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- From: wbralick@afit.af.mil (Will Bralick)
- Subject: Re: Welcome to alt.conservative.forum
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.192826.3480@afit.af.mil>
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- References: <1992Dec18.170305.11748@anasazi.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:28:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec18.170305.11748@anasazi.com> john@anasazi.com (John R. Moore) writes:
- | This new group was created to provide a forum for conservative ideas. In
- | that sense, it is a counterpart to talk.politics.progressive, and pehaps
- | at some time should become talk.politics.conservative.
-
- So much for the moderation/anti-moderation debate ;-) The new alt group
- has not yet propagated this far and so I will cross post to Mr. Limbaugh's
- group until it does so. In keeping with the purpose of this group I will
- ignore flamy flapdoodle from all parties (unless it pleases me to ridicule
- them). In any case, I will not waste my time trading tirades with loony
- liberal losers -- life will eventually educate even them far better than
- can man.
-
- There are at least three classifications of thinking conservatives --
- libertarian conservatives (characterized by a small-government perspec-
- tive including varying degrees of the social view that government should
- just keep us from killing each other, but otherwise stay out of our lives),
- neo-conservatives (the paradigmatic neocon is an ex-60's radical who became
- disenchanted with the ``movement'' after seeing that liberal ``solutions''
- do not work -- can be more interventionist abroad than the libertarian
- conservative), and paleo (or classical) conservatives (characterized by
- a respect for tradition -- believes that law should not only prevent us
- from killing each other but should also promote virtue and punish vice).
- Would anybody like to suggest more categories? Feel free to quibble with
- my thumbnail sketches above.
-
- Personally, I have moved over the years from being a classical conservative
- to the libertarian conservative and now back to the classical conservative
- position where I seem to have settled.
-
-
- Now, why don't we all go out and get a copy of Russell Kirk's _The Con-
- servative Mind_ and we can read it a chapter-at-a-time and then discuss
- it here.
-
-
- Regards,
-
- --
-
- Will Bralick Speaking _only_ for myself.
-
- Standard disclaimers apply. Void where prohibitted by law.
-