[8mmMauser]

He knew they wouldn't understand him and never worried his head about it. He wrote for himself and for anyone who cared to listen. I recall him reflecting that it was like speaking into the void; but every now and then you hear your own words and thoughts come echoing back to you, and know that you've been heard. It's a very pleasing feeling.

That sometimes happens here. Sometimes we post as if into a void, and are happily surprised with the feedback or with a repetition elsewhere.

[T'wit]

>> That sometimes happens here.

It does, it does! Conservatives offer a whole political philosophy. It is good to restate the ideas and principles of the "founders," be it Burke or Jefferson or Adam Smith or Locke or -- there are so many more. Russell Kirk used to say, "We stand on the shoulders of giants." We should always be learning from them. I don't think Russell meant it this way, but you also have a better view of the world when you're on a giant's shoulders :-) Tell those below what you see.