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Entry: A Paleo Epitaph Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_paleo_epitaph#22791 Post contents: They cynicism and nay-saying here, while understandable given past paleocon failures, is uncalled for. Remember three things: 1) Right now, there is no conservative representation. The Bushies/Neocons have, like the Dems, essentially forsaken all conservative principles (including Christianity) and basically decided to use government largesse to buy loyalties and elections. So we have two parties fighting it out for the parasitically-minded constituencies. 2) Big government/Big business is in a fatal struggle with Christianity. Which means that not only are conservatives going unrepresented, but so are Christians. This goes to Gottfried’s point of the debilitating internecine struggle between committed Christian Catholics and committed Christian Protestants, which should be forsaken to unite all under the Christian-ethos banner. 3) America is now a multi-racial, multi-cultural country of competing tribes. Only Christianity can unite the different races; government never will. Am I calling for paleocon-libertarians to play the Christian card? Damn right I am. Now this will bring out the usual big business/big government/Neocon/Neolib catcalls of “anti-Semitism,” “intolerance,” “Medievalism,” “Church-state intrusion,” etc etc, but so what? The political dynamic in this country today isn’t your father’s Buick. The country is falling apart, people are getting scarred and desperate and looking for a return to original principles. The federal government and its various fascist/welfare constituencies are responsible for the decline of America, and many people sense this. Western (Christian) civilization has endured because it has brought stability and order from chaos, something the self-worshipping federal government can never hope to do. Paleocons have always had the Christian card; they’ve just lacked the balls to play it. That must change; that will change. Sent at: 2008 05 15