Wm. F. Buckley, Jr. and the rise of american conservatism.
[A book, I guess, on amazon.]
"William F. Buckley Jr., was the foremost architect of the conservative movement that swept the American political landscape from the ...
'Firing Line with Margaret Hoover' was just on with Mark Warner. They showed a clip of Buckley and Herbert Hoover discussing impeachment and censuring. Don't know what point that was to make.
No wonder I never cared for Buckley. Ever.
What's Margaret a descendant of Hoover? Margaret was starting to venture into the trash-talkin' realm sounded like to me. Margie was hooverin'...
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of my husband...that apple didn’t fall far from the tree either. 
He wasn't trying to imply that's all the couple next door cared about.
We're so fortunate. Liberalism's very old and distinguished intellectual basis is a strength that's kept America's liberals close to our principles for 250 years. It arises from our inborn liberal personality traits as well. As a result, today's liberal Democratic Party continues the heritage begun with Jefferson's and Madison's Democratic-Republican Party, which they took from earlier liberal philosophers of the Enlightenment and Age of Reason, and far before those even.
Conservative people don't have our intellectual buttresses, they have mostly gut feelings and are more influenced by fear. And now scientists have discovered they process information in different order from us -- through an emotional center for reaction first, then on for further cognitive evaluation, those who aren't already too carried away by some lie to care. (We do the smart part first, then on to react emotionally to it.) This all makes them particularly vulnerable to manipulation by evil-doers employing modern psychological techniques and mass communications.
But, although most of the liberal half are less vulnerable, those same manipulations work to various degrees on us also because of the many faults and weaknesses we share with them, displayed as proof positive on almost any thread here. However, ours are not all we are, and theirs are not all they are.
For another quote that's also applicable: Lincoln's observation is most of what Buckley et al tried to create an intellectual argument for conservatism out of:
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
That valuable conservative ballast for the ship of state is a huge part of what economically conservative billionaires had to purge from the Republican Party's orientation in order to dismantle systems and regulations that worked well. And here we are, divided and semi-conquered until enough of them finally break away.
attitudes toward equality are reportedly, according to psychologists, the single biggest difference between liberals and conservatives.
Liberals tend to be wired to believe in principles of equality, to feel its rightness in our guts, and also to individual rights. We, of course, created government of, by and for the people, intrinsically and inseparably liberal.
Conservatives in general are oriented more to hierarchical, unequal societies, and with a more communal orientation to their moral codes, protection of societal structures prioritized over the individual.
Of course just saying these things simplifies too much. We're reportedly all goulashes of beliefs. There are a few here who feel, just as strongly as any trumpster, that they should overset the rights of those who disagree with them to have a say in our democracy; not everyone's wired for representative government. And even with today's poisoned political thinking, some conservatives would die to protect our sovereignty.
But many people here listen to and admire Scarborough, Nicolle Wallace, Richard Painter, many others, and they're conservative. It's probable that some of the heroic impeachment witnesses are also.
Especially when it affects others in the negative, when they impose or quite frankly force [attempt to] their 'ideology' on others.
Mb I'm hard headed. Those who have come to 'reasoning' regarding the damage foisted upon our nation for decades by members of the 'other side', and yet continue to identify as 'republicans' I still can't trust them in totality. When they actually move in with 'us', then their words hold true value for me.
Forgive me for my stance. 💙
