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Entry: A Few More Thoughts Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/a_few_more_thoughts1#4052 Post contents: – That there are only two political positions; – that Right/Left, Conservative/Liberal are terms not obsolete, not absurd, not jejune, not ossified; and instead are essential to understanding, correspond to reality, and so very helpful; – that political positions are to be grafted onto a line running from left to right; – that because one’s position, so grafted, is said to be closer to another’s, one then could find an Honorable Friend there (The opposite may be true: To speak metaphorically, a horse we find beautiful and a chimp ugly. Though the chip is certainly the closest to our species, he appears to be all the same a caricature of ourselves ); – that the television media’s refusing to acknowledge other positions than just “Left/Right” ought be endorsed, or at least acquiesced in; – that if one is Right or Left, all of one’s opponents are to be defamed as the opposite; – That “every boy and every girl born into the world alive/Is either a little Liberal or a little Conservative”; are stupid ideas. Even genuine conservatives (as opposed the faux) can be divided into a. The Blancs: Royalist Cavaliers, Non-Juror Tories, Jacobites, Legitimists, the Blancs d'Espagne, Carlists; De Maistre, Charles I Stuart, Charles X Bourbon, Waugh. The recent webpage on Kirk has two eloquent supporters of this position. b. the Blues: Justus Moeser, High Tories, Burke in his later “Old Whig” phase, Lord Salisbury, Kirk, Scruton, the later Eliot c . the Noirs: Traditionally, the Catholic middle classes, they later in coalition with Protestants. For convenience’s sake, in this group are the Aristoteleans, various Neo-Thomist groupings, and Leo XIII Catholics. Here belongs Christdemokratie; its International’s use of “orange” need be avoided, for reasons obvious to the English-speaking. d. and perhaps on the outer orbit of the conservative solar system, the Yellows (“Jaunes”): the non-Marxist and non-Socialist farm-labor movement, found in France in the early 1900s, in the American Populists of the 1890s, and in the Jeffersonians of the 1790s. Sent at: 2008 09 07