This was posted here a year ago so I wonder if anyone's opinions have changed. IMO the most compelling argument for the cases made in this video is in the followup video where innuendo talks about...
This was posted here a year ago so I wonder if anyone's opinions have changed.
IMO the most compelling argument for the cases made in this video is in the followup video where innuendo talks about how conservatism effectively began when the French Revolution worried the monarchs/aristocrats being protested on how to make a more stable caste system and doesn't really seem to have truly strayed from those roots.
The most compelling case against is the size of the tent of 'conservative' ideology, which is terribly vague and can stretch from Pinochet to Hitler to anarcho-capitalists to neoliberals, nearly every foreign policy approach (imperialism, nationalism, isolationism, mercantilism, globalism) to whatever Mitt Romney believes, so there's probably more than one or 2 ideologies that can work within the democratic process.
More tangentially this doesn't call out the bullshit in... basically every economically leftist but socially conservative ideology. (Stalinism, NazBol-ism, Strasserism, culturally conservative minorities, etc)
This was posted here a year ago so I wonder if anyone's opinions have changed.
IMO the most compelling argument for the cases made in this video is in the followup video where innuendo talks about how conservatism effectively began when the French Revolution worried the monarchs/aristocrats being protested on how to make a more stable caste system and doesn't really seem to have truly strayed from those roots.
The most compelling case against is the size of the tent of 'conservative' ideology, which is terribly vague and can stretch from Pinochet to Hitler to anarcho-capitalists to neoliberals, nearly every foreign policy approach (imperialism, nationalism, isolationism, mercantilism, globalism) to whatever Mitt Romney believes, so there's probably more than one or 2 ideologies that can work within the democratic process.
More tangentially this doesn't call out the bullshit in... basically every economically leftist but socially conservative ideology. (Stalinism, NazBol-ism, Strasserism, culturally conservative minorities, etc)