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This essay just confirms to me how workshy and infantile conservatives have become.

Instead of doing the hard work and building up legions of conservative thinking people to run these institutions, or even creating new institutions to out compete and out think the liberal ones, we'll just smash it all up instead. As if when liberals returned to power they wouldn't recreate the same ones and ensure they'd never be destroyed again. (See what happens when Labour wins the next election and the creep back towards the EU, its already happening now under a Tory government)

How utterly myopic. You sound like a bunch of infantile bolsheviks. On a crusade of idealism.

Just do the bloody hard work for once and out think and out compete the liberals. Stop taking the easy route.

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This is a nice phrase:

"Modern politics is hobbled by a refusal to let go of nostalgic totems from a world long since lost: leftists for a world bound by networks of solidarity and easily-understood class hierarchies, liberals for a still-deep well of societal trust that allowed for individual freedom, and conservatives for the instinctive faith one could place in institutions deeply rooted in traditional values."

It also suggests, Scruton was right: we are all conservative about what we know.

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