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Entry: The Silence of Father Neuhaus Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_silence_of_father_neuhaus#7829 Post contents: American "conservatism" is, frankly, a complete sham; a total phony. It has always accepted egalitarianism. It has swallowed feminism whole (note how any opposition to women in the military disappeared with the war). Its dedication to traditionalism is highly suspect (its willingness to crusade for the export of gay rights, secularism, and feminism to the religious and traditionalist Islamic world has been noted here). It has shown an appalling willingness to get into bed with modernism and atheism in order to crush Islam (withess the lionization of militant atheist Ayaan Hirsi Ali in "conservative" circles). What it is attached to, without doubt, is a vaguely Objectivist economic viewpoint and militant nationalism - and more even the latter than the former. It is, in short, a pro-imperial movement - one attached to an even sicker and more dangerous vision of Manifest Destiny than its 19th century predecessor. Traditionalism and Christian morality are not crucial issues to the American "conservative" movement. They will gladly sell out the family and the lives of the unborn to whomever promises to kill the most Muslims and expand the empire (or its collection of vassal states) the most aggressively. Rudy Giuliani is the man to do that. That is why he is ahead. Even more awful, the ideas and values of America's Hollywood (which are little more than the ideas and values of Weimar Berlin and the French Revolution) have been transmitted to every square inch of the Earth via film and television, the greatest cultural weapons of mass destruction ever known. We are witnessing a great die-off of cultures, as everywhere on Earth slowly morphs into Los Angeles. Other than Islam, which, punch-drunk and bloodied, nevertheless continues to put up an admirable fight, a few groups like the Amish which are small and powerless enough that the establishment can write them off as crazies and ignore them, and a few isolated die-hards like myself who still stride the wastelands, copies of Chesterton in hand, there are no such things as conservatives anymore. I'm sorry - the awful truth is that Wellington managed to smash Napoleon's army, but in the end, the French Revolution swept the world anyway. Nothing has been able to stop it, merely to slow it down, and it will only die when it collapses under its own weight, as did its bastard offspring, Communism. Don't worry though - it shouldn't take more than a couple centuries for that to all play out. In the mean time, you can console yourself with the fact that good whiskey and cigars are not completely illegal yet. Sent at: 2008 10 07