Tuesday, January 14, 2020
Monday, January 13, 2020
The death yesterday of British conservative Roger Scruton reminds us why conservatism in America is such a fraught enterprise
Scruton was what American conservative and fellow Burkean Russell Kirk might have styled a conservative of enjoyment, a person wedded to the vicissitudes of a local history come what may, with all the comforts, misfortunes, oddities and delights bound up in it, to whom it would never occur to be separated from it.
To be sure many Americans have been and still are people of such places, lovers of their new! ancestral homes, their communities, their churches and all the other institutions which over time they have come to make and make their own. This has been true especially in rural America, the bastion of Republicanism.
But this has always been in conflict with the idea and the reality of immigrant and industrial America, whose people are traitors to their birthplaces, homes and communities not just whence they came, but also here. Coincident with modernity's forces, these Americans willingly and happily move frequently for employment and new experiences, and abandon old places, old laws, old books, old boots and old friends whenever the winds of change blow strong enough in whatever direction. The great problem now is most never even bother to learn the old ways before they abandon them.
These libertarians now have the upper hand in America, making a sorry spectacle of the cause once known as conservatism. Most know nothing of what conservatism even means. Reading Scruton could teach them, but they would recoil in horror.
Black Lives Matter protests against Indiana's Pete Bootyjudge, shouting he's anti-black and anti-poor
He's not too fond of the ladies, either.
Wacky Bernie wants prisoners to be able to vote, wacky Pocahonky wants to put the tranny women in with the women, where I'm sure nothing bad will happen to the women
Right Chief, we'll protect the women-men by endangering the women-women. Got it.
Democrats are insane.
Sunday, January 12, 2020
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Millions of older workers aged 55-64 have also been driven out of the labor force in the last 20 years by greedy corporations hungry for cheap, foreign labor, aided and abetted by Bush, Obama and now Trump
Average number aged 55-64 "not in labor force"
1999: 9.382 million
2019: 14.638 million
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+5.256 million in the last 20 years
There's plenty of labor available, Mr. Trump.
We don't need your cheap foreign scab labor.
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