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Carl Mumpower  
By Carl Mumpower

Conservatives delight in the clarifying lessons of nature. There are no rights in nature, only responsibilities. Nature provides boundless opportunities, but offers no assurances on outcomes. Nature teaches us that reality is a tough friend, and that we ignore her to our own peril.

It’s ironic that liberalism is mostly antagonistic to nature. Enthusiasm for organic gardening and the environment while ignoring nature’s deeper truths is posturing. Liberal dedications to entitlements, something for nothing, responsibility avoidance, and robbing their fellow man in the name of government poisons our culture as surely as fossil fuels poison our air.

Conservatives, real ones, recognize the important difference in harvesting and pillaging, producing and consuming, loving and enabling, earning and taking. Liberals on the other hand delight in wearing a big nature badge while they ignore everything she has to say. One thing she says is that life owes us nothing and we get what we earn — period.