About
The Conservative Monitor has been on the web since 1997. We have had many permutations, not all of them pretty (see one of my first commentaries on the Kyoto Treaty). You are looking at the latest, stripped-down version.
Our mission is to educate and explain. We try not to be too shrill, but sometimes when the crowded theater is burning someone has to shout, “FIRE – Run for your lives!”
I am the founder and current publisher, W.J. Rayment. My original idea was to create a clearing house for news and views. The website is also the house organ for the Conservative Bookstore. The site has performed this function admirably.
There has been considerable effort not to merely rehash the same old information that is delivered wholesale and retail over the airwaves and in other areas of the web. My aim has been, and continues to be, to focus on the cultural angle. We do book reviews, social commentaries, and handle the occasional death threat. Of course, I do feel compelled to discuss current issues as they become pressing.
Thanks for your interest.
W.J. Rayment
February 14th, 2010 at 6:51 pm
Hello! Your website is interesting, and although I am not a conservative, you make some valid points. I am liberal, but not left-wing.The two are not the same.
But as bad as left-wing totalitarianism is, tyranny of the right-wing kind is no better.
I am no admirer of Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.
They are tyrnats, no doubt about it.
Communism has proved to be catastrophic for Russia,China, Cuba,and North Korea.
Communism is the worst,most inefficient and unproductive economic system in world history.
It provided for general misery for people while a handful of party bigwigs had all sorts of priveleges.
Capitalism is infinitely preferable, but it is not without problems of its own. Unfettered free-market capitalism enables a small number of people to become wealthy but creates too much inequality of money and resources.
There has to be a safety net for the unfortunate. But unfortunately, too many conservatives delude themselves into thinking that if we merely reduce taxes as much as possible,deregulate business to the point where it is free to exploit and harm the public and despoil the environment with impunity, and eliminate help for the unfortunate, whether those who are poor, or those who were not but have fallen on hard times, general prosperity will increase.
Too many people would fall through the cracks and be helpless. Too many Americans are already struggling to stay afloat.
But too many conservatives would like to weaken or destroy the already inadequate safety net which exists in our great nation.
This would have catastrophic results.
Also,many conservatives delude themselves into thinking that it is entirely the job of charities and the private sector to provide for those in need, conveniently ignoring the fact that these can only do so much. They cannot possibly provide for all thos ein need.
President Obama, for all his faults, is not the kind of dire threat to freedom and prosperity in America which conservatives have made him out to be.
Contrary to popular belief, he is not even a true left-wing socialist,Marxist and communist, and ironically the REAL left in America soes not even consider him one of theirs, because he is too conservative for them.
In fact, there is infinitely greater threat to America from right-wing extremist politicians allied with the religious right than from the Obama administration, imperfect as it is.
I am fearful that in the wake of the Backlash against Obama, a right-wing extremist demagogue will emerge when the next election comes around in 2112. He or she will seduce gullive conservatives with seductive rhetoric about “taking America back”, and preserving our “freedom” etc, and all that inflammatory right-wing extremist rhetoric.
If this individual is elected, I fear for this nation. Respectfully, Robert Berger, New Rochelle,NY.