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Fighting Against The Future

By Kleinheider Posted on August 27, 2008 at 7:38 am

Jon Wright on the Republican message:

I mean, as I’ve watched the propaganda pushed out by the goopers, whether it be the unsanctioned race baiting of Hobbs and the TNGOP, or the almost worse “vote for McCain because Obama’s a celebrity and might be The Antichrist” message from national — what I’ve seen is fear.

Not just a mere fear that the Republicans are going to lose, but a real and disturbing fear that the world is changing.

And really, what is conservatism — in all but the fiscal libertarian senses at least — *but* fear? Fear of change, fear of people who are different, fear of anything that might challenge one to see the world as it is rather than how we might have been told it should be?

It’s something that resonated with me as I watched Michelle Obama deliver her fantastic speech across YouTube. The world *is* changing. WASPS are no longer the American majority. Whites in general won’t be much longer. Blaming all the world’s problems on gays and Mexicans is no longer flying — and even the believers are starting to smell the bull****.

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3 Responses to “Fighting Against The Future”

  1. LeftWingCracker writes
    August 27th, 2008 9:47 am

    BRAVO.

  2. DG writes
    August 27th, 2008 1:00 pm

    I’m not a conservative, at all, but I don’t think that’s fair.

    There is a coherent conservative ideology that is, or ought to be, at the core of their beliefs. What the Republicans are mostly doing at this point is trying to scare people and throw red meat to their base of support, and the scare tactics go from the merely demonstrably false (Muslim) to the merely disingenuous (all the crocodile tears about how the party has betrayed Hillary, who they would be attacking constantly for that Bosnia sniper fire lie right know, had she won the nomination) to the bizarre (portraying the verbal slip about “57 states” as though Obama were a halfwit).

    But it’s not like they don’t have a genuine, positive agenda– it’s just that few Republicans really govern much based on conservative ideology. What this is really about is crass, naked power, not what to do with it.

  3. Jon writes
    August 28th, 2008 10:25 am

    One of the difficulties of soundbite blogging is the inevitable loss of context. When I rail on conservatives as I did in this piece, I’m speaking to a particular definition of the term, shorthand referenced by the line “— in all but the fiscal libertarian senses at least —”.

    There was a time when conservatism referred to classic liberals with a positive small-government vision. Unfortunately, such people went to bed with black widow neocons and praying mantis theocons — and surprise surprise, they got eaten.

    Eisenhower would not be a conservative by today’s standards. Hell, *Reagan* would hardly be one.

    There are Republicans with genuine, positive agendas, but no conservatives. Conservatism left them, now they’re moderates and libertarians.

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