Thank you for this concise, precise analysis of the faux conservatism of the current Rs. Having studied Burke and ploughed through Kirk's The Conservative Mind and related works quite some time ago, I have long thought the same - that the words "liberal" and "conservative" have long lost any precision or consistency in their usage. They, like CRT, DEI and "woke", have been "Rufo-ed" - stripped intentionally of any central definition and bastardized into a general garbage term used by many to label everything they do not like. Orwell would be shaking his head, figuratively, and lamenting how little we have learned to resist the politicization of language in the past 70 years. These are the wages of de-emphasizing critical thinking skills and watering down the teaching of history into feel good stories of a largely mythical past. Again, thank you for this piece.
"They throw themselves in front of cameras as if diving on live grenades." Man, ain't that the truth. But diving on live grenades is an act of bravery and selflessness. Jumping in front of a lens is the absolute opposite.
Thank you for this concise, precise analysis of the faux conservatism of the current Rs. Having studied Burke and ploughed through Kirk's The Conservative Mind and related works quite some time ago, I have long thought the same - that the words "liberal" and "conservative" have long lost any precision or consistency in their usage. They, like CRT, DEI and "woke", have been "Rufo-ed" - stripped intentionally of any central definition and bastardized into a general garbage term used by many to label everything they do not like. Orwell would be shaking his head, figuratively, and lamenting how little we have learned to resist the politicization of language in the past 70 years. These are the wages of de-emphasizing critical thinking skills and watering down the teaching of history into feel good stories of a largely mythical past. Again, thank you for this piece.
Excellent.
"They throw themselves in front of cameras as if diving on live grenades." Man, ain't that the truth. But diving on live grenades is an act of bravery and selflessness. Jumping in front of a lens is the absolute opposite.