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If I ever go through an extended period of non-posting don’t be alarmed. It just means I extremely busy with other projects. But now that I have some down time, I will give my thoughts on certain topics of note:

– I watched Professor Gottfried’s address to the H.L. Mencken club and while I thought he made some good points and good critiques of paleoconservatism, it was hard for me to discern what he thought a more effective alternative would be.  Maybe he really doesn’t know himself other than “well we have young people and they’re not part of Conservative INC.”  That’s true, but then again so are we here at CHT, or TRI or FPR for that matter.  Maybe what the “alt right” really is is a secular  reaction to the religiosity among many conservatives (or I suppose a pagan reaction to conservatives Christianity) and belief that if the young are becoming less religious, then we need a conservatism that reflects this. But then what are we conserving then anyway? Old Slipknot T-shirts? Then was what’s the difference with libertarianism? Do we really want to be the home for the “straight-edgers?” It not even good heavy metal.

– As for the Tea Party convention, I would point out that 600 people is dwarfed by the number of people who attend netroots convention or even a CPAC convention for that matter. There was just as many media people there. I guess one can say the convention was a success just for attracting the number of reporters it despite being so lightly attended in the grand scheme of things. But then there was Sarah Palin’s “talk to the hand” moment of imbecility along with her war speech and you pretty much realize that old Sarah, before she hit the big time, is long since gone. It’s too bad really, because she once was pretty eclectic. But it also goes to show how much of a gap there is, even outside of Cosmoland, between the Sarah Palin and Ron Paul Right. I wish it could be closed but Dispensationalism keeps getting in the way. By the way, I hope Tom Tancredo doesn’t apply his literacy test to all those white folks who’ve appeared on “Jaywalking”. They wouldn’t pass a literacy test either.

– I think it’s long since past time we eliminated the term “global warming.”  Climate change is one thing and we may very well be going through a period of climate change. But such changes have happened before and have happened long before the first combustion engine was built. Climate change may very well mean more storms and colder temperatures because melting glaciers cool ocean waters which affect weather system formation. I agree with FPR John Medaille that too many conservatives have a “let’s waste our natural resources approach because we must feed the God of Progress (libertarians you sort of expect it from them)”, but I also don’t think it’s possible to all live like the Amish either nor would very many want to. And trying to get China or India to skip the industrial revolution by treaty is ridiculous and a waste of time. Talk about western imperialism. One can believe in conservation without believing in the dictatorship of the post-industrial society.

2 Responses to “Some thoughts while I was away…”

1. S.L. Toddard on 16 Feb 2010 at 10:53 pm #

   I certainly don’t believe we should have to live like the Amish either, but I’d say that what the FPR crowd generally preaches (economically) is a lot closer to the America we need than what Conservative Inc preaches. They do not comprehend the corporatist nature of the current American system, and therefore act as though one can be anti-Big Government and pro-Big Business at the same time. It’s not Big Government washing the brains of generations of Americans through the television, after all.

2. Patroon on 17 Feb 2010 at 1:42 pm #

   Agreed.

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