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Entry: The Pragmatism of Russell Kirk Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_pragmatism_of_russell_kirk#3638 Post contents: "the average man on the street and the actual society on the ground was not liberal." Red has made an important observation, and I would only change the word-choice. If by "liberal" he means "socialist" or "Cultural Marxist" he is certainly correct. On the other hand, The Great Satan (FDR) taught Americans to think that if they have a problem, the government (what Americans mean by "the state") can solve it. More often than not, it can't. For example. We've paid higher gas taxes and car taxes for the past 30 years, with the understanding that this money would be used to repair bridges, among transport needs. It didn't go there. The politicians spent it on welfare, individual and corporate, to buy votes. So now our bridges are falling down. Sent at: 2008 10 07