All the high minded rhetoric and noble posturing is meaningless to a voter who just found out his company is shipping his job to Mexico, or a mother sending her kids to a gang infested public school.
Deeds not words.
THank you for posting this. Contrary to the “dittohead” generation’s ideas there is a body of conservative thought going back over 200 years, and it is important for those of us who say we are conservatives to understand what it really means, and has meant over a long period of time. Sure it’s evolved but most of the core principles remain solid, including one Donald Trump rightfully named - the inseparability of private property and prosperity from freedom. He was criticized for his anwer because it didn’t conform to the talking-point spew that you can hear ever 15 minutes by listening to Hannity but that doesn’t make it incorrect - in fact it is the essence of conservatism to ‘conserve’ resources, and to resist doctrinaire change that would divert them from higher causes.
Russell Kirk is a brilliant scholar, who built on the works of Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Lord Acton, and others who we can still learn much from.
The more I read of what you write and post the more I respect and admire you.
Kindest regards,
Megan
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Kirk's mind and love for the American Constitution's "genius" and "roots" in "order, justice and liberty" were revealed throughout his life. His devotion to the precepts upon which that Constitution was laid was apparent in all he did.
First, we must stand for the real brotherhood of man, which is possible only under the fatherhood of God.That, Mr. Real Estate, is conservatism, not "conserving our money."Second, we must stand for personal freedom, which in essence is the right and duty of moral choice.
Third, we must stand for the Judaeo Christian and classical principle of Justice: to each man the things that are his own by nature.
Fourth, we must stand for charity: the toleration, the mercy, and the giving which are the products of love.
Fifth, we must stand for the wisdom of our ancestors, sound authority and experience, what Edmund Burke called "the bank and capital of the ages."
Sixth, we must stand for variety; for diversity, which includes the right of men and nations to differ, and, as Chesterton put it, of "every potty little man to be his own potty little self." And finally, we must stand for honor and the dignity of man.
No surprise the Cruz worshiping choir think words are more important then deeds. When all your candidate has is words, you are left with nothing else to stand on.
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