{"id":7869,"date":"2012-10-11T08:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7869"},"modified":"2012-10-11T08:08:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T08:08:28","slug":"the-diversity-of-conservatism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-diversity-of-conservatism\/","title":{"rendered":"The diversity of conservatism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The American Conservative<\/i> has an interesting piece up on the redoubtable John Randolph, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/who-was-john-randolph\/\">Who Was John Randolph?<\/a>. This part spoke to me:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The danger of Buckley\u2019s effort to construct a tradition is that it slowly became a template. Anyone who doesn\u2019t match the specifications of \u201cborn again,\u201d \u201ctax-cutting,\u201d and \u201cforeign-policy hawk\u201d can now officially be labeled \u201cunconservative.\u201d The result is that men like libertarian Ron Paul, paleoconservative Pat Buchanan, or cosmopolitan Rudy Giuliani\u2014all of whom represented legitimate dimensions of conservatism\u2014could no longer get an invite to the party. Republican presidential primaries have evolved from talent contests to the priest-selection ritual of some bizarre and parochial religion. <b>\u201cI swear by almighty God never to raise taxes\u2026\u201d<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s cliche, but what history teaches is that conservatism is not <i>a thing<\/i>, but a <i>way<\/i>. One of the major reasons I participate on this weblog, despite my primary passions <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/\">being scientific<\/a>, is to reiterate that not all conservatives are created in the same image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Conservative has an interesting piece up on the redoubtable John Randolph, Who Was John Randolph?. This part spoke to me: The danger of Buckley\u2019s effort to construct a tradition is that it slowly became a template. Anyone who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-diversity-of-conservatism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7869\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}