"fundamental mission maintaining an open society susceptible to the fluidity, the dynamism of a market society" is/was what the Tea Parties were about in aims like less taxes, smaller government, more liberty.
"fundamental mission maintaining an open society susceptible to the fluidity, the dynamism of a market society" is/was what the Tea Parties were about in aims like less taxes, smaller government, more liberty.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
It has been a long time since he said anything interesting or relative.
I am tired of everyone fighting with each other. This is all by design.
I agree, he's gone TDS in his never-Trumpism. But how has he betrayed conservatism? Is conservatism an ideology?
According to What Is Conservatism?:
...With this view of man’s nature, Goldwater says, it is understandable why “the Conservative looks upon politics as the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.” The conservative is the first to understand that “the practice of freedom requires the establishment of order.” It is impossible for one man to be free if another is able to deny him the exercise of his freedom.
But the conservative also recognizes that the political power on which order is based is a self-aggrandizing force; that its appetite grows with each feeding. “He knows,” says Goldwater, “that the utmost vigilance and care are required to keep political power within its proper bounds.”
I end my definition of conservatism with an excerpt from Buckley’s Up from Liberalism, in which he lauds the conservative alternative based on “freedom, individuality, the sense of community, the sanctity of the family, the supremacy of the conscience, the spiritual view of life.” In just 21 words, Buckley provides a neat summation of conservatism’s first principles.
Conservatism is a philosophy, not an ideology....
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
Not against the argument privacy rights are derived from more fundamental rights. Said important but didn't seem enthusiastic.
In the minute or so leading uo to that point in the video he discusses Lincoln's rejection of Douglas's belief in allowing the popular vote to decide the slavery issue in each new state.
Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire. ― Gustav Mahler
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Cutesy Time is OVER