If You Hate Politics, You Should Vote Conservative.

Hello world, you can call me Nicodemus.  This is my first blog, so I'm a little new at this, but let me start by addressing the elephant in the room.  I'm a nerd.  Or a geek.  I never really cared much about the supposed difference between the two but apparently some people do.

But yeah, I play Magic:  The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh and have passionate opinions on the Anime series and the four spinoffs on which the latter was based.  I love reading fantasy books and watching fantasy movies and television.  I'm 28 and my favorite show of all time has a target audience of less than half that.  My favorite movie is an Anime.

I am also a conservative.  I believe in the rights to Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  I believe in the Constitution, the free market system, and how they make life better for everyone.

I'm something of a rarity in that way.  Most self-proclaimed geeks/nerds tend to vote liberal, but why is an interesting question.  You see, most of them if asked will say they hate or don't care about politics.  I'm kind of the same way.  I don't care for politics or politicians or the entire political class.  But that is precisely one of the main reasons why I vote conservative and why, if you hate politics, you should too.  Conservatism is all about limiting the power of the government.  The Founding Fathers knew too well what kind of person goes into politics.  The Constitution was written specifically to limit the amount of power those people could accrue.  However, for more than a century progressives have undermined, eroded, changed, and flat out ignored the Constitution in order to gain more power.  Conservatives want to conserve and restore the Constitution.  Conservatives, not moderate or establishment republicans mind you, but the real, true conservatives whom you're always told are evil extremists want to reduce the power of the political class and limit the impact they'll have on our lives.  So why do most geeks vote liberal?  I've already told you.

While part of it is that the conservative movement has done a poor job of reaching out to geek culture (something I'm hoping to change with this blog), the main reason geeks tend to vote liberal is because they don't care about politics.  They simply do not care enough to do the research and learn about the issues or what each candidate stands for.  What they do care about is pop culture.  We geeks live and breathe pop culture.  Unfortunately, however, the pop culture is almost entirely controlled by leftists.  For several decades they've been telling us that conservatives and republicans are evil, racist, sexist, greedy, evil, homophobic, evil, old, white, male, and evil.  So, geeks and nerds alike (still don't care about the difference) vote for the party and policies of big government, big bureaucracy, and big politics simply for being anti-conservative.  The people who claim to hate politics are consistently voting more power, more control, and more influence to the politicians.

There is a reason why I chose "Nicodemus" as my screen name.  Nicodemus was a character from Don Bluth's masterpiece, The Secret of Nimh.  It follows the story of Mrs. Brisby, a scared little mouse on a dangerous quest to save her sick son and seeks help from the rats of the rosebush.  The rats, along with Mrs. Brisby's late husband Jonathan, had escaped from a lab where they were given human level intelligence and have now split into two factions.  Let's call these factions "Conservatives" and "Liberals."  The Liberals are led by the conniving Jenner who wants to continue living parasitically off the farmer, stealing electricity and resources even as it puts their society in jeopardy.

The Conservatives, led by wise Nicodemus, believe they need to leave the farm, produce their own energy, and build a society where they can be independent and self-sufficient.  Perhaps the most profound quote of the film is when Nicodemus says:  "We can no longer live as rats.  We know too much."

Knowledge demands responsibility and action.  If you say you don't care about politics, I both sympathize with and envy you.  I wish I could not care about politics.  I would be much happier if I could just enjoy a story without worrying about the political agenda of its creators, but blissful ignorance is not a luxury I have.  I am too aware of how politics directly affects me and the world around me.  I can no longer live as a rat.  I know too much.

Now for some good news.  As the brilliant Bill Whittle pointed out, story is inherently conservative.  For all the effort leftists put into using the pop culture to spread progressive ideology, unintentional conservative themes continuously show up in liberal productions.  That's why I'm writing this blog.  I want bring these accidental nuggets of conservative wisdom to the light of day so that maybe, just maybe, a few more of my people, be they geek or nerd, will come to realize that the things they love about these stories are in fact conservative ideals, not liberal ones.