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To: arthurus
Thats not an easy read.

It ends with:

... Culturally, America is so distant from the 1980s, when the movement of conservatism hit its stride, we may as well be on an alien planet. The left has transformed America in every conceivable way while conservatism acquiesced to every innovation. The solution, of course, is to accept that there is nothing left to conserve and therefore conservatism is as relevant as Whiggism. Interesting as a means of understanding how we have arrived at this dismal state, but otherwise it is something that belongs in the museum of failed political movements. For dissidents, it is a warning about the wages of accommodating the original sins of progressivism.

So are we still Conservatives? Am I an ideologue anymore? I don't know.

5 posted on 06/14/2022 8:33:19 AM PDT by corkoman
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To: corkoman
Russell Kirk argued that conservatism should not be an ideology. Conservatives were better served by identifying a set of principles to stand for and then acting accordingly.

His list is on the interwebs. He was a fierce opponent of both libertarianism and neoconservatism which he saw as false ideologies.

7 posted on 06/14/2022 8:46:24 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: corkoman

This whole piece was is horrible, including the grammar.


12 posted on 06/14/2022 8:55:26 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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