Wow. Sorry for any possible innuendos, but…this is right up my alley. The seeming contradiction I live in.
My church has a document called “The Family-A Proclamation to the World.” Basically outlining so much of what was in this Solid Ground podcast. So many in my circles just view the Proclamation as doctrine that can easily change or that it’s just irrelevant bigotry. But for so long, I’ve felt like there’s something evolutionary and foundational to our society about marriage between a man and a woman and the children that can be part of that union.
I mean, I don’t know where this puts me. I feel very little desire to marry a woman and would rather be in a (preferably celibate) partnership with a man who shares my beliefs and perspectives (again, the seeming contradiction I live in). But I can’t deny the stirrings I’ve had about the importance of the nuclear family in society. I believe people who have a “non-traditional” situation can still support the ideal.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-radical-center/id1677434207?i=1000703620274
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Our very own @YayRain (after having imbibed some golden nectar), shares with us yet one more problem with CRT....
Happy Easter weekend to any to celebrate.
You can see the side of my bald head at 3:10 and then me again at 6:05. On the right. 🤣
I just hope he doesn't go in the other direction via overreach, say in terms of overestricting word usage (and threatening to pull funds), or suing or threatening to pull licenses for media companies if he doesn't like what they are saying (except in cases of libel or slander). I wasn't keen, either, on keeping the AP out for not using Gulf of America.
There are multiple threads from some things Chris posted recently, but this caught my eye
From Jonah Goldberg:
I get it. Thanks for the response. Just a few points:
1) I watched as many on the right went from demonizing Saul Alinsky to respecting, to outright envying and wanting to emulate him. Many of those people stopped being conservative or classically liberal in the process. Steve Bannon, Dinesh, etc.
2) Your argument feels very similar and I think poses similar risks. Adopting illiberal means to achieve liberal or even just "good" ends is not a remotely new idea. It is in fact one of the oldest ideas in politics. And it doesn't have a very good track record.
3) One reason for that is that illiberal means tend to become illiberal ends in the hearts of the people employing them.
4) This is a real danger from where I sit because an American conservatism that doesn't seek to conserve "classical liberalism" isn't meaningfully conservative anymore. American conservatism is about more than classical ...
