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Entry: Responding to My Respondents Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/responding_to_my_respondents#23567 Post contents: 1. A "conservative" movement that opposes the Christian Faith is simply not conservative, and doesn't belong on a authentically Real Conservative website. Any political movement that becomes the "useful idiot" of and for another -- the Theocons for the Hamiltonian/Lincolnian Whigs ("Neocons"), The Social Democrats and Greens for the Cultural Marxists, Catholics and Royalists for the Clerical Fascists, and the Paleos for the Browns -- is a movement brain dead and unworthy of serious consideration. 2. To say that someone, some country, or some religion is Left or Right without first defining what Left and Right supposedly mean is at best to speak vapidly. I have said many times "Left/Right" are not only meaningless distinctions but distinctions that obscure reality. Political ideology looks like a Chinese Checkers board, not a spectrum going from left to right. Or tell me whether the following are "Left" or "Right": -- Lew Rockwell -- Hans-Herman Hoppe -- Wilhelm Röpke -- Distributionists -- Hannah Arendt -- Leo Strauss -- Allan Bloom -- the Neoconservatives -- ecologists -- Friedrich Nietzsche -- Leo XIII -- Pius XI These were neither, and to put them on the "Left" or "Right" ignores the "deep structure" of their thought, thought consciously developed <i>against</i> the Left/Right polarity. What is more, if Left means Marxism and Right means fascism, then (1) we Real Conservatives aren't Left or Right either; and (2) the Left is looking pretty Right: Leonard Jeffries and Frances Cress Welsing are racialists, and assorted Black Nationalists and La Raza are simply (so to speak) brothers under the skin to "Right Wing" nationalists. And the Right looks Lefty: e.g. the socialism of Benito and 'Dolf; the anti-capitalist views of own Joe Populist; and the "high tariffs to save jobs" (and thus anti-free market) columnists on this website. Ditto the same columnists lauding Dishonest Abe and his work -- really a Neocon view. This objection (#2) aside, Paul Gottfried writes wisdom today. Sent at: 2008 08 30