What’s that line? Never try to make someone understand something if their job depends on them not understanding it? That’s how I feel about conservatives like Bill Kristol and Nick Lowry, who want to lead the way out of the wilderness for conservatives. Their magazine revenues may depend on it. But a real conservative intellectual would look around and question why they have wasted their time on conservatism in the first place. The failure of Reagan-Bushism has been total. What didn’t fail in practice, failed because human nature refused to put it in practice. So, why not try a new line?
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PLEASE!!! don’t encourage new thinking. We have seen what their thinking has resulted in– Let’s keep them thinking the same way. There is a long winding trail in the wilderness for them all to wander and we just might have a chance to make this a better world!!!!!
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Iraqs parliament votes next. Our congress gets to watch. Will Obama change his timeline to match the Maliki-Bush deal?
Yes.
It’s the Palinism. She/he who memorizes the lines best, mastigates them, anagrams them, inserts them into the Bible wins. That’s where the prize is. Every time you expect a drop of curiosity or intellectual evolution you will surely be rewarded by the thud of a load of conservative word turds dropped on your head.
American Conservatism was born of the need to disenfranchise people at the margins of our society and to hide the true intentions of the so called Conservatives by dopting economic programs like Supply Side economics,strict constructionism in interpreting the Constitution etc.
Nixon’s Southern Strategy adopted after the 1964 Civil Rights Act was to forestall any great movements by African Americans to seek office in the legislative and Judicial branches.That metamorphosed into the Reagan revolution that aggressively sought to limit voting by African Americans and other minorities.In the Bush era,of course, this program reached its nadir by outright fraud at the polling stations.
In recent years, the marriage of convenience between the originl WASP conservatives like Buckley and the new Jewish conservatives like Kristol had nothing at all to do with economic doctrines.They were htched to benefit Israel which, by any definition, is a socialist country,something Kristol and his merry followers hide quite effectively.
So,yes,American Conservatism has been and remains a fraud at many levels.
Is this where the doctrine of plausible deniability came from?