is 'conservatism' dead?

[jah_yout]

i saw an article this morning that suggested so...
personally i don't think so;
i think at some point it will come back under code words and issues.
i can't see newt gingrich and these guys put out to pasture...i think they are plotting a comeback

[Tuff Gong]

Re: is 'conservatism' dead?

.....see Lush!

[RichD]

Re: is 'conservatism' dead?

this is what is killed it....<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Over the next 25 years there grew up a new generation of conservative writers who cultivated none of their elders' intellectual virtues — indeed, who saw themselves as counter-intellectuals. Most are well-educated and many have attended Ivy League universities; in fact, one of the masterminds of the Palin nomination was once a Harvard professor. But their function within the conservative movement is no longer to educate and ennoble a populist political tendency, it is to defend that tendency against the supposedly monolithic and uniformly hostile educated classes. They mock the advice of Nobel Prize-winning economists and praise the financial acumen of plumbers and builders. They ridicule ambassadors and diplomats while promoting jingoistic journalists who have never lived abroad and speak no foreign languages. And with the rise of shock radio and television, they have found a large, popular audience that eagerly absorbs their contempt for intellectual elites. They hoped to shape that audience, but the truth is that their audience has now shaped them.</div></div>

[Boricua_papi]

Re: is 'conservatism' dead?

It's just evolving into jingoism once espoused by Theodore Roosevelt.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: is 'conservatism' dead?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: jah yout</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i saw an article this morning that suggested so...
personally i don't think so;
i think at some point it will come back under code words and issues.
i can't see newt gingrich and these guys put out to pasture...i think they are plotting a comeback </div></div>The question that is more appropriate woyld be with regards to the economic phylosophy of Reganomics. Now that is dead and as I stated when Regan,and Friedman died,within this decade their fraudulent economic theory that has taken hold of wporld finance will be seen for what ir is. downroght fraud. Now that will be very dead, atleast untill the memory of the people loose all rexleection of what we will be going through for ar least another year.