Andrew Bolt is a conservative, not a right-winger:
MTR, [Steve Price] said, would be Right-wing.
[I reminded] Price that if I had to own a tag, it was “conservative”, a very different thing.
And conservatives, unlike left- and right-wingers, unite people:
… conservatives of my kind also know it’s through our reason, freedom and individualism that we’re most fully human … We mistrust all creeds that divide us into tribes …
Here is Andrew Bolt not dividing us into tribes:
What a world we are literally creating. Two centuries ago in Britain, the rich outbred the poor, and pushed their values down the social scale. Now the poor – many virtuous, yes, but others lazy, careless or unsocialised – outbreed the rich, and the mob’s values are pushed up.
Clearly, under conservatism things like freedom and individualism only go so far. Opera: okay; tattoos and low socio-economic status: “new barbarianism”.
#1 by Molesworth on 14 April 2010 - 11:14 am
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The rich will breed again!
#2 by Idlaviv on 14 April 2010 - 12:02 pm
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Last night on the BBC’s ‘Britain From Above’ they touched on the Medieval Farming practise known as “Strip Farming”. Peasant families would help each other with their crop production and their community spirit would have been, I imagine, extremely high.
Was it “reason, freedom and individualism” that put a cruel end to the practise?
#3 by Ross Sharp on 14 April 2010 - 12:50 pm
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… conservatives of my kind also know it’s through our reason, freedom and individualism that we’re most fully human … We mistrust all creeds that divide us into tribes …
“We demand the right to be up ourselves twelve ways and pass judgement on any and all people we deem to be beneath us. Which is most of you. We’re not saying we’re better than you are, but we’re certainly preferable.”
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#4 by Molesworth on 14 April 2010 - 2:14 pm
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Poor people probably listen to “popular music” too, poor sods.
#5 by Toaf on 14 April 2010 - 6:18 pm
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Some of my best friends are poor tattooed neo-barbarians.
#6 by deffdredd on 14 April 2010 - 6:27 pm
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Lefties never seem to have a problem identifying themselves as such. What is it with the right and their need to give themselves politically correct tags? I thought they despised political correctness.
#7 by Trevor McDonald on 14 April 2010 - 7:54 pm
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So does that mean I’m conservative?
#8 by Bruce on 15 April 2010 - 11:16 am
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Is it really true that the rich outbred the poor?
I was under the impression that it was the other way around. Perhaps the rich had a lower infant mortality rate, but having a large family to work the farm, provide for you in old age etc. would have been a desirable result.