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Would a New Conservative 'Fusionism' Help?

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Posted By: DVC, 11/16/2021 9:28:23 PM

What with middle-class Americans starting to reject the woke rule of the educated and credentialed class, does that mean America is ready for a new “fusionism” -- a combination of traditionalism and capitalism of the kind put together by Frank Meyer under the patronage of William F. Buckley half a century ago? That’s what Donald Devine asks at the American Spectator in “Is Conservative Fusionism Dead or Simply Confronting Changing Times?” And he has a book out, The Enduring Tension: Capitalism and the Moral Order, that according to Amazon’s “look inside,” digs into critiques of capitalism and the western social order in Rousseau, Marx, Locke,

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The author's world view is a good one. I might suggest that his bottom group might have a different name, "Losers" or "Fools" might work....but his is less offensive to the losers and fools.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: stablemoney 11/16/2021 10:08:32 PM (No. 979963)
I never see Mises's name mentioned. I wonder why, because he is the best educator on capitalism and socialism that has ever been written, and all in understandable language.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: MDConservative 11/16/2021 11:17:13 PM (No. 979994)
The problem with the "elites" (political, economic and religious) is that their game has always been power, they learned how to play it, and they creatively adapted the game to the new world of widespread technology in the developed world they care most about. Part of that learning was learning how to keep Responsibles in a simmer over issues elites have no interest in solving. Solutions would take away their control. The elites keep the Subordinates between a simmer and full boil over race, economic and social injustice and whatever they can creatively conjure to further stoke the unfairness and futility of it all - with the Responsibles as their target as the racists, haters and oppressors. BLM isn't after the ultra-rich...burning down their communities, the properties of slum lords and liquor store owners. They don't start fires in Beverly Hills or along 5th Avenue. Where would the Kardashians and NBA royalty shop? All this is slathered in propaganda and "influencers" views broadcast by major media. The boobs watch and listen. They react accordingly. it's all they know. We live in a world that Winston Smith couldn't imagine in 1984. And we did it to ourselves, conservatives and liberals...trading liberty for "security" and the false promises of safety and protections. Technology is intrusive, literally all around us with an unblinking eye and untiring ear, and one never knows...never knows.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Strike3 11/17/2021 8:00:54 AM (No. 980180)
Possibly, but getting rid of Biden and the clowns calling the shots in Washington would be a definite improvement. Most any system can be made to work if you don't insert idiots at the top. The inverse is true, even the best structure can be made to fail with aforementioned idiots in charge.
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