people keep telling me dreher is a serious thinker but i read this and see a hysterical reactionary who denounces everything he disagrees with as some species of “totalitarianism”https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/language-memory-soft-totalitarianism-live-not-by-lies/ …
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It's like these serious thinkers are apologists protecting something...but what. could. it. be? /extreme sarcasm font They don't need to be called "the right." They are monarchists. Hierarchists. Partirarchists. Loyalists. For some, the Great Chain of Being never died.
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Slippery slope fallacies everywhere which are dependent upon ill-founded assumptions that political spectra exist whereby these moderate reforms exist as steps on a road towards a great evil in their eyes.
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Just look at Buckley, who is still worshipped by American conservatives as a paragon of virtue. The guy took years to even admit racism existed in his contemporary society.
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By the time the conservatives finally admitted racism existed, they started telling us racism was over.
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The "slippery slope" solved: make it slope the other way!
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Yes. This should be the prima facie assumption at this point.
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The Chicago School Of Economics used this reasoning to work for actual totalitarian regimes like Pinochet. It was total negative reasoning. Stop socialism and free market is your only choice. If socialism came from democracy then no democracy is good.
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