i'm hooting with laughter at the following by wawison today:
”Crunchy” conservatism ... does not share compassionate conservatism’s assumptions about the “role of government,” since it does not propose much in the way of a role for government to remedy the ills it describes"
uh, not really. in his book, dreher proposed all kinds of roles for government, repeatedly saying we should have regulations for this and that, but did so in such a lazy, non-specific manner that one can credibly argue that the book "didn't propose much in the way of a role for government". sadly for wawison, his point is not so much argument disputing that statism is inherent in crunchy conservatism (talk about "merely obvious") as it is an idictment of dreher's shallow argumentation.
of course, i should be writing this on wawison's blog, but then i would have to register over there, and what a bore that would be.
nice blog
ReplyDeleteso are they all going to be red now? (sorry i mean RED.)
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or is it (RED)
ReplyDeletei'm hooting with laughter at the following by wawison today:
ReplyDelete”Crunchy” conservatism ... does not share compassionate conservatism’s assumptions about the “role of government,” since it does not propose much in the way of a role for government to remedy the ills it describes"
uh, not really. in his book, dreher proposed all kinds of roles for government, repeatedly saying we should have regulations for this and that, but did so in such a lazy, non-specific manner that one can credibly argue that the book "didn't propose much in the way of a role for government". sadly for wawison, his point is not so much argument disputing that statism is inherent in crunchy conservatism (talk about "merely obvious") as it is an idictment of dreher's shallow argumentation.
of course, i should be writing this on wawison's blog, but then i would have to register over there, and what a bore that would be.
Does anyone think "he's found what he is looking for"?
ReplyDeleteThere's many lost, but tell me who has won?
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