[PhatHead]

I’m not sure what part of “the conservative model” requires passive acquiescence to all affronts. That has never been part of my model, and I don’t know of any other conservatives who live by that model.

[Oceander]

"I’m not sure what part of “the conservative model” requires passive acquiescence to all affronts. That has never been part of my model, and I don’t know of any other conservatives who live by that model."

Nothing requires it, but it's been a part and parcel of the actual behaviour of conservatives (and, quite frankly, most non-liberals) since at least the 50s. Read Wm. F. Buckley, Jr.'s book God and Man at Yale, published in 1951, and you will see in embryo most of the liberal, neo-fascist doctrines and policies that are being forced down our throats today.

The same things were going on even then - good people ignoring what was going on in their childrens' educations, and ignoring transparently political biases in media, and on and on.