{"id":1057,"date":"2011-03-02T16:49:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2011-03-02T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:49:17","slug":"what-is-conservatism-and-what-is-wrong-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/03\/what-is-conservatism-and-what-is-wrong-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip E. Agre<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/polaris.gseis.ucla.edu\/pagre\/conservatism.html\">What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nielsenhayden.com\/electroside\/archives\/2011_02.html#012863\">Sidelights<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\">Q: What is conservatism?<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\">A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\">Q: What is wrong with conservatism?\u00a0A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that is founded on deception and has no place in the modern world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; font-size: medium;\">And it really annoys me that so many Americans seem to want to elevate the President to a King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip E. Agre via What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?. via Sidelights Q: What is conservatism? A: Conservatism is the domination of society by an aristocracy. Q: What is wrong with conservatism?\u00a0A: Conservatism is incompatible with democracy, prosperity, and civilization in general. It is a destructive system of inequality and prejudice that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2011\/03\/what-is-conservatism-and-what-is-wrong-with-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Is Conservatism and What Is Wrong with It?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-h3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1058,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/1058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}