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Heath, you seem like a wonderful person. I believe your morals & ethics drive you and I’m buoyed by it. If we were to meet, I suspect we could have an excellent conversation about conservatism and why it was never what you believe it is, or what I believed it was. https://twitter.com/heathmayo/status/1285039714031067137
And afterward, I’d hope that we might each walk away considering earnestly what each other had said.
We will never have that chance but I would like to challenge you to explore the fallacies which I now am able to see in the foundations of conservatism, but which I previously
We will never have that chance but I would like to challenge you to explore the fallacies which I now am able to see in the foundations of conservatism, but which I previously
Could or would not, out of loyalty to my understanding of conscientious conservatism.
2016 challenged me to remove the shades from my eyes. I thought my principles were enough that I could explain away the inconsistencies & the flaws of traditionalism occupying Conservatism.
2016 challenged me to remove the shades from my eyes. I thought my principles were enough that I could explain away the inconsistencies & the flaws of traditionalism occupying Conservatism.
Those shades make everything look prettier than than it is, hide the flaws & soothe morality’s disquiet about a movement clearly based on maintaining privilege, power & hierarchy rather than incentivizing achievement on what you say is a level playing field-
which has never existed for all people.
If you believe in the power of work, effort, achievement and excellence, then you will need to find a solution for the impediments which currently exclude people not favored by race, gender, sexual orientation, creed or sufficient means.
If you believe in the power of work, effort, achievement and excellence, then you will need to find a solution for the impediments which currently exclude people not favored by race, gender, sexual orientation, creed or sufficient means.
Else you will merely be paying lip service to the people who need the playing field actually leveled & you will just spend your years self-mollifying a disquiet about which your conscience pricks you.
I know, because I found myself in a similar position in 2016 struggling with whether to reject being a conscientious Republican or becoming an ex-Republican Independent who longer has water to carry for any political party or hypocritical philosophical movement.
I believe I chose the right path.
I wish you well on yours.
I wish you well on yours.
