Reply #14: now you're getting it. and how strange it is for old anti-communists [View All]

[kodi]

In dealing with the Right, even the most articulate, and reading their most articulate essays I'm constantly impressed with their lack of substance. They seem to be without principles, and calling what guides them a philosophy seems to be giving them far more distinction than they deserve.

Rather their thought seems to be nothing more than crumbs and shards raked together from various sources-- Hobbes, Locke, Smith (invisible hand leading towards utopia), Marx (economic determinism),
Freud, where they get their constant urge to play on middle class fear, and numerous others and shaped together into a formless mass which they mold to the desired situation. There is no philosophical system on the right, rather only cynical opportunism mascarading as coherent thought, a fig leaf of virtue to hide their whoring ways.

I have no respect for them because they have no sense of shame. They are more akin to the Bolsheviks of Russia than to anything American (that is the reason that "Busheviks" appeals to me so much). For them everything comes down to attaining and retaining power and cashing in, nothing more.

It is not that the Right, or "conservative" is a dirty word, rather that it exemplifies a position of no coherent philosophy, except pure, unbridled greed.

Gee, just like Friedman's!