The Case For Making The GOP A Working-Class Party

Speaking to a televised audience from the convention stage, he said,
“The other party also tells us they believe in the American Dream. They
say we should worry about economic inequality and immobility. You know
what? They’re right. But what they don’t tell you is that it was their
policies that caused the problem.” 

The central argument of The Republican Workers Party presents
the case for a conservative nationalism that stands squarely in the best
of the American tradition, not the blood-and-soil nationalism of
reactionary fringe movements. It is, first and foremost, a liberal
nationalism derived from America’s founding principles. It rests on
bonds of common citizenship and a common devotion to liberty and
equality. Buckley argues that a Republican Party that wishes to embrace
an American nationalism that transcends ties of blood or faith need only
look back to its first and greatest president for guidance.

The Case For Making The GOP A Working-Class Party

How Culture Makes Us Smarter

And it’s easy to see why the capacity for cumulative culture is useful.
In a nutshell, cumulative culture is the ultimate time-saver. Because of
cumulative culture, we don’t need to reinvent the wheel with each new
generation – quite literally. We don’t each need to have our own Eureka
moments to understand fluid dynamics; we don’t each need to have an
apple fall on our head to understand gravity; and we don’t each need to
dream of a snake eating its own tail to understand the structure of the
benzene molecule. All we need is to go to school, or to own a library
card, or to have an Internet connection. We can then download into our
brains some of the achieved knowledge of the species. This subsequently
becomes the starting point for the next round of innovation.

Our mind tools include, first and foremost, the words and phrases of
the languages we speak. Each word and each phrase is a handy little tool
for thinking – a prosthetic aid to cognition, as the philosopher Daniel
Dennett put it.6 Other important mind tools include probability theory, cost-benefit analysis, time management,
financial planning, and counting to ten when you’re angry. These tools
are a lot like smart-phone apps. The more apps you download onto your
phone, the more your phone can do. Likewise, the more mind tools you
download into your brain, the more that you can do.

And you don’t have to be an incurable optimist to see that our mind tools get better with time

I don’t like making the point, however the race/IQ debate should be over culture/IQ debate.

How Culture Makes Us Smarter

What Bill Buckley Would Say to Conservatives Today

I stressed that Buckley delineated the critical difference between
the conservative movement and the Republican Party, which are two
separate institutions. The latter is a political party interested in
winning races and gaining power. Conservatism is an intellectual
movement dedicated to ideas that often have political application. The
fortunes of the conservative moment are not automatically tied to the
inevitable ups and downs of the GOP.

I concluded by pointing out that in his leadership of the
conservative movement, Buckley sided with T.S. Eliot, who wrote that
there are no lost causes because there are no gained causes. Indeed,
Buckley welcomed the never-ending struggle to preserve and protect the
priceless idea of ordered liberty.

That cause wasn’t lost in Buckley’s day, and it still isn’t lost today.

“idea of ordered liberty” Ordered by who? to what end?

 a nation ruled by laws not men can still be ruled by the men who write them and destroyed be those who enforce them

What Bill Buckley Would Say to Conservatives Today

Wanted: New Conservative Fighters

Somebody needs to tell these Republican intellectual elites that the
other side is shooting at us figuratively and literally as in the case
of Congressman Steve Scalise.  In this new age of political warfare,
they have allowed the left to dictate the rules of engagement. In turn,
the left has turned politics into the art of lying. They control the
language that can be used and thus control the narrative. Anyone who
thinks the left will play fair or use traditional methods to win debates
or elections is dangerously naïve. These political ambushes are the
metaphorical equivalent of a roadside IED. Often you won’t know the
left’s blast is coming until it’s too late in the election cycle when
their eleventh-hour surprise smears or outright lies appear.

Wanted: New Conservative Fighters

No Choir – Florence + the Machine

…And there would be no grand choirs to sing
No chorus could come in
About two people sitting doing nothing
But I must confess
I did it all for myself
I gathered you here
To hide from some vast unnameable fear

…
No chorus will come in
No ballad will be written
It will be entirely forgotten
And if tomorrow it’s all over
At least we had it for a moment
Oh darling things seem so unstable
But for a moment we were able to be still

americana-plus:

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution. He is popularly considered the driving force behind the nation’s establishment and came to be known as the “father of the country,” both during his lifetime and to this day.

Washington was widely admired for his strong leadership qualities and was unanimously elected president by the Electoral College in the first two national elections. He oversaw the creation of a strong, well-financed national government that maintained neutrality in the French Revolutionary Wars, suppressed the Whiskey Rebellion, and won acceptance among Americans of all types. Washington’s incumbency established many precedents still in use today, such as the cabinet system, the inaugural address, and the title Mr. President. 

One neglected feather in Washington’s cap is his commitment to having the US be a financially sound nation. He knew that no nation ever became strong–or remained strong–on borrowed money. Financial integrity and national power go hand in hand. Thus, he committed the U. S. to paying off all debts incurred in fighting the Revolutionary War. In his Farewell Address, he urged his countrymen to avoid “the accumulation of debt,” and asked them not to throw “upon posterity the [debt] burden, which we ourselves ought to bear.”

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