Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
Conservatives of whom there were few in universities, media, and politics were a principled opposition of the wayward ways in which Americans were being led.
They were defenders of the Constitution. They believed that the US government’s job was to protect citizens’ constitutional rights and to serve American interests rather than the interest of foreign governments. This last belief was compromised by conservatives’ opposition to the Soviet Union and support for wars, primarily the Vietnam War, that were seen as necessary to constrain Communist expansion.
This compromise has lived on, and the neoconservative agenda of American hegemony in Israel’s interest has eroded the original conservatism. Today what passes for “conservatives” are trying to silence Candace Owens for reporting honestly on Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians. They now use the tactics that they damned the liberal-left for using.
Now the Republican Party, once considered to be a conservative opposition, is considering inviting Netanyahu, the Slaughterer of the Palestinians, to address Congress. Any conservative, any person of integrity would have to wonder why a mass murderer, an architect of the genocide of a people and a country, would be invited to address the US Congress.
Apparently, it is to score off of Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who recently harshly criticized Netanyahu.
In other words, conservatism has been reduced to politics.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/20/scoop-house-gop-weighs-inviting-netanyahu-to-address-congress
I don’t really trust Axios, and this report could have as its intention to undermine confidence in the Republican House of Representatives.
On the other hand, Axios’ report fits with the conservative effort to censor Candace Owens.
“Far-right” is the liberal-left’s description of conservatives, and this identification of the two could be false.
Nevertheless, I used to know the conservative intellectuals. Most of them are dead. And if they have replacements, the replacements are not very visible.
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The Overton window has moved so far to the left that there is no such thing as a conservative in politics any more. Ron Paul was probably the last out the window… Chip
Conservatives don’t exist in the body politic any longer. They are not allowed. Further proof… Chip
Nothing, same useless tools they always were.
“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent, Northern conservatism. This [Northern conservatism] 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 today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism 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. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is worse than its bite,” and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip.”
― Robert Lewis Dabney
What was once multicultural Liberalism has been redefined as Conservatism. While what was once open border, anti-White Communism has been redefined as progressive Liberalism. If one takes a Conservative stand the Zio Commies call the Conservative, names such as “Nazi” or “racist”. Soon followed by the Conservative flipping like Oksana Baiul. Why do Conservatives allow their enemies to redefine their language and identity? Why do the people of the West follow the Zio Commie script?
“Any conservative, any person of integrity would have to wonder why a mass murderer, an architect of the genocide of a people and a country, would be invited to address the US Congress.
” By May 2018, Georgia was already reportedly experiencing a more rapid rise in officer-involved shootings than the rest of the country. According to an investigation of deadly police shootings in Georgia, in the six years after 2010, 184 people were shot and killed by police; almost half of them unarmed or shot in the back.”
https://progressive.org/latest/us-police-trained-by-israel-communities-of-color-paying-price-shahshahani-cohen-191007/
Joseph McCarthy was correct.
Abe Lincoln?