tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182119.post3077846471200167868..comments2024-03-28T10:36:31.949+00:00Comments on House of Dumb: Respectable Conservatives Are Trans-SmartDJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00446322024174274621noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182119.post-51407618236556717842019-02-09T11:56:38.959+00:002019-02-09T11:56:38.959+00:00[2/2] Along with Ann Coulter, Steyn has repeatedly...[2/2] Along with Ann Coulter, Steyn has repeatedly warned we’re playing our enemies’ game for them; and many others have noted that as Conservatives/Republicans keep chasing a (Left-shifting) ‘centre’, they alienate their natural base. Our """Conservatives""" <a href="https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/move-to-remove-uk-voting-rights-from-irish-denied-1.2068557" rel="nofollow">do not even possess the spine</a> to restrict the franchise to British nationals, which would be only in line with every other ‘democracy’ in the world. (Citizens of <a href="https://www.yourvotematters.co.uk/can-i-vote/who-can-register-to-vote" rel="nofollow"><b>53</b> countries</a> can vote in <i>all</i> our elections and referenda (even if just <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36316467" rel="nofollow">passing through</a>), few of whom reciprocate (e.g. Australia, Canada) or are recognisable democracies (e.g. Zimbabwe), and some are not even former British colonies (e.g. Mozambique, Rwanda); meanwhile, as of 2017, there are 11 seats with majorities of <100. It’s not a magic bullet that will deliver Tory victories forevermore; but it’s a minor tweak to our electoral system that will marginally enhance the Tory position—and the Tories stand there like a rabbit caught in headlights, completely powerless (despite holding executive power) in the face of the liberal-left-SJW onslaught.)<br /><br />Conservatism has <b>failed</b>—there is no longer anything left to conserve; we need to start discussing ‘<b><i><a href="https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/510256834553585664" rel="nofollow">RESTORATION</a></i></b>’.ScotchedEarthnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182119.post-49696492361260726712019-02-09T11:54:36.143+00:002019-02-09T11:54:36.143+00:00[1/2] The Overton Window shifts ever-leftward. As ...[1/2] The Overton Window shifts ever-leftward. As ‘Moldbug’, father of NRx and the John the Baptist of Reaction preparing the way, wrote: ‘<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140419090854/http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/gentle-introduction-to-unqualified.html" rel="nofollow">Cthulhu may swim slowly. But he only swims left.</a>’<br /><br />Remember our <a href="http://www.centreforcrimeprevention.com/" rel="nofollow">Peter Cuthbertson</a>’s 2002 satirical piece, which sums up the situation still? ‘Then and Now: Conservative Candidate Selection’ (available from the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20021014020501/http:/conservativecommentary.blogspot.com/2002_08_01_conservativecommentary_archive.html" rel="nofollow">Internet Archive</a>, scroll down).<br /><br />As Robert Dabney wrote over a century ago, but the words might have been written yesterday:<br /><i>[C]onservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is to-day one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will to-morrow be forced upon its timidity, and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. … [C]onservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. … It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle.</i><br />Dabney, Robert L. <i>Discussions.</i> Vol. IV. Mexico, MO: Crescent Book House, 1897. 496.<br /><br />Or as Mark Steyn put it in 2010:<br /><i>In most of the rest of the Western world, there are still nominally “conservative” parties, and they even win elections occasionally, but not to any great effect … The result is a kind of two-party one-party state: Right-of-center parties will once in a while be in office, but never in power, merely presiding over vast left-wing bureaucracies that cruise on regardless.<br />…<br />Once the state swells to a certain size, the people available to fill the ever-expanding number of government jobs will be statists—sometimes hard-core Marxist statists, sometimes social-engineering multiculti statists, sometimes fluffily “compassionate” statists, but always statists. The short history of the post-war welfare state is that you don’t need a president-for-life if you’ve got a bureaucracy-for-life: The people can elect “conservatives,” as the Germans have done and the British are about to do, and the Left is mostly relaxed about it because, in all but exceptional cases (Thatcher), they fulfil the same function in the system as the first-year boys at wintry English boarding schools who, for tuppence-ha’penny or some such, would agree to go and warm the seat in the unheated lavatories until the prefects strolled in and took their rightful place.</i><br />Steyn, Mark. “<a href="http://www.ocregister.com/2010/03/05/mark-steyn-obamacare-worth-the-price-to-democrats/" rel="nofollow">Obamacare worth the price to Democrats</a>.” <i>Orange County Register.</i> 5 Mar 2010.ScotchedEarthnoreply@blogger.com