The Untraditional Right

     When you reject “conserving” and embrace a “no rules” and reject “muh principles”, you do nothing but hollow yourself out and create a void that is quickly filled with what is readily at hand (i.e. the “praxis” of Critical Theory).   Remember what Sun-Tzu said about those who knew not themselves and you’ll understand how much of an own-goal that all is. As “Liberty Belle” explains, which is quoted in full below due to the limitations of Twitter/X embeds:

These people are bratty children. They’re ignorant of the intellectual traditions & metaphysical foundation that undergirds the American founding. Thus, they aren’t conceptualizing what it would mean for us all if we lose what makes us America. This is no masterclass, it’s a sad indictment of our society & our education.

Delusional like the Left, they think they can take the Constitution & cherry-pick what they want out of it, while disregarding the parts they don’t want. They want to appropriate affects of the American founding, while violating its ethos. They want its benefits, while lacking understanding of its mechanisms.

They have no moral anchor with which to ground their system. It’s all social constructivism. It’s utilitarian pragmatism, & Libido Dominandi— lust for power, & whatever is right or true is whatever is useful for their ends, the truth is evolving & socially constructed.

It’s a rejection of natural law & the universal character of inherent rights (applicable to all men, for all times) in favor of arbitrary application of various rules that suit their ends. It’s a complete rejection of the American founding.

But these young people being seduced by these stupid notions are like children— they cry when things don’t work out for them the way they want (“I don’t care about the Constitution” —> “I got fired for expressing my views, this is an injustice”). This is what children, or people incapable of second-order thinking do.

But, it’s also understandable how we’ve reached this place, when our educational system is put into context.

We aren’t taught what Classical Liberalism is, or its unique American strain. The term “liberal” (when we mean classically liberal) has been conflated with “progressive” (this was done intentionally decades ago), & the Left has had a decades (century, actually)-long head start on eroding American Classical Liberalism, thus deracinating us from our roots. We don’t even know what we have. When a people can be blinded to their birthright, they won’t cry out against its theft.

We need to teach people what it is that we must be fighting to preserve, & to understand how that translates to the things they value, & would mourn the loss of. If people can understand the value of something, they’ll fight for it, & when enough people do this, there will be enough force & momentum to make a difference, & to make the system work for us all.

I see it all the time, people ignorant of what the American founding stands for, & how it came to be, calling for the end of liberalism— while also proclaiming their right to freedom of speech & religion, right to own property, to bear arms & asserting state’s rights. They would cut off their noses to spite their faces.

     When one focuses so monomaniacally on superficial normalcy, they hollow themselves out.