{"id":8248,"date":"2018-03-01T05:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=8248"},"modified":"2024-01-28T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T21:47:38","slug":"545-conservatism-conserving-the-statist-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/8248","title":{"rendered":"545 – Conservatism: Conserving the statist quo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party<\/strong> leaders debate once again demonstrates how so many who call themselves \u2018conservative\u2019 will support a party that is \u2018conservative\u2019 in name only<\/strong> and which has no history or evidence of ever having been in favor of freedom or capitalism. This phenomenon is not unique to Ontario, but has become equally applicable to conservatism everywhere in North America.<\/p>\n

This attests to the power of words and language, and to the Left\u2019s successful manipulation of concepts<\/strong> \u2013 usually to mean their opposite. <\/p>\n

Therefore, far from being offered a true electoral choice \u2013 an alternative to the current political movement Leftward \u2013 voters are faced with what George Orwell might have called a \u201cdouble plus good one party system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservatism\u2019s \u2018obituary\u2019<\/strong> was already written \u2013 by Ayn Rand \u2013 over a half century ago, based on the general assumption that conservatives were representatives of the Right (freedom and capitalism). But if this has ever been the case, there is no evidence for it, as our listeners will discover upon hearing her scathing analysis of conservatism as it existed in her time.<\/p>\n

Sadly, her analysis has proven consistently to be true right to the present day, and will undoubtedly remain true so long as conservatives share the Left\u2019s \u2018altruistic\u2019 moral code that denies individualism and freedom in favor of collectivism and state control<\/strong> of everything from the economy to personal choice.<\/p>\n

The natural polarity of Left and Right no longer exists between \u2018liberals\u2019 and \u2018conservatives\u2019 since both camps have staked their claim on the ideals of the Left<\/strong> \u2013 the something for nothing philosophy that has led the world into some of its most horrendous living conditions and conflicts.<\/p>\n

So while others continue on their chosen journey Leftward, we\u2019ll continue to side with freedom and capitalism, described by Ayn Rand as the \u201csystem that in one brief century achieved a level of freedom<\/strong>, of progress<\/strong>, of prosperity<\/strong>, of human happiness<\/strong> unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined.\u201d <\/p>\n

Morality and ethics demand a support of freedom because it is the only political condition that is Just Right \u2013 for the betterment of human living everywhere.<\/p>\n

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