Conservative Principles Never Require You to Submit to Tyranny.. Kurt Schlichter

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Conservative Principles Never Require You to Submit to Tyranny
Kurt Schlichter

Posted: Jun 25, 2020 12:01 AM

There’s a basic rule that far too many conservatives ignore: if some alleged conservative principle makes you less free, then it’s not a good conservative principle and you should toss it in the trash. After all, principles are merely shorthand for the best practices of a just society. When some alleged principle helps leftists enserf-ify you, then it’s a pretty Schiffy principle, isn’t it?

Weaponizing principles is one of the left’s favorite tactics, and it’s right out of Alinsky 101. Rule for Radical No. 4 is "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." And it works really well, right up until the moment that you stop playing by the rules that the left is trying to jam down your throat.

Now, the objection to my view – offered in good faith by good faith conservatives (you old softies) and in bad faith by the cruise-shilling Fredocon hacks who make common cause with our enemies – is that this kind of wokeness makes one unprincipled. It doesn’t. Those of us who see what’s happening and refuse to go full lemming – never go full lemming – are not abandoning conservative principles. We’re just not trying to hold onto the alleged principles that have abandoned us.

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https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2020/06/25/conservative-principles-never-require-you-to-submit-to-tyranny-n2571207

[Cyber Liberty]

FTA:

Of course, we have not stood for this double standard, and many social media cons took a break from following Jesse Kelly’s admonition to #CancelYale – Elihu Yale built Yale on the skulls and bones of slaves – to demand Kimmel’s ritual defenestration. We were then informed that demanding cancellation is not what conservatives do.

Kurt puts his finger on something that's been bugging me, and why I react the way I do when somebody says we aren't being "conservative" by wanting to, say, make Abortion illegal.  "That's not 'conservative!'  It's not what Jack Kemp would do!!"

[roamer_1]

What an incoherent pile of crap.

edit: Speaking of the article... not Cyber's post above mine.

[Cyber Liberty]

edit: Speaking of the article... not Cyber's post above mine.