This not-so-veiled article was another lame attempt to castigate and separate social conservatives from conservatism in general. Abortion, legalized drugs, gay marriage, etc? Just accept it in order to keep power, right?
The truly brain-dead conservatives are those who think liberty can exist in a morally bankrupt society. You gotta have both liberty and individual morality.
Some of the so-called conservative/libertarian (RINO) intellectuals are as removed from reality as the ivory tower leftists.
“The truly brain-dead conservatives are those who think liberty can exist in a morally bankrupt society. You gotta have both liberty and individual morality.”
MAN, ICOULD NOT AGREE WITH YOU MORE !
The truly brain-dead conservatives are those who think liberty can exist in a morally bankrupt society. You gotta have both liberty and individual morality. Some of the so-called conservative/libertarian (RINO) intellectuals are as removed from reality as the ivory tower leftists.
Exactly correct. Libertarianism, and especially the CATO Institute, are about as misguided and sick as Cass Sunstein and Barbara Boxer (and that is being kind to them).
Whether this article is a mole to intentionally emasculate conservatism, or is simply obtuse, one cannot know. I always wondered the same about GWB, claiming conservatism, was he really that obtuse?
But conservatism is NOT Libertarianism, it is rather responsibility, and willingness to assume such, by the individual citizen; hardly libertarianism.
We need a third or more party(s) to declare this publicly (Republicans refuse to), but Libertarianism is, like you say, as sinister as the LEFT in general.
Johnny Suntrade
John Adams:
“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
Freedom, liberty cannot exist in an immoral society.
It is also what allows true capitalism to exist providing value for value in honest trade.