Enjoying the JourneySpotlight Post: True conservatism has vanished and it is the nation’s loss.
October 20th 2008 15:00
Jim Stillman wrote on PoliticalCertainy.com . . .
True conservatism has vanished and it is the nation’s loss.
This comment is written with some sadness. A good and honorable man, John McCain entered into a bargain wherein he sold his soul and honor in return for the presidency; it now looks like he has lost both.
The 2008 election is witness to what has happened to a once proud and honorable political tradition and movement in the United States. The Conservative/Republican movement started, under Abraham Lincoln, as a liberal, progressive decent counter to the worst portions of our national nature.
The traditional role of the conservative movement in the United States has been to put a brake on liberal-progressive proposals and action, allowing periods of deliberation. At the start of the twentieth century, movements were promoted by liberal activists to grant suffrage to women, control business, regulate various industries (food processors, drug manufacturers), eliminate laws and practices that perpetuated second class citizenship for blacks and the introduction of other programs that were considered at the time to be “radical”.
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True conservatism has vanished and it is the nation’s loss.
This comment is written with some sadness. A good and honorable man, John McCain entered into a bargain wherein he sold his soul and honor in return for the presidency; it now looks like he has lost both.
The 2008 election is witness to what has happened to a once proud and honorable political tradition and movement in the United States. The Conservative/Republican movement started, under Abraham Lincoln, as a liberal, progressive decent counter to the worst portions of our national nature.
The traditional role of the conservative movement in the United States has been to put a brake on liberal-progressive proposals and action, allowing periods of deliberation. At the start of the twentieth century, movements were promoted by liberal activists to grant suffrage to women, control business, regulate various industries (food processors, drug manufacturers), eliminate laws and practices that perpetuated second class citizenship for blacks and the introduction of other programs that were considered at the time to be “radical”.
Click here to read this post in its entirety.
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