Conservatism Now Means Defeating the Establishment.. Kurt Schlichter

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Conservatism Now Means Defeating the Establishment
Kurt Schlichter October 19, 2020

Look around you at the smoldering ruins of American society, and it’s clear that you owe our garbage Establishment nothing.

Not loyalty.

Not respect.

Not obedience.

Nothing.

It has failed you. And now it is dead to you.

Tear it all down.

Rip out its rotten foundations.

Burn the poisonous debris.

Rebuild it on a foundation of the Constitution.

There was once a social contract out there that we all thought we all signed on to. You know the outlines of the implicit deal. We agreed to give up certain prerogatives and to provide prestige and prosperity to those people – who became the Establishment – who would run our institutions for us. For example, we outsourced our right to avenge ourselves to the justice system and (except for immediate self-defense) to keep order to the police. We would respect and trust the objective, neutral truthtellers, called “journalists,” who would gather and disseminate the news and information we needed to be active citizens. And, in a formal way under our Constitution, we agreed to give government officials enumerated powers and to be bound by the rules implemented via due process and limited by the Bill of Rights.

It was imperfect, as all human endeavors are, but on the whole it worked.

Until now.

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[Fishrrman]

"Conservatism" often isn't about conservative values any more.

We have a few so-called "conservatives" on this board who do little more than to tell the rest of us how "conservative" they are, and yet withhold any support from the current administration. And have little else to say, except... tout their "conservatism". They are interested in ideology, not practical results.

I prefer the moniker of "traditional-minded" American -- to include "old values" based upon the precepts of European/Christian Western Civilization.

That is what we need to defend.

[Absalom]

"Conservatism" often isn't about conservative values any more.
We have a few so-called "conservatives" on this board who do little more than to tell the rest of us how "conservative" they are, and yet withhold any support from the current administration. And have little else to say, except... tout their "conservatism". They are interested in ideology, not practical results.
I prefer the moniker of "traditional-minded" American -- to include "old values" based upon the precepts of European/Christian Western Civilization.
That is what we need to defend.

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Intuitive.
Conservatism is a body of enduring Principles governing human conduct involving
attitudes, behaviors, impulses and sentiments concerning human nature, which has 
nothing to do w/ economics, ideology, politics and religion. N-O-T-H-I-N-G!!!!!
Those who insist otherwise get their "history" from comic books!!!!