Comments Which Conservatives Block From Their Blogs For April 7, 2021

 April 6

To Bradley Birzer and his article on what Conservatism must to continue. This appeared in the Imaginative Conservative blog.

Where I see conservatism is that it is at the center of denial. That denial is a failure to recognize the system racism and the oppression of other groups and its own culpability in that oppression. And thus recognizing the dignity of individuals does little to address people's needs when their problems are not adequately recognized. In addition, conservatism is in denial of its own inadequacies and its need to learn from other ideologies.

But conservatism is not the only group in such denial. Liberalism and the Left are in the same kind of denial as conservatives are. There are circles from all of these ideologies that fail to recognize both their own weaknesses and failures as well as the contributions other ideologies can make. what distinguishes conservatism from the other ideological groups in their denial is that in America, conservatism is the most boisterous of all the ideologies.

Conservatism has become tribal and with that tribalism has come hubris and the assumption that conservatism had everything to teach and nothing to learn from other isms and ideologies. and thus all other approaches are seen as threats by conservatism. One only needs to listen to conservative talk media or conservative politicians or blog sites like this one to observe that hubris.

It would be unfair to not to mention the hubris that exists in liberal and leftist circles as well. And that hubris makes each group act as if collaboration with other ideological group as compromising, if not a betraying, one's principles. But again, those in conservatism seem to be the most boisterous of all ideological groups.

What we see to today on all sides is ideological tribalism where in each tribe outsiders are shunned if not demonized. Such tribalism is divisive. Such tribalism causes people to declare culture wars in a forever king-of-the-hill battle for survival.

So conservatism is basically not just following the path that other ideologies are pursuing, it is leading the way. And the only way for conservatism to change course is to emerge from its current state of denial and to escape tribalism. And to do that, conservatism has to admit that it doesn't have all the answers and that it could a few things from liberals and leftists.

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To Stephen Klugewicz and his article that criticizes MLB for moving its All-Star game from Atlanta in protest against Georgia’s new election laws. This appeared in the Imaginative Conservative blog.

The above article shows nothing but contempt for those whose views oppose what Klugewicz believes. Broad assumptions are made of anyone who is woke--those who see and oppose systemic racism or promote equality for those in the LGBT community.

Does Klugewicz know how MLB made the decision to oppose Georgia's voting laws? Does Klugewicz understand the issues surrounding Georgia's election laws? What could be the goal of changing election laws when Trump appointed officials supported the fairness of the 2020 election? Does Klugewicz comment on the fact that Trump injected a conditional suspicion into the elections when he claimed during both the 2016 and 2020 campaigns that he could only lose if the election was rigged?

Does Klugewicz see systemic racism in our nation or is such a notion itself an insult to what he values?

The whole above article is nothing more than an ad hominem attack on wokeness without making any distinctions. Everyone who is woke to any degree is considered to only be self-serving and uninformed by Klugewicz. And it is  that kind of overgeneralized thinking and labeling of people that wokeness says is a major problem with this nation. Basically, in protesting wokeness, Klugewicz demonstrates the kind of thinking that bigotry is made of.