It is all well and good to wave your pom poms...but when you set them dowm for a moment, you might read
this to better understand the roots of the cynicism of what you call "d-bag cynical old grizzled FReepers",---who might rightly be called veterans of the ideology wars and perhaps laugh when they hear the petulant rantings of a 20 something year old who most likely never even heard of Russell Kirk, much less read him.