Rick Moran Defends Pro-Slavery, Anti-Women’s Rights Conservatives

9:28 pm EST September 22nd, 2009 | News | 6 Comments

Hey, that’s what I’ve been saying.

For about 150 years, there was no ‘conservative movement’ in America. Instead, there were reactionaries who stood athwart social progress toward ending slavery, granting women’s rights, ending child labor, allowing workers to organize, and the like. Identified more as ‘traditionalists’ or ‘capitalists,’ or Buckley’s ‘individualists,’ it must be said that for a variety of reasons, our ideological ancestors did not cover themselves in glory. But they still served a vital purpose; they usually kept the pace of change from overwhelming the traditions and institutions that make America ‘America,’ allowing change to take place gradually and within the context of a treasured past.

They didn’t “cover themselves in glory” but he acknowledges the role of the backwards crew in restraining the progress of the country.

Super.

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6 Responses to “Rick Moran Defends Pro-Slavery, Anti-Women’s Rights Conservatives”

  1. Indeed says:
    September 22, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    They are who we thought they were–and they agree!

  2. Bitter Scribe says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:25 pm

    Yes, God knows that if you act too quickly to grant people their rights as human beings and stop abusing them, you’ll upset all kinds of “traditions and institutions,” and we mustn’t have that. Keep being speedbumps, conservatives!

  3. Jaim says:
    September 22, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    GOP = racist clowns

  4. jr says:
    September 22, 2009 at 11:25 pm

    Rick Moran’s stealing Thomas DiLorenzo’s gimmick

  5. Felix Helix says:
    September 23, 2009 at 2:37 am

    “allowing change to take place gradually and within the context of a treasured past”

    Oh my. That word “allowing” is so cute. Makes it seem like those “ideological ancestors” weren’t standing in the schoolhouse door so much as saying “Okay, come on in, but single file, please — and don’t forget to wipe your feet!” Thank goodness they were there to keep change gradual, or who knows what might have happened.

    Why, we might have been so overwhelmed that we would have forgotten to properly treasure our past.

  6. Bruce says:
    September 23, 2009 at 11:30 pm

    If America’s cultural and civic stuff is so weak that slavery needed to be extended longer to keep the china from breaking, that’s a country that deserves to be wiped out and rewritten from the start. God damn America indeed.