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2007-03-19 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by ryuge 2007-03-19 07:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I am convinced that Conservatives are going to have to get UGLY if we are going to even halt the tide of Socialism, let alone, turn back its already substantial gains. It wouldn't even be where it is today if Conservatives had fought back hard and taken off the blinders.

We are guilty of our own form of denial, and when the bill comes due, it is going to be a monster. Unless of course we just continue to do what we've been doing. I believe there needs to be less talk and more action, we know who the enemies are. I find myself these days, (more often than I like to think about) contemplating just what is going to set the push back into motion, and what the outcome will be.

Have we gotten to the ammo-box stage yet? If not, when.

Posted by Chiper Threreger8956 2007-03-19 10:07|| 2007-03-19 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 First, all publicly funded arts and social sciences departments have to be closed and their faculty fired. Second, the boards of private universities have to insist their vast endowments be spent on advancing civilization and not sedition. Third, and perhaps most important, laws against treason and sedition - ancient laws with an ancient purpose - need to be rigorously and ruthlessly enforced. If there is no consequence for sedition, indeed if sedition is rewarded with tenure, then sedition we will have.

I agree things may have to get ugly. Arm yourselves with a side-arm and the Good Book (take your pick for the last one: I suggest "Starship Troopers" or "Citizen of the Galaxy" though Scripture is also an option).

Posted by Excalibur 2007-03-19 10:43|| 2007-03-19 10:43|| Front Page Top

#3 Excal - What you suggest is desirable, but first do the possible. When your university calls or writes for money, tell them no, and why, in writing. Then take the money you would have given them and send it somewhere else - for instance Hillsdale College, or Texas A & M, and tell them why.

Money talks. If there are enough of us, it will speak loudly. If there are not, then we don't matter, and nothing else would work anyway.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-03-19 13:32|| 2007-03-19 13:32|| Front Page Top

#4 First, all publicly funded arts and social sciences departments have to be closed and their faculty fired.

I would actually limit the recommendation to Departments of -Studies. You get rid of these units of Identity Politics Uber Alles, you save budget money for the Sciences and the (classical) Liberal Arts such as Literature, Classics, and so forth--even and especially the works of the now-dreaded Dead White European Male.

Posted by eLarson 2007-03-19 14:45|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-03-19 14:45|| Front Page Top

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