.
Because they don't make for the loud headlines that shout.
And this is my loving tribute to this side of Conservative America, one of my favorite things about America.
Y'all come back now!
God loves you! Don't loose hope in America! There's lots of reasons to hope! Because I can see how good most of you are, on both sides of the divide!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson
P.S. And those who are in such pain? Healing will come. The pain will go away. Hopefully I have helped a little.