Jeff Deist: The Trouble with Conservatives

[Suzanimal]

Audio at link.

Conservatives once stood for judicious use of government power and minding our own business in foreign affairs. Today, 100 years after the beginning of the progressive revolution, conservatives don't conserve anything. They vote for big-government schemes, favor globalism over real capitalism, and advocate an aggressive foreign policy that installs American troops around the globe. They've lost any claim to the mantle of "limited government," and lost every battle concerning abortion and social issues. Worst of all, Republicans have created a bloated jobs programs for themselves—Conservatism, Inc.—that shows nothing but contempt for its own voting base.

Is the GOP the next Whig party, consigned to history?

For further reading, see Murray Rothbard's The Betrayal of the American Right, Justin Raimondo's Reclaiming the American Right, and "The Coming Conservative Dark Age" by Matthew Continetti.

See also the Mises Institute's online archives of The American Mercury (1936–1943).

https://mises.org/library/trouble-conservatives

[georgiaboy]

very good listen.

[Suzanimal]

very good listen.

It was. This one was good, too.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...h-Progressives

[Ronin Truth]

"The problem with American conservatism is that it hates the left more than the state, loves the past more than liberty, feels a greater attachment to nationalism than to the idea of self-determination, believes brute force is the answer to all social problems, and thinks it is better to impose truth rather than risk losing one soul to heresy. It has never understood the idea of freedom as a self-ordering principle of society. It has never seen the state as the enemy of what conservatives purport to favor. It has always looked to presidential power as the saving grace of what is right and true about America." -- Lew Rockwell

[LibertyEagle]

Conservatives <> NEOCONS.

See Ron Paul's famous speech called neo-conned.

[RestorationOfLiberty]

Conservatives <> NEOCONS.

See Ron Paul's famous speech called neo-conned.

He should have been President.