The Always Losing Argument

The Always Losing Argument - EPautos - Libertarian Car Talk

I read an article the other day, recommended by a friend, about “conservatives” and the futility of the reactionary politics that defines them. They are always looking backward, to a time when things were “better.”

But the getting there always stymies them.

Well, sure.

Because it doesn’t have intellectual pull. It comes off as the philosophical-political equivalent of “get off my lawn, you damned kids.” An old man fulminating about lost youth.

It doesn’t sell.

But arguing principles – especially good ones – does.

Or at least, can.

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