Saturday, August 15, 2015

Derbyshire on Cuckesrvatism

Excellent read by John Derbyshire at V-Dare on the failures of modern "con"servativism

Some key excerpts:

"  Our culture has continued to slide giggling into the pit. It is now thirty years since you last heard anyone hum a tune from a current popular song. Concerts of serious music rarely include anything less than half a century old. Very few of us could name a living painter or architect. Entire years pass when no American outside the academy spontaneously quotes a line of verse written by any American poet younger than Elizabeth Bishop (b. 1911), or a British poet younger than Philip Larkin (b. 1922). The middlebrow novel is slipping into extinction. Movies are an extension of the comic-book industry; only TV drama shows occasional flashes of brilliance. The churches are branch offices of Globalist Multiculturalism, Inc.: the Episcopal church in my sleepy, 360-year-old Long Island town advertises Misa en Español. "
And this...

"As I told a roomful of National Review cruise passengers three years ago: You can forget about standing athwart History crying “Stop!” The modern style of career conservatism prefers to run along panting behind the juggernaut squeaking: “Would you mind perhaps just slowing down a teeny bit?”...
Read the entire column at V-Dare (see blog list to the right).

Update: Derb does it again...

From his latest V-Dare column on Trump...

"The reason we Trump supporters like the guy so much is precisely that following the rules has gotten us—us patriotic conservatives—nowhere
Following the rules got us eight years of George W. Bush, who gave us Open Borders, missionary wars, and “When somebody hurts, Government has got to move.” Then it got us eight years of Barack Obama, who gave us Open Borders, Amnesty for foreign scofflaws, radical-left Supreme Court justices, and eighteen trillion dollars of debt."


 



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