We've been talking about conservatives and tradition lately. In the course of
writing about Chinese ideology, this author charges that American conservatives may talk about protecting tradition, but they haven't actually done it.
Look hard at the West’s politics. And if you are a “conservative”, resist the urge to gloat that your kind was right all along. Because your kind were useful idiots just as thoroughly as Western “liberals” have been. You were incompetent at propaganda, fixated on silly irrelevancies like who was putting tab A in sexual slot B, and addled by religious particularism. You destroyed your own credibility with Chicken-Little ranting over porn, rock music, and games. Thus, when the Gramscians did their long march through academia and the media and Hollywood, you saw the danger well enough but you failed to stop them.
You conservatives had just one duty that mattered: to conserve, to be Western civilization’s antibodies – and you blew it. The wages of that failure is that the U.S. has a sitting President who spews Marxist propaganda tropes as though they were the laws of nature, and neither he nor far too many Westerners can any longer tell the difference.
Do you agree?
In a purely argumentative view point of his claim, I do agree. The stated goals of the conservative party were to maintain the tradition of civil political discourse and it's now gotten to the point that a National Debate is started with a question of the candidate's dating history. From this man's point of view, conservatives have become too focused on personal matters when it comes to candidates - such as marriages, religious compliance, etc. - and not enough on whether or not the candidate is qualified for the office that he/she is running for. This claim is demonstrated in many of the debates for the presidential candidates for this election.
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