Born Too Soon :: Gates Of Vienna

All this time I thought I was an autocrat - or maybe an authoritarian fascist, according to various former relatives - and here it turns out I really am a conservative after all. Who’da thunk? Obviously not certain of my friends, who will never wring the truth out of me with their lily-white liberal hands.

Read Russell Kirk’s Ten Signs You Might Be a Conservative. Moses knew what he was doing: all good lists need ten items. Thus, Kirk’s decalogue.

I won’t quote all of them. Instead I chose my foremost principle from his list. Your own most singularly important directive may be different, but for me it is number Six:

conservatives are chastened by their principle of imperfectability

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