It may be inferred again that the present movement for women's rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent: Northern conservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. . . . Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its bark is worse than its bite, and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now serves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it in wind, and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip. No doubt, after a few years, when women's suffrage shall have become an accomplished fact, conservatism will tacitly admit it into its creed, and thenceforward plume itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too shall have been won, it will be heard declaring that the integrity of the American Constitution requires at least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it will assume, with great dignity, its final position.
Date: February 14th, 2019 1:49 PM Author: jade native
Uh, he was Stonewall Jackson’s chief of staff despite being a chaplain:
“Dabney, whose wife was a third cousin to Stonewall Jackson's wife, participated in the Civil War: during the summer of 1861 he was chaplain of the 18th Virginia Infantry in the Confederate army, and in the following year was chief of staff to Jackson during the Valley Campaign and the Seven Days Battles.
Date: February 17th, 2019 10:40 AM Author: Stubborn Nibblets
Dabney defended the biblical "righteousness" of slavery, and opposed public schools. In the 1870s, he wrote that it was unjust to tax "oppressed" white people to provide "pretended education to the brats of black paupers". He rejected "the Yankee theory of popular state education" and democratic government itself, which interfered with the liberty of the South.
Date: August 1st, 2018 12:03 PM Author: Lascivious coral garrison
It's a low IQ tell to believe that US politics have changed dramatically in character over the last 150 years. The issue may change, but the attitudes, tactics and slogans have not.
Date: February 14th, 2019 1:03 PM Author: Ungodly Coldplay Fan Ladyboy
"American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. . . . Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its �bark is worse than its bite,� and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now serves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it �in wind,� and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip."
Date: May 11th, 2019 10:11 AM Author: boyish snowy crotch
Date: May 10th, 2019 3:30 PM
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I mean, I have mixed feelings on him. He is fighting the "ban anyone not a shitlib from colleges" effort so that's a huge plus. He seems to attract people to his lectures.
Date: June 19th, 2019 11:20 PM Author: boyish snowy crotch
jfc at trump
Date: June 19th, 2019 6:04 PM
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he sounded ridiculous when he ranted about "socialism" and then turned around and ranted about "protecting social security." he's going full boomer this time around. we'll see if that's enough.
Date: June 25th, 2019 6:10 AM Author: boyish snowy crotch
JFC
Date: June 25th, 2019 2:23 AM
Author: buy bitcoin
An area with a yuge Hispanic population obviously
I'm in line with xo on many (most?) things. Nationalism, anti-immigration, voted Trump, clown world, we're Rome before the fall, shitlibbery is a cancer and the moral decay and decadence while doesn't bother me at an individual level is horrific when paraded and celebrated to the degree it is today, I don't care about abortion or gay marriage except as symptoms of societal decline (generally pro-choice and pro-gay marriage though, only find it hard to take either position now because of the association with shitlibs)
I, for one, applaud Cory booker on this savvy political maneuver and hope all other democratic candidates will follow suit, preferably closer to November 2020 so that people remember this humanitarianism at the polls.
Date: July 7th, 2019 11:56 AM Author: Underhanded Parlor Mad-dog Skullcap
We basically live in a cyberpunk version of late 1910s America, only with far greater individual emphasis on degeneracy and the steel/oil barons replaced with big tech barons
ZIRP created the greatest asset and debt bubble since the 1920s. Toxic conspicuous consumption is fueled by targeted advertising. Widespread depravity is fueled by social media addiction, clickbait and "like" culture.
Next stop: the crash, the Second Great Depression, and the potential rise of the American Maoists.
before a major European government or the US defaults on its debt, and/or the petrodollar goes away, causing the intrinsic value of the fiat dollar to collapse.
Date: July 12th, 2019 9:57 AM Author: Swashbuckling Stage Antidepressant Drug
On social/cultural issues, sure. It's been a rout. But conservative ideas did win out in many areas of economic policy, criminal justice, foreign policy, and military deterrence.
Date: July 12th, 2019 12:11 PM Author: Swashbuckling Stage Antidepressant Drug
I understand your point. Of course liberal/conservative definitions are always fuzzy. I think if there's one group within the traditional conservative coalition that's won some big victories it's the "country club" conservatives/republicans.
Today, polling shows the highest level of support for free trade agreements and lowest for tariffs than ever before. Unions are dying and even young leftists put little focus on trade unionism. The "socialists" of our time do not want government ownership of the means of production and go out of their way to say they aren't associated with the command-style economies of the old eastern bloc. They want Denmark, a market-oriented country with free trade and taxation that supports a social safety net. That's a far cry from the leftist defense and sympathy for the USSR back in the olden days or even the labor movements of the past.
I'd argue that conservatives won on policing and sentencing. Modern policing (acceptance of lots of police power and constant surveillance), sentencing (murderers get big sentences and even life; repeat offenders treated more harshly; little thought to rehabilitation), and the criminal justice system resembles more closely the ideas espoused by conservatives in the early 20th century through the 70's than it does the reformers/liberals of those times.
I could go on and on with the topics we both mentioned. On the whole I'd say certain segments of the conservative movement have shaped american post-ww2 American policy and that it'd be wrong to argue that they are a perennial loser.
Date: October 23rd, 2019 11:34 AM Author: gaped titillating pistol chad
I’ve never thought of myself as a conservative but if I did I would have to hang my head and walk home in shame after reading this. Such a devastatingly accurate summation.
Date: March 8th, 2020 3:08 PM Author: Bisexual Theatre
Author of the quote wanted to flee to Brazil because the North won
Yet even in Virginia immigration appeared to be a hot topic of conversation, if not outright action. The prominent Virginian Robert Lewis Dabney also came around to thinking emigration would be the best, or only, option under a Yankee government. He had initially been hesitant on the matter, but by January 1866 Dabney was plainly interested in leaving the South and recognized a growing interest within the state. He saw “the steady and extensive leavening of the mind of our people, with the desire for emigration.” He was not convinced that Mexico would be the optimal location since it was "too near the Yankees" and the imperial government was not completely established. Brazil, on the other hand, with its stable monarchy and slave plantatione conomy, seemed more promising to him. Dabney had a point. Brazil turned out to be the second-biggest destiniation for southern migration and played a significant role in expanding the scope of colonization under the direction of former top Confederate officials.
White southern migrants also made their way to Honduras, Venezuela and even to Egypt after the Civil War.
Date: July 11th, 2020 3:10 PM Author: boyish snowy crotch
Why fight? Let them lecture us in corporate conference rooms and deride us on social media. None of that matters, we will never become like them, and they cannot take away our freedom of thought.
Date: March 31st, 2023 12:24 AM Author: Nighttime carnelian mexican
you can see the normalization of transsexualism occurring before our eyes. the faux right-wing outrage following by globohomo pushing it and meme'ing it in the media for a couple years until it gets accepted. same gameplan they used for homosexuality and everything else, same responses, its all so tiring.