Fad Politics
From time to time there come about certain fads which we partake in, only to find evidence of it years later which appalls us. “To think I once wore that!” ...and so forth.
The center-heavy, uni-branch, Mao-style government that has been ‘all the craze’ of late is one phenomenon I count among these ‘fads’. Imagine a few years down the road, the silly things one gets tricked into saying. View the slippery slope towards Mao-style government that Bush has brought us down. Is this something that ‘conservatives’ (little ‘c’
will just miss, absorb, move on from. Can you guys really rationalize the Bear and Stearns thing as just market maintenance? How far must we pound out our definitions to convince ourselves this is ‘conservative’. Market maintenance or moving towards Mao? What is quasi-public? Is little ‘c’ conservatism still viable? If only the hardworking rural folk weren’t working, if only they could take some time off. They wouldn’t even have to spend as much time in the mirror looking at themselves as all politicians doubtlessly do… if we could get them to remind us once again what matters. Its rapport with your neighbors, so that when a cow dies you can call them and have em dig you a big hole with their backhoe on the cheap before it starts to stink…