9 May, 2018

Robert Lewis Dabney on the Folly of Conservatism

Posted by Socrates in conservatism, conservatives, Socrates, voting, women, women and 'equality', women voting at 1:09 pm | Permanent Link

(If you’re just a conservative, you’re playing patty-cake in the sandbox. Grow up)

“It may be inferred again that the present movement for women’s rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only opponent: Northern conservatism. This is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. . . . Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its “bark is worse than its bite,” and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now serves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip. No doubt, after a few years, when women’s suffrage shall have become an accomplished fact, conservatism will tacitly admit it into its creed, and thenceforward plume itself upon its wise firmness in opposing with similar weapons the extreme of baby suffrage; and when that too shall have been won, it will be heard declaring that the integrity of the American Constitution requires at least the refusal of suffrage to asses. There it will assume, with great dignity, its final position.”

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  • 4 Responses to “Robert Lewis Dabney on the Folly of Conservatism”

    1. fd Says:

      Conservatives don’t have the courage of their conviction. And that is why liberals kick their …

    2. fd Says:

      Conservative to Mister Dabney: I resent your words, sir. I’m a good conservative. I drink milk and collect postage stamps.”

    3. Sri Sreggin Das, Mystic Yogi of the Kali Yuga Says:

      This Southern Christian gentleman, who served the Confederate Stonewall Jackson, spoke the truth, but who there is to hear his words?

      Only the trash driven by the wind, across the desolate parking lots of the inner-city ghettoes and the sterile college campuses.

    4. kerdasi amaq Says:

      Cuckservative’s believe that stabbing themselves in the back, every chance they get, is the best way of defending their interests from their progressive enemies.