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the ups and downs of this and the actions of state central committee mostly because even liking a comment on either side drew the immediate ire of the opposing side which is never a good place to be as a party edmund burke is a name that conservatives enjoy utilizing very few have read what he actually believed why he supported the american war for independence and viscerally opposed the french revolution the answer is rather simple americans were defending their natural born rights the french were usurping power to create rights through law when you read john adams praising the british constitution or when burke defends the british parliamentary system over its peers this concept of consensus over coercion process over partisanship and civility over witticisms was the very thing that burke et al were trying to preserve in the face of the jacobins today we have a good number of jacobins in american politics in all sides mostly on the left but their tactics are infiltrating the republican party as well how many times have we seen one personality hijack our party processes in the name of principles only to ditch the party and leave us financially weaker less civil more partisan this cashing out of the public trust only ends in moral bankruptcy yet in the british house of commons one can be thrown out for any breach of the rules of decorum and the british constitution unwritten yet observed consists of an emphasis on fair play decency decorum and an unwillingness to allow personalities to rise above and hijack the system for personal gain no matter what the justification we have lost this in the republican party of virginia burke s genius was to emphasize party over personalities this is what kept the dantons and little robespierres at bay these burkean little platoons that we once called unit committees vfrw units yr and cr clubs they frowned upon those voices pushing isms of every type and smiled upon their neighbors they rejected calls for division for the sake of party unity they understood that the political left in this country isn t as strong as all of us and that division and hard feelings worked in their favor some folks argue that we can walk right up to that line without crossing it and that is the game of politics today it s a stupid game because it gambles with the future over the last five years we have seen our majorities in the house of delegates dwindle from supermajority to a slim one vote margin the virginia senate is jeopardized we have lost three representatives va 10 va 05 va 02 we have precisely zero statewide candidates we have democrats who paint themselves in blackface who stand accused of rape and who stand on a pile of dead babies only to scold the political right in this country as haters bigots and racists the democrats are showing their face cards full on bernie style medicaid expansion abortion up to birth and beyond college debt forbearance higher taxes to feed the bureaucracy that is failing our inner cities and public schools republicans continue to throw money in to the maw of the very government that teaches our children how to hate our values and we expect a restoration how our party infrastructure failed our candidates in the 97th district robbing us of a narrative and feeding the dysfunction that has plagued rpv since at least 2003 we aren t helping our unit chairs we aren t building our unit committees we certainly aren t helping our candidates and worst of all we haven t hit rock bottom burke knew that party infrastructure was important if conservative values were to survive the jacobin left and frankly the jacobin right if i could wave a magic wand over virginia republicans it would be to snap people out of the myth that the guy in the same foxhole as you is the enemy that s foolish and we know it heck even the democrats aren t the enemy so what is the enemy the system the byrd machine created that s the enemy their legacy of massive resistance and keeping working class people down is the enemy and given northam and herring s fondness for blackface don t tell me it s been expunged from the ranks of virginia democrats the system of public education underserving our kids and teaching them to hate our values is the enemy colleges and universities taking healthy 18 year olds and feeding back worthless 22 year olds trained in disciplines our economy doesn t need is the enemy this culture that says it is easier to celebrate mediocrity rather than achieve excellence is the enemy but the enemy isn t us or at least shouldn t be the ghost of dick obenshain still lives my friends but is he smiling upon our work for myself our party processes really are the beginning and end of any solution moving forward we have to create a culture of camaraderie and excellence again one that supports our communities rather than gets sucked into the false dichotomy of the media cycle our neighbors are not substitutes for what is going on at the national stage give 1776 a watch this fourth of july weekend would that every unit committee adopt this sort of consensus and willingness to laugh at themselves yet remain united in the task of preserving human freedom hopefully we will figure it out before virginia becomes new jersey which if we lose the house of delegates we will and name the last time conservatives ever took back a liberty lost burke understood the stakes we should as well happy independence day folks we have work to do posted in uncategorized comments off on edmund burke and why our infighting is failing our values disquiet bring out your blogs posted on june 17 2019 by shaun kenney i truly cannot stand the moniker blogger as if writing online constituted a vocation never have been folks writers write regardless of the medium and if you ever want to know a sub par iq watch them use the word blogger screw you moron which is why i am so pleased to share this article with you reminiscing about the golden age of ideas when writing in a web log got abbreviated by mental hamsters to blog and what that cost and don t concern yourself with whether or not you write don t leave writing to writers don t delegate your area of interest and knowledge to people with stronger rhetorical resources you ll find your voice as you make your way there is however one thing to learn from writers that non writers don t always understand most writers don t write to express what they think they write to figure out what they think writing is a process of discovery blogging is an essential tool toward meditating over an extended period of time on a subject you consider to be important of course this is the utility of any writing medium whether it s the act of physically writing something down transcription from scribble to type or hammering things out on your green screen george r r martin style we used to be really good about this until twitter came about and we discovered that most people could only think in bumper sticker then came big data and the commodification of just about everything up to and including giving away all your personal data in exchange for a free service that monetizes every inch of your existence including your daily musings on the affairs of the world frankly i prefer a time where folks sat in coffee houses either playing chess or working on our little novellas while reading infinite jest as if we could all be the next david foster wallace today who even recalls why folks loved the man what he meant or why folks found some notions of resistance against onanistic culture instead of ideas art and poetry it all turned into self gratification likes retweets and chasing that gram or perhaps the democratization of information simply exposed us as the banal human beings we always were either way i think i preferred the blue pill nevertheless i do get the sense that i have lost my touch i was a better writer 10 years ago in some respects more confident self assured ready to set the world to rights with thunderbolt in one hand and snake in the other one supposes my twenty something self and my thirty something self would have gotten along famously whereas my forty something self i have just recently been introduced to these ranks would politely smile and nod wiedenbaum nails it here previously writing was an end today writing is a pleasurable end that quite frankly i tend to reserve for myself do i mind opining on current events and the things that interest me most certainly does it make me any money never has at least i don t see myself becoming an editor at national review or first things anytime soon yet writing as meditation has nearly always been my style to work out what i might think so that i can express what i actually think or better still to express the parameters for what i might believe that s valuable to myself even if it is not valuable to the world right does it matter if it is a physical journal vs a digital journal only in this one sense my ideas and thoughts are exposed to criticism here in a way that montaigne machiavelli or erasmus might not have tolerated in their essays so welcome to the republic of letters 2 0 this is a good place to be if anyone else is interested or not it is all the same posted in uncategorized 1 comment pro life republicans will be served well by freitas in sen 24 posted on may 29 2019 by shaun kenney this one shouldn t even be a tough choice tina freitas has no true reason to run for virginia senate a mother of three married to whom many consider to be a rising star in virginia politics and having held the most difficult of all careers a military spouse freitas could easily have chosen to allow someone else to carry the battle standards of the conservative movement and galvanized voters in her own way yet instead the issues that hanger raises that dares conservatives to challenge him are precisely the reasons that motivate freitas to lead smaller government and the right to life linking both is an emphasis on the role of families contrasted against the daddy knows best paternalism of richmond on these three issues alone freitas is not only an easy protest vote she would become an important voice in the virginia senate for commonsense conservatives values it is no small secret that the republican party in virginia is undergoing a catharsis of sorts one of three scenarios will play out either we will become the more dynamic and liberty leaning constitutional conservative party that many of us have been fighting to preserve and create over the last 20 years or we will backslide into either a reactionary populism or an entrenched establishmentarian mindset hanger embodies this calcification of leadership in the virginia senate practically daring conservatives to challenge him openly his weakness on the right to life in the post northam era should be an instant disqualificiation hanger s eagerness to shovel money and resources into the maw of planned parenthood is atrocious and disgraceful hanger s proclivity for never meeting a tax he didn t hike isn t a question of paying one s bills but rather an indicator of a fundamental disagreement as to who should run this commonwealth richmond or working families freitas is doing more than just reminding the establishment of their place rather freitas is reminding hanger et al that their titles do not confer some sort of mythical authority over the futures of virginia families but responsibilities owed to them to build a better more free society surely hanger s defenders will argue that education transportation and all of the realities of a functioning state matter intensely yet every time a politician prioritizes virginia s government over virginia s families there are other budgets that get cut food clothing the mortgage if hanger s fascination with tax hikes were matched with innovative new solutions that actually reinforced families promoted workforce development supported microfinance statewide and revamped the virginia education system both secondary and post secondary perhaps the roi on the taxpayers investment could be justified instead not only has hanger merely bankrolled the old system he has poured money into an organization whose sole purpose is to kill future taxpayers politicians tend to be 5 10 years behind their electorates hanger and norment continue to be the relics of this age clinging to power for its own sake but never with a desire to advance the conservative cause unless forced to do so no small wonder why the cancer of leftism and the calcification of leadership continues to survive in certain quarters never quite lifting a finger for the conservative movement unless to say see we told you so tina freitas embodies the very best of what grassroots conservatives in virginia look for in their leaders pro life pro family pro limited government and someone who believes our 2nd amendment rights should be defended the same way we treat our 1st amendment rights as a mother a military spouse and a community leader who views titles as responsibilities rather than stepping stones conservatives can rest easy knowing that freitas will defend all the values we hold dear and do so with integrity respect and common cause the term of proudly supporting people in public life is a term that is at times much abused virginians in the 24th senate district have every reason to be proud to support tina freitas not just because she represents our values but because she lives them as well posted in endorsements politics virginia senate comments off on pro life republicans will be served well by freitas in sen 24 thucydides on american politics posted on december 7 2018 by shaun kenney having spent a great deal of time with thucydides this year there is a certain portion of his history of the peloponnesian war that describes the violence inside the city of corcyra modern day corfu led by the two factions within the city given the fact that some public figures today use thucydides as a textbook i thought this reflection of the stasis read civil war of corcyra to be rather apt as a warning and a recommendation to take up the classics so bloody was the march of the revolution and the impression which it made was the greater as it was one of the first to occur later on one may say the whole hellenic world was convulsed struggles being everywhere made by the popular chiefs to bring in the athenians and by the oligarchs to introduce the lacedaemonians in peace there would have been neither the pretext nor the wish to make such an invitation but in war with an alliance always at the command of either faction for the hurt of their adversaries and their own corresponding advantage opportunities for bringing in the foreigner were never wanting to the revolutionary parties the sufferings which revolution entailed upon the cities were many and terrible such as have occurred and always will occur as long as the nature of mankind remains the same though in a severer or milder form and 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