{"id":11897,"date":"2021-03-18T05:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=11897"},"modified":"2021-03-24T22:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T02:57:29","slug":"698-speaking-conservatively-about-conservatives-and-freedom-salim-mansur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/11897","title":{"rendered":"698 – Speaking conservatively about conservatives and freedom | Salim Mansur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cAre conservatives stupid?\u201d That’s just one of the uncomfortable questions fielded by our \u2018conservative\u2019 guest Salim Mansur<\/strong>, professor emeritus of political science at the University of Western Ontario.<\/p>\n

At a time when the coronavirus tyranny continues unabated, massive protests against lockdowns and other controls on personal association similarly continue unabated. But these protests are being directed against the very politicians and political parties keeping everyone locked down – namely, every party in parliament.<\/p>\n

Having no effective representation on the political front, the voices of freedom may be heard, but not heeded, and are indeed condemned. As the official opposition in Canada, the CPC has offered no opposition to the Liberal fascist agenda<\/strong>, despite the party\u2019s name. And with the word \u2018conservative\u2019 in the party name, who can blame unsuspecting conservative initiates from voting for \u2018their\u2019 party? <\/p>\n

As the old saying goes: \u201cFool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.\u201d But what is one to say about those \u2018conservatives\u2019 who allow themselves to be repeatedly fooled by a \u2018conservative\u2019 party that isn\u2019t?<\/strong> How does one account for their failure to vote for political parties that do value freedom and individualism, simply because those parties may be \u2018new\u2019 or \u2018cannot win\u2019 an election?<\/p>\n

And what is to be \u2018won\u2019 when \u2018winning\u2019 an election still means losing one\u2019s freedom? These are among the many questions that all those who have fallen into the conservative trap – whether ‘conservatives\u2019 or not \u2013 must consider. If winning freedom instead of elections is ever to become their objective, they must choose from other options that do not bear the name \u2018conservative.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Conservatism \u201cis not an ideology but an attitude towards life and politics,\u201d argues Salim.<\/strong> Rather than recoil from the label, he insists that conservatives should be proud \u2018reactionaries\u2019<\/strong> \u2013 \u2018reacting\u2019 against the artificial and unreal ideologies of the Left that are destructive to the natural and real condition of freedom. But in supporting a political party simply because it calls itself \u2018conservative,\u2019 they are supporting a \u2018castle of lies.\u2019<\/p>\n

Until more voters who value freedom come to understand that they\u2019re Just Right \u2013 and choose political candidates who also are \u2013 there\u2019s only one political direction \u2018Left\u2019 for everyone.<\/p>\n

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The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) is nowhere to be seen on the freedom front. Yet, freedom-loving conservatives repeatedly vote for \u2013 and are routinely disappointed by \u2013 this party that has ever moved Leftward and is now virtually indistinguishable from the Liberal Party of Canada. \u201cAre conservatives stupid?\u201d That’s just one of the uncomfortable [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,51,59,3134,111,596,28,295,165,6,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-conservatism","category-free-speech","category-globalism","category-governance","category-ideas","category-latest","category-liberalism","category-political-parties","category-politics","category-reality","category-reason","issues-conservatism","issues-conservative-party-of-canada","issues-freedom","personalities-maxime-bernier","category-12-id","category-51-id","category-59-id","category-3134-id","category-111-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-295-id","category-165-id","category-6-id","category-3-id","category-4-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11897"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11909,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11897\/revisions\/11909"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}