Conservatives Thrown into Cold, Lightless Depths

[babylonsister]

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http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2010/3/22/142311/878

Conservatives Thrown into Cold, Lightless Depths

by BooMan
Mon Mar 22nd, 2010 at 02:23:11 PM EST


John Derbyshire of the National Review is ahead of the curve. He's already in the depression stage of grief.

I see plainly that Western civilization, over my lifetime, has been a slow-sinking ship. The few who have known what is happening have worked desperately to seal the watertight doors, repair the fissures, pump out the flooded zones. It's been a losing fight, though. The tilt of the decks is harder and harder to ignore. Last night, a major bulkhead gave way. Soon a funnel will topple over with a great crash and a shower of sparks. Yet still the band is playing, the people are dancing, the food coming up from the galley.

Steven Hayward, writing about my latest in the Claremont Review of Books, says it is "surprising that Derbyshire never raises the obvious question: without the conservative movement of the past 50 years, how much worse would things be?" Not much, would be my answer. Certainly those working the pumps have been engaged in a noble endeavor, which I'm proud to have been associated with. They could hear the dance music too, though. It got their feet a-tapping; then an ex-colleague came down from the ballroom to mock and tempt, and soon there was one less pair of hands on the pumps, and one more government program, one more subsidy, one more tax, one more restraint on freedom of speech or association, one more futile war.

It'll be over soon. We'll be down in the cold, lightless depths of imperial despotism — in which, after all, the great majority of human beings, throughout history, have always lived. It's the natural way: liberty is an unstable temporary aberration.

Melodramatic? You bet. But the perfect epitaph to the Reagan Revolution. Derbyshire understands, as the real Jeffrey Lebowski put it, "Your revolution is over. The bums lost." Of course, Derbyshire will get over his despondency. He'll be back in the fray. But he'll never see the American he just lost come back again. He will always remain in the cold, lightless depths.

[katmondoo]

1. It has been downhill since Reagan

Hopefully we are in recovery now.

[Gman2]

3. Yes, but now freepers think so too.

[Xipe Totec]

2. The Conservative Movement has finished

going through the bowels of the Republican party.

It was a painfully slow movement that started with Reagan.

it was accompanied by the sonorous thunder of Buchanan, Limbaugh and Coulter,

it peaked when the turd-blossom showed up,

and it ended appropriately with a perfect asswipe, George W. Bush.

[rocktivity]

4. What do you mean, "thrown into?"

Cold, lifeless depths is what they've ALWAYS been about!


rocktivity

[maxsolomon]

5. they act like Sweden is a gulag

cut the military in half, or even a third, and watch that deficit dry up, whingers.

[Jennicut]

6. Not only is Reaganism dead, people my age and younger don't remember Ronnie all that well.

"Reagan Democrats" are getting older now and younger voters ages 18 to 34, don't remember much about the man (I was a child when he was President) or were born way after he was gone. There is no great love of Reaganism for people in this age group, just empty words of the past.

The Reagan revolution, the era of small govt., was always a lie anyway. The conservatives had big govt. for things like Star Wars. But small govt. was okay for the poor and the lowly working and middle class. What a joke.

[Loge23]

7. "restraint on freedom" and "futile war(s)"??

Aren't those things Conservative values??
Aren't they the ones that start "futile war(s)?
Aren't they the ones that love limiting freedoms to the ones that only they support?
Wasn't the (Un)Patriot Act a Conversative/Repub creation?

We went through eight years of the most incredibly destructive administration of our times. They can deal with health care for 34 million more people, for cryin' out loud.
What utter twits!