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.
They are who we thought they were–and they agree!
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!
GOP = racist clowns
Rick Moran’s stealing Thomas DiLorenzo’s gimmick
“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.
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.