Conservatives?

What is it about conservatives like Justice Scalia that cannot accept the reality that today’s world is different from the world of the Founding Fathers.  The writers of the Constitution could never imagine nor anticipate the world as it is today or the country as it exists today.  Forget the fact that the framers of the Constitution were all rich white men and the neither women nor people of color had any input into the legislative process, to expect the Constitution or early Amendments to be totally relevant to today’s world would be like Justice Scalia expecting to fit into pants he wore when he was 2 years or even 10 years old.  The society’s needs during the nation’s infancy or adolescence are totally different than today’s needs or today’s expectations.  Yet, in spite of difference in realities of the times, you hear people like Scalia or TEA Party adherents calling for strict obedience to the Constitution. Do we really want to go back into time before the industrial revolution?  Will the country be better if horseback was once again the primary means of transportation?  Can you imagine no prepared foods, no supermarkets, no modern medicine?  What are the Conservatives saying when they cry to “take our country back”?   Take it back from whom?  Perhaps we should take the country back from the Conservative movement that says one thing but actually does the opposite.  Reagan, a low-tax Conservative not only raised taxes 11 times but actually tripled the deficit while asserting that deficits spending was sound fiscal management on the par of government. Reagan increased the rate of government spending more than any president before or after his terms in office.  The deficit under Bush 43 was larger than the sum of deficits of all preceding Presidents, all the while the Conservative talked about fiscal responsibility.  While singing the praise of supply-side/trickle-down economics income and wealth inequality are greater today than at any other time in the Nation’s history.  The country spends more on defense than the next fifteen countries combined while each year, more citizens die within the country’s borders than the total of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.  Conservatives need to stop taking about solutions and start implementing solutions.  Problems this country faces will not be solved by filibuster. Conservatives need to demonstrate that it is possible for the right to be competent rather than taking 33 separate votes on a single issue and still fail to attain the objective of these 33 votes.  We don’t need smaller government...we need COMPETENT government and no one speaking in behalf of Conservatives has demonstrated the ability to govern competently.