How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends
I don’t know how I have managed to be such an old school conservative for so long yet only recently found P.J. O’Rourke’s How to Explain Conservatism to Your Squishy Liberal Friends
Conservatism is sometimes confused with Social Darwinism or other such me-first dogmas. Sometimes the confusion is deliberate. When those who are against conservative policies don’t have sufficient opposition arguments, they call love of freedom “selfish. ” Of course it is-in the sense that breathing is selfish. But because you want to breathe doesn’t mean you want to suck the breath out of every person you encounter. Conservatives do not believe in the triumph of the large and powerful over the weak and useless.
I quote this excerpt because someone said “Conservatism is Social Darwinism” to me just yesterday.