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Here are links to the first two pieces:
A Question of Temperament [What makes one a conservative?] First of a Series
To Preserve What We Have- American Conservatism - WSJ article by Bill Buckley
Would love to hear any pro or con critiques of it from those who've been in the trenches on this for the past couple of weeks.
They asked for language, so I gave them what I wanted to hear: "I loathe segregation and racism with everything in me. This loathing is, for me, the starting point of human decency." "He won't do all this," one of them said. "Then he should go down," I said. ...
The senator's many apologies--perhaps more than his original gaffe--have revealed him to be a man who has troubled himself very little with self-examination where race is concerned. And now, in racial crisis, he has no inner anchoring to call on. ...
But the slow march of conservative principles back to mainstream respectability is still so fragile that conservatives themselves must be absolutely innocent of racism. Anything less than this will count as virulent racism and be held against the principles themselves. And if you have associated with Bob Jones University, despite its ban on interracial dating, your racial innocence is a long way from absolute. ...
Conservatives in the civil rights era failed to see themselves in the Negro, failed to imagine themselves into his plight. Had they imagined themselves there, they would have made themselves the measure of the rights blacks should receive. But conservative principles, entrepreneurial in so many ways, lost this opportunity to a lack of imagination. ...
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Bump for the truth.
Steele does not seem to realize that conservatism has never been a worshiper of "democracy" and the Founders feared it and tried to prevent this country from ever becoming a democracy.
The Neo-cons who get most of the media attention in the name of conservatism are big fans of democracy. Democracy is not the friend of freedom historically and the conservatives who failed to support every aspect of every Civil Rights Bill, Goldwater opposed the '64 Bill, supported the goals but not the means because of the extension of central power that they suspected would follow. In my estimation, Goldwater was right.
It's interesting to consider the following in the ongoing discussion of the 1948 American Society and the election of that year. In '48, segregation was Ok in some states, but abortion, illegitamacy, divorce, premarital cohabitation were wrong to just about everyone, everywhere. Now segregation is gone, which is a good thing, but look at all the rot that no politician dares to condemn.
BTW, I worked in Goldwater's campaign but couldn't vote yet. And I'm proud of it. If the country had followed my lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the last 38 years.
Regards.
I stopped here because I'm TIRED of blacks demanding that whites spend their lives sitting around and examining their psyches for traces of racism. I'm actually growing MORE racist the more I feel like blacks are smugly squirming with the delight of the moral superiority they are obviously convinced they have a corner market on. To heck with them. I think I'm just going to go ahead and accept being a racist, because the kind of groveling butt-kisser you have to be in order to convince them that you are a good little whitey is just not worth it.