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A Peculiar People: Crunchy Cons
Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^
| March 7, 2006
| Charles Colson
Posted on 03/07/2006 6:08:18 AM PST by Mr. Silverback
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I'm not a crunchy con (I wouldn't be caught dead in Birkenstocks) but I do share some of their values. For years my wife stayed home with the kids, now I do it while she does nursing, and I do some writing on a part-time basis.
Home schooled kids will be running the country in 20 years. Count on it.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:09:58 AM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
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To: Mr. Silverback
Interesting post!
I know people like this through Church connections. The ones I know aren't hard-core conservatives--for example, welfare doesn't frost their buns nearly as badly as it does mine--but they do believe in giving generously, and don't believe in giving away other people's money. Similarly, they believe in being "good stewards" of the planet, but they don't go in for Greenpeace. They don't believe in adultery, but they also don't believe in stoning. "Conservatives in birks" is not a bad description of these folks.
Disclaimer: I own a pair of cork sandals, but they aren't birks. I don't wear them, though, because sandals seem to promote stinky feet like crazy.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:13:48 AM PST
by
Shalom Israel
(There's a reason cows ain't extinct.)
To: Mr. Silverback
>>>>a society dedicated to the multiplication of wants and the intensification of desire, not the improvement of character.
Go three days living off the land with a spear and sleeping with a bear skin rug. Then come and tell me how much it improves your character. Crunchy Cons should immediately have their Cell Phones confiscated, their HBO unplugged and get made to go out in nature and practice what they breach.
"Birkenstock Burkeans" my rear end. PJ O'Rourke had a more accurate sobriquet. "Birkenstock Bolsheviks."
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:15:48 AM PST
by
.cnI redruM
(Spreading liberal beliefs is as wrong as spreading AIDS.)
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:15:57 AM PST
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: Mr. Silverback
There are many ways to reject mass-market, no-brain popular culture.
See you at the chamber music recital...
To: Mr. Silverback
"...if youre like me, youd probably think, well, there goes a lefty, or a liberal, or maybe an aging hippie.."
I guess I'm not like him.
Actually, I'd be resisting the urge to punch that hippy filth in the face as hard as I could. That kind of dicispline requires alot of concentration, and would be all I was thinking about.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:26:28 AM PST
by
Gefreiter
("Are you drinking 1% because you think you're fat?")
To: Mr. Silverback
This is new? How do they differ from the Mennonites or Apostolic Christians? And then you have the Amish, who have them all beat when it comes to working with nature and being self sufficient.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:26:46 AM PST
by
TruthBeforeAll
(NAZI-ism: A belief that human perfection is as easy to achieve as mechanical perfection.)
To: Mr. Silverback
To: .cnI redruM
Crunchy Cons should immediately have their Cell Phones confiscated, their HBO unplugged and get made to go out in nature and practice what they breach. What makes you think these people have HBO?
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:30:08 AM PST
by
Sloth
(Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
To: Mr. Silverback
I'm seeing the rise of the Limbaugh Babies now! And loving every minute of it. My out-of-college kids are probably a little more conservative than my hubby and I.....and that's going some!
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:40:45 AM PST
by
trimom
To: Mr. Silverback
Ahh, you ought to try Birkenstocks! They are really, REALLY comfortable! I'm not in that guy's book, but my family could be. Been home schooling for 16 years, we make do or do without. My kids are old enough to appreciate their upbringing and have thanked us for it.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:41:03 AM PST
by
Vor Lady
(Mal, "Remember, we just want to scare him." Jayne, "Pain is scarey!")
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:44:46 AM PST
by
Vor Lady
(Mal, "Remember, we just want to scare him." Jayne, "Pain is scary!")
To: Shalom Israel
My wife and I fit the description of "crunchy cons," and I guarantee you that we are *at least* as conservative as you or anyone on the list. As with any ideology, there are degrees of difference -- I'm sure you're right about the people you know, I just didn't want you to think that we are all conservative-light.
To: austinrepub
'm sure you're right about the people you know, I just didn't want you to think that we are all conservative-light. I second that...conservation is conservative.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:50:09 AM PST
by
GreenFreeper
(Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress)
To: Mr. Silverback
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:51:37 AM PST
by
VOA
To: Mr. Silverback
gun-loving organic farmers, and right-wing nature lovers.
You rang? LOL!
Please add me to your ping list, Mr. Silverback. :)
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:52:33 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Mr. Silverback
There is absolutely nothing inherently contradictory about being a "right wing nature lover." Don't a lot of right wingers live in the countryside?
Some schools of conservatism (such as the European kind) have always had a deep distrust of "alienation from nature." Unfortunately, they also tend to interpet such alienation as Jewish (some idiots even claim that Jews have never practiced agriculture).
It always burns my biscuits when conservatives imply that nature is "the enemy" and that only man was created by G-d. Who created nature . . . the Devil?
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:53:43 AM PST
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Zakhor 'et 'asher-`asah lekha `Amaleq baderekh betzei'tkhem miMitzrayim.)
To: Shalom Israel
"Conservatives in birks"I resemble that remark! ;o)
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:56:02 AM PST
by
SuziQ
To: austinrepub
My wife and I fit the description of "crunchy cons," and I guarantee you that we are *at least* as conservative as you or anyone on the list. I believe you. I was only referring to those acquaintances of mine; they're conservative enough to disapprove of welfare queens, but they're rather bemused at how spitting angry I can get about such things.
I just didn't want you to think that we are all conservative-light.
Fair enough. I think the religious angle plays an important role. It seems to make them reluctant to take the revolutionary viewpoint, even though it's also what makes them disapprove of the status quo.
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posted on
03/07/2006 6:59:27 AM PST
by
Shalom Israel
(There's a reason cows ain't extinct.)
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