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Entry: Militarism and Conservatism: Can this Marriage be Saved? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/militarism_and_conservatism_can_this_marriage_be_saved#18092 Post contents: The statement "War is the Health of the State" is well known and as a result of the Cold War Shift to Big Government Conservatism "vs." Big Government Liberalism, the State has become an uber Bureaucrat-warrior. Both Conservatism and Liberalism , in this milieu, are dead letters and the basic dialectic of the lapsed Republic has been long silenced. It is why Conventional Wisdom so easily depicts the conservative principles of Ron Paul as quackery. It is why modern popular culture is a mile wide and an 1/8" thick. As a result, we have lost the separation of powers and the Office of the Executive has grown a State Bureaucracy that makes Kafka look but a piker. Elections are an elaborate show, a Potemkin trade show and every 4-8 years we hear about change only to see the Bureaucracy continue to entrench, spend borrowed money and clamp on the weakly pumping jugular of the lapsed Republic like a vampire. Parsing of the words "conservative" and "liberal" in politics today is about as worthwhile as discussing "democracy" in the same breath as one discusses the actions of the American War-State. Increasingly, it will make as little sense to discuss prosperity and quality of life in the 50 states of the lapsed Republic. We are a Neo-Weimar, Banana Republic in training. The Bureaucracy is like a Fat Man that can no loner see his toes nor his genitals and so it has confined itself to bed and simply accretes and consumes with no sense of pleasure beyond steady consumption. At some point, the Slob will expire and they'll have to punch a hole in the wall to cart the smelly carcass out. When the sordid nest finally airs out, perhaps a discussion of 'conservatism" and "liberalism" will be edifying. Until then , one is obviously best served by hanging on the camp train following the war mongers on their deathly rounds. Sent at: 2008 11 21