Exactly, nothing happens to the enemy, and we have to fight tooth and nail in the courts for years to get a few victories here and there. The Confederates warned Conservatism was created by our enemies to keep us in a defensive position that seemed to be fighting for us but was slowly following the enemy. We really had to win the Civil War.
It's far too late to fix things, the collapse has already started and soon the legal system will go the communist route like it has every other place this has happened in.
“Conservatism never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn.
American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition.
It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its 'bark is worse than its bite,' and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it 'in wind,' and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip.”
-- Robert Louis Dabney, Confederate States Army chaplain, biographer to Stonewall Jackson
Exactly, nothing happens to the enemy, and we have to fight tooth and nail in the courts for years to get a few victories here and there. The Confederates warned Conservatism was created by our enemies to keep us in a defensive position that seemed to be fighting for us but was slowly following the enemy. We really had to win the Civil War.
It's far too late to fix things, the collapse has already started and soon the legal system will go the communist route like it has every other place this has happened in.
“Conservatism never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn.
American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition.
It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth, and has no idea of being guilty of the folly of martyrdom. It always when about to enter a protest very blandly informs the wild beast whose path it essays to stop, that its 'bark is worse than its bite,' and that it only means to save its manners by enacting its decent role of resistance: The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it 'in wind,' and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip.”
-- Robert Louis Dabney, Confederate States Army chaplain, biographer to Stonewall Jackson
Nice words ... to bad it was a looser that uttered them .