Thanks for the tip. Hope I can find the time to check that out. I know folks like this have been around an awfully long time, and there are surely some cut from the same bolt of wholesale cloth at the other end of the political divide. They just don't have the upper hand in the attention market, and are a less homogenous group I believe,…
Thanks for the tip. Hope I can find the time to check that out. I know folks like this have been around an awfully long time, and there are surely some cut from the same bolt of wholesale cloth at the other end of the political divide. They just don't have the upper hand in the attention market, and are a less homogenous group I believe, which thwarts - at least for now - their ability to coalesce into an effective power structure.
I suppose part of what I was trying to say is that although I'm aware that a lot of folks, myself among them, have been to some extent hoodwinked as to what conservatism was or had the potential to become, at least when the Bushes or Regan or Ford or even Nixon held power, I didn't go to bed at night wondering if I would awaken the next day to discover that the country that I love was no longer the country that I love because the "conservative values" they, and the party they led, held at the time had authored its destruction. And I doubt if many rank-and-file Republicans of those days would have taken kindly to any of these men or their contemporary party luminaries singing the praises of the likes of any of the Victor Orbans around at that time.
When I said what I did about the Right, I said it meaning that at least for most of my lifetime, that distinct entity in the body politic, despite any of its sundry shortcomings on other issues, had at least seemed to believe in what I called the American Spirit and the terms I used to define that. That they have now cast even that into the sewer in the pursuit of power is the rankest of betrayals. And if they become successful in this enterprise, the only comfort I will take is that for many of my countrymen with whom I used to feel a common bond based on that spirit, I have no doubt that they will awaken one day to discover that, to paraphrase a line JFK once spoke, the fruits of their victory will be ashes in their mouths.
Thanks for the tip. Hope I can find the time to check that out. I know folks like this have been around an awfully long time, and there are surely some cut from the same bolt of wholesale cloth at the other end of the political divide. They just don't have the upper hand in the attention market, and are a less homogenous group I believe, which thwarts - at least for now - their ability to coalesce into an effective power structure.
I suppose part of what I was trying to say is that although I'm aware that a lot of folks, myself among them, have been to some extent hoodwinked as to what conservatism was or had the potential to become, at least when the Bushes or Regan or Ford or even Nixon held power, I didn't go to bed at night wondering if I would awaken the next day to discover that the country that I love was no longer the country that I love because the "conservative values" they, and the party they led, held at the time had authored its destruction. And I doubt if many rank-and-file Republicans of those days would have taken kindly to any of these men or their contemporary party luminaries singing the praises of the likes of any of the Victor Orbans around at that time.
When I said what I did about the Right, I said it meaning that at least for most of my lifetime, that distinct entity in the body politic, despite any of its sundry shortcomings on other issues, had at least seemed to believe in what I called the American Spirit and the terms I used to define that. That they have now cast even that into the sewer in the pursuit of power is the rankest of betrayals. And if they become successful in this enterprise, the only comfort I will take is that for many of my countrymen with whom I used to feel a common bond based on that spirit, I have no doubt that they will awaken one day to discover that, to paraphrase a line JFK once spoke, the fruits of their victory will be ashes in their mouths.
Always good to be on the same page about existing, eh?
100%!