Most so-called conservative intellectuals hate the base. We know who those treacherous snakes are. We don’t need them anymore. What we want is not complicated.
I suggest these videos below. I greatly admire Bill Whittle, I believe he is one of the most rational, thoughtful, and even entertaining carriers of the Conservative Torch in our country today. These short videos (about ten minutes each) break down various key aspects of Conservatism, and I believe he does a damned good job of distilling it down:
Bill Whittle's Seven Part Series: What We Believe
Part 1: Small Government and Free Enterprise
Victor Davis Hanson is hanging in there. Where he is gone, I’m not sure who is going to fill his shoes.
As a great philosopher once said, “that’s just sad”!
However, the first mistake for anyone these days, is reading the National Review. They are part of the deep state and support the deep state deeply.
The underpinnings? How about we don’t over think it and follow the US Constitution to the letter.
Bookmark.
Intellectuals are the new “experts”. They know everything and they are beyond questioning.
A lot of “intellectuals” come from the Ivy Leagues. That’s a problem.
A lot of “intellectuals” accept false premises related to Marxism, sexual matters, and anti-religion/anti-western civilization views. That’s a problem.
A lot of “intellectuals” have realized that they can make more money from podcasts or Youtube videos. That means they need to churn out “content” on almost a daily basis. Which means it’s all diluted and they aren’t really spending time researching or thinking about anything deep. That’s a problem.
As someone already pointed out, Victor Davis Hanson is the real deal. He is non-Ivy League, he values the Western tradition, he writes real books.
There may be others out there. But probably 99% of the “intellectuals” today are simply glib people who speak well and who say what they are expected to say. There isn’t much real thinking involved.
Goodbye Cal.
I’m still here.
Cal Thomas apparently has missed the fact that 99.9% of the population today has the attention span of a gnat, about 2 seconds.
Takes a lot of time to read anything of substance and the attitude these days is “who got time fo dat?”
Who wants to be an intellectual nowadays? It’s racist!
The education system wants to make sure nobody grows up to be an intellectual. When everybody grows up all ignorant and dumb, then the democrats will know they’ve achieved their goals. Everybody equal, nobody a leader, nobody rich, nobody owning businesses, nobody successful. Haiti and Cuba and Venezuela and N. Korea will be our nations’ role models. But, there will still be a few required to keep the nation free of intellectuals, and they’ll be the big brother that the country always feared would come.
The Foxnews All Star Panel?
Bill Kristol
George Will
Charles Krauthammer
Mara Liasson
Mort Kondrake
Those turds?
You weren’t invited?
This concern is ironically an academic irrelevance.
Once we’re done exchanging blows, perhaps the time will come where we can indulge in perfecting an already sound society.
I suspect there are plenty of them, but they do not fall within the purview of the MSM. Come to think of it, there are a good many six-year-olds with a keener intellect than the entire inner DC beltway combined.
... The Reagan administration may have been the last one to challenge Americans to think for themselves...
Apparently the writer never attended a TRUMP rally or listened to or read PRESIDENT TRUMP’s speeches.
1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
7 Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire: your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
8 And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
21 How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
22 Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water:
23 Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
24 Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:
25 And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:
26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
27 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.
28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together, and they that forsake the LORD shall be consumed.
29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.
30 For ye shall be as an oak whose leaf fadeth, and as a garden that hath no water.
31 And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
SLIP OVER TO ISAIAH 3:1-5;
Chapter 3
1 For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,
2 The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.
5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
Skip down to vs 16-24
16 Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
17 Therefore the Lord will smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Zion, and the LORD will discover their secret parts.
18 In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,
19 The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
20 The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,
21 The rings, and nose jewels,
22 The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins, 23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.
Stop and meditate on who we are NOW, what we have become and why . . . . we allowed it
There are more than a few born again Congressman that cannot speak the words as a sermon and are somewhat limited in what they can do.
THEY NEED OUR PAYERS
Mea maxima culpa
Cal Thomas would do himself a favor if he spent some time reading Sundance (@TheConservativeTreehouse), Darren Beatty (@Revolver.news), Julie Kelley (everywhere you can find her), Molly Hemmingway (@TheFederalist). Perhaps not the style that Thomas is keen for, but the research and analysis those folks provide can’t be beat. And I didn’t even mention Steve Bannon and his entire cadre of hard-hitting reporters.