Most conservatives disliked liberals more than they liked liberty. Serial marriages, divorces, consumers of pornography, barbaric households with mannerless children were as frequent among conservatives as they were among liberals. Worse: conservatives came to believe in Progress even more than liberals; their inclinations to conserve shrank to near nothing.
...The real enemy is now the (outdated) idea of Progress, together with the (thoughtless) belief in Technology. Conservatives should be the first to recognize that. ...A conservative who fails to protect and to conserve is nothing but a radical loudmouth of a bad sort.
TAC: John Lukacs
Thursday July 27, 2006
Prof. Lukacs says that "inflation" has ruined the meaning of the word "conservative":
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Serial marriages, divorces, consumers of pornography, barbaric households with mannerless children were as frequent among conservatives as they were among liberals.
Has there ever been an empirical study of the frequency of any of these phenomena according to political self-evaluation? Did Prof. Lukacs make reference to it?>
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