In brief: 1. The fundamental assumptions of Western civilization are valid. 2. Peaceful social being is preferable to isolation and to war. In consequence, it justly and rightly demands some sacrifice of individual impulse and idiosyncrasy. 3. Hierarchies of competence are desirable and should be promoted. 4. Borders are reasonable. Likewise, limits on immigration are reasonable. Furthermore, it should not be assumed that citizens of societies that have not evolved functional individual-rights predicated polities will hold values in keeping with such polities. 5. People should be paid so that they are able and willing to perform socially useful and desirable duties. 6. Citizens have the inalienable right to benefit from the result of their own honest labor. 7. It is more noble to teach young people about responsibilities than about rights. 8. It is better to do what everyone has always done, unless you have some extraordinarily valid reason to do otherwise. 9. Radical change should be viewed with suspicion, particularly in a time of radical change. 10. The government, local and distal, should leave people to their own devices as much as possible. 11. Intact heterosexual two-parent families constitute the necessary bedrock for a stable polity. 12. We should judge our political system in comparison to other actual political systems and not to hypothetical utopias.
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."-Edmund Burke- 1791
Thou shalt not espouse communism or fascism or progressivism or Marxism or Islamism or Alinskyism or totalitarianism...
Stalinists lie. Always
Plus they are poopyheads
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He’s likely going to be the “voice of a generation”. A classic liberal Christian’s defense of Christianity, conservative values, personal responsibility, Western civilization.
Spoken like an egghead academic who lived a charmed and peaceful childhood followed by a placid adulthood.
Truly a rant grown in an ivory tower, which cannot long survive in the brutal world outside.
It's not that there is no truth anywhere in his words, but that the very foundation from which he proceeds is built upon...not even shifting sand. He founded his thinking upon a frozen lake which will surely melt beneath him.
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