Thursday, November 06, 2003
WHY I AM NOT A "CONSERVATIVE"
The First in a Series
Here's an article by Pat Buchanan in a magazine called The American Conservative that illustrates why I'll never be a "conservative:"
The mega-issues on which the Bushes abandoned conservatism for the Hong Kong values of the Wall Street Journal are free-trade globalism, open-borders immigration, and Wilsonian interventionism.
The important point is that "real conservatives" in America aren't capitalists and don't hold liberty or human life as primary values. They will sacrifice capitalism, liberty and life every time there's a conflict between these values and the fantasy they cherish of a Norman Rockwell past of small-town and small-farmer virtues.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 7:56 AM
