Beat Socialism
One of my social conservative friends and I were having the usual acrimonious discussion and he let slip that he didn't give a fig about pushing social issues this cycle because the most important thing was defeating the current wastrels in Congress.
Good. Because I really like working with social conservatives. Really.
But it got me thinking. Suppose my social conservative friend thought it would be a good idea not just to beat the current wastrels but beat socialism. Which is to say turn it into a very fringe cult. After all we still have a few National Socialists in America. That would mean keeping social issues off the table for 20 or 30 years in order to keep the current coalition together. And not just keep it together but also make it stronger.
When the chips are down social conservatives can be really smart. The trouble so far is that they do not stay smart. At least not enough of them.
And yes. I also have a lot of social conservative friends who get it. Politically libertarian and morally as straight as they come. What a pleasure it is to work with them. We may differ as to how to live but we have no practical difference on how we want to be governed. Now that is truly a stout coalition. Stout enough to restore liberty and defeat the socialists.
Cross Posted at Classical Values
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At the present moment people are unusually expectant of a more fundamental diagnosis; more particularly ready to receive it; eager to try it out, if it should be even plausible. But apart from this contemporary mood, the ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else.
Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are twenty-five or thirty years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
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The above comment borders on spam but I thought I'd leave it because even a fool's idea deserves some consideration. How much? In my estimation not much.
We may differ as to how to live but we have no practical difference on how we want to be governed.
I like that phrase. A lot.
Good post, Simon. I agree with Casey, nicely put.
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