Category Archives: Conservatism

Migration destroying Australia

One is either deluded or of a subversive mind to think every culture in the world is compatible with Australia’s foundational British Isles origins. The tragic experience of many European countries with indiscriminately opened their borders should be a salutary lesson about the poison of cultural diversity.

The current Albanese government shows it has not learned or is even open to listening. Or could it be that Prime Minister Albanese, deeply influenced by socialist theory, wants to destroy those British Isles foundations?

Woke Mornington Peninsula Council cancels Australia Day

It was not so many years ago in Mornington on the Mornington Peninsula that a huge, festive parade would process down Main Street to the bay to celebrate the foundation of the nation of Australia on the 26th of January 1788. There would be floats, some piled with excited kids, representing a variety of clubs, associations, and businesses. It was a thoroughly enjoyable family day.

But it was all too white for the people who gained control of the Mornington Peninsula Council. Too many white kiddies around. The parade had to go.

I will stroll down to the bay end of Main Street to see if there’s any vestige of that former celebration. I will then visit the council’s offices at Mornington, Somerville, Hastings, and Rosebud, where the councillors’ political propensities are on full display.

That complete dunce, Steve Witkoff

Billionaire Steve Witkoff, one of Trump’s band of traitors, tried to present that dribbling psychopath Vladimir Putin as a believing, practising Christian by claiming he (Putin) scurried along to a church (Orthodox) to light a thanksgiving candle when Trump was almost assassinated.

What would dunce Witkoff have now to say about Putin’s Christian credentials after that psychopath sent two Eskander antiballistic missiles to destroy Christians going to the Palm Sunday ceremonies, among whom were women and children?

Trump should give up his charade about wanting peace in Ukraine and tell the truth. In truth, he wants a deal to satiate his inveterate greed and give his psychopath mate in the Kremlin an advantage in a war the dribbling psychopath is losing.

Trump’s Ukraine policy is as treacherous as anything found in the history of conflict.

Tony Abbott on Trump

It’s a great tribute to Tony Abbott that he nailed Trump’s delusions immediately. He showed once again how accurate his true conservative judgment is.

Those who fancy themselves conservative and support Trump are just as delusional as Trump.

Conservatives (like me) cheered Trump in his undertaking to take down the woke establishment. Unfortunately, Trump’s ‘assessment’ and a true (Burkean) conservative’s assessment of Putin’s war were coincidental. Trump has shown he is motivated by power and greed, not by the right order of things.

Ukraine: Trump is completely off his rocker

As I said a few comments ago, it is difficult to believe that someone in possession of their reason could offer Trump’s assessment of the Russia-Ukraine war.

It is delusionary in the extreme.

It is all the more urgent for the rest of the West to support Ukraine in its resistance to the psychopathic homicidal dictator who rules Russia.

We must shout our continued support for Zelensky and Ukraine and provide all the military equipment they need.

Australia must step up our support.

Jake Broe’s video is recommended for an accurate assessment of Trump’s Russia-Ukraine craziness although I think he bashes the fascist angle more than is proper. Craziness and delusion are a better explanation than fascism.

NOTE: It is fallacious to claim that a person who is delusional in one respect is delusional in all respects. Trump’s mandate was to destroy the left’s hegemony over the West. As long as he continues to take down the woke dictatorship, he is satisfying that mandate.

Natural Law, Social Justice, and the Crisis of Liberty in the West

March 10, 2017, Ryan T. Anderson

The essay below by Ryan T. Anderson on The Witherspoon Institute website is an excellent piece on the natural law. Edmund Burke outlined similar ideas about the duties inherent in man’s nature. See Edmund Burke on what it means to be a people.

Since I have just said a few words on natural law and economic freedom, I want to say a few words about a natural law conception of social justice and how it can help us now. Some people think social justice is a twentieth century invention of left-leaning thinkers, but this starts the history of social justice midstream. To understand its true meaning, we must look farther back to its real historical origins.

The first known use of the phrase “social justice” was by a Jesuit Thomist, Luigi Taparelli, in his multivolume work published between 1840 and 1843 titled Saggio teoretico di dritto naturale appoggiato sul fatto (A Theoretical Treatise on Natural Law Resting on Fact). I want to emphasize two arguments that Taparelli highlighted by coining the new phrase “social justice”: first, that man is social by nature and belongs to many societies and, second, that man has natural duties to others in justice.

Read the rest here . . .

REPUTATION, REASON AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT

Discussion of Chapter Six, ‘Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project’, Second Part on ‘Thought’ of Jesse Norman’s book EDMUND BURKE: PHILOSOPHER, POLITICIAN AND PROPHET

Chapter Six, ‘Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project’ begins the Second Part on ‘Thought’ of Jesse Norman’s book Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician And Prophet. Norman surveys the reaction to Burke’s writings and speeches following Burke’s death in 1797. He cites the views of many well-known historical figures in addition to lesser known names in the fields of academia, politics and literature. His conclusion, with which one should readily agree even on a brief reading of the opinions, is that there was much ‘bipartisan esteem’ of Burke’s thought.   ‘Amid the ferment of early nineteenth century social, economic and political change,’ he says, ‘many different writers were able over time to find ideas of enduring value within Burke.’ (KL 2320)

‘In the twentieth century,’ he continues, ‘Burke was pressed into service on numerous occasions.’ Those occasions were the fight against communism during the Cold War (the 1950s and 1960s) and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It was Burke’s anti-totalitarian rhetoric that American conservatives drew on to drive forward their fight against communism, which represented all forms of totalitarianism. Norman’s tendentious tone here makes it clear he is not convinced of there being any justification for this service. He ends the survey with the following rather puzzling comment.

There has been a persistent desire by some conservative writers to relocate Burke away from a Lockean framework of natural rights and find in him a specifically Christian, indeed Thomist, doctrine of natural law. (KL 2349)

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