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Perhaps you can’t blame them, young or old. They see America threatened, and they want to defend their country — want to band together to serve and protect their country.
Terrific! Conservatism lives! Of course there are battles still, and unlimited battles ahead — and there always will be: but now there are warriors to match.
But the Movement — Bill Buckley’s Movement, the struggle of the few, the happy few, the band of brothers — is over. It ended in 1980, when Ronald Reagan was elected president.
Here’s the real test of whether the Conservative Movement still exists. How big a crowd can you give a St. Crispin’s Day speech to before it stops being a St. Crispin’s Day speech?
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Dick Bishirjian | 7.10.10 @ 5:07PM
I think Dan Oliver has a point--a very good one--but now what?
We must think in terms other than "movements"--which are essentially ideological--and in terms of culture, personal renewal, and recovery of conscioiusness.
Over 75 years Americans have lost consciousness of their history, the philosophy of the Founders of the Constitution, the experience of transcendence, and their mortality.
As a result--and given a little help from a freak economic crisis--we have a President of the United States who is a socialist and who shares nothing with the Western philosophic tradition.
As a result, we are on a sinking ship with likley economic chaos and confiscatory regulations in store for ever American.
Bill Buckley, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan and others before them saw it coming, and now--it's here.