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scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
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Social Studies:The study of the socialist?
Ozaob
Okay, fine, the constantly evolvers will go on constantly tearing down; but where are those who should be shouting STOP?!
I blame the Republican Party, which has joined the constantly evolvers, rather than having coalesced the resistance. True, there are genuine conservatives, at the margins; but without a central agent to carry the traditional banner defeat is certain. The Republican Party is that agent. There is no other. And the Republican Party has abdicated its responsibility.
That's why we're in this mess. There is no party of FIGHT BACK!
I made the mistake in one of my letters of expressing exorbitant hopes for the role National Review might play in political affairs. He dashed them down in a paragraph unmatched in the literature of supine gloom, sentences that President Reagan, who was in awe of their eloquence, and defiant of their fatalism, publicly recalled more than once. It is idle, he rebuked me, to talk about preventing the wreck of Western civilization. It is already a wreck from within. That is why we can hope to do little more now than snatch a fingernail of a saint from the rack or a handful of ashes from the faggots, and bury them secretly in a flowerpot against the day, ages hence, when a few men begin again to dare to believe that there was once something else, that something else is thinkable, and need some evidence of what it was, and the fortifying knowledge that there were those who, at the great nightfall, took loving thought to preserve the tokens of hope and truth.
The tokens of hope and truth were not to be preserved, he seemed to be saying, in a journal of opinion, not to be preserved by writers or thinkers. Only by activists, and I was to know that he considered a publication — the right kind of publication — not a word, but a deed. In the final analysis it was action, not belletrism, that moved him most deeply. ~WFB in re Chambers
Read the whole piece: https://www.nationalreview.com/flashback/2001200511220837.asp
And if you so desire, let me know and I can provide Chamber's forward to Witness.
Casca