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Originally posted by Cube Inmate@Nov 19 2004, 01:05 AM
Okay, T5, I read the stupid thing. Do I have the right to comment?
Right or not, here I go. First of all, if the author truly believes that conservatism = aristocracy and liberalism = democracy, then he shouldn't try to connect small-c conservatism to the Republicans and liberalism to the Democrats. By his logic, both parties are aristocratic and therefore conservative (does he honestly think they're much different?). Meanwhile, the only true small-d democrats are the hippies. But wait...they did stupid things in the 60s like taking drugs...oh no! In any case, the fact that he tries to use a very simplistic link like aristocracy = conservatism, and then connect that directly to the modern day American landscape just indicates that this isn't an academic paper, it's a p*ssed-off Democratic voter.
Bah...I don't have time to say enough now, but I'll just add that I only read the thing because I couldn't look away...it was like a car accident. I'm glad I read long enough to get to the point where he states "Snoop Dogg's music really is garbage." That's a credible author eh?
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I'm not sure what you're getting at?
The links you perceived between some-c conservatism and Republicans were, from what I can remember, only examples. I don't remember the author stating anywhere that what he was talking about was exactly the Republican party. I think that was bias on your part.
Nor did he say that democratism is represented by the Democrats. In fact, I remember him taking a couple of shots at the Democratic party because of their abandonment of liberal ideals, inability to push their ideology, and what essentially amounts to their weak-willed "me-too" philosophy in regards to getting the vote (i.e., we're like Republicans, really, we are! Vote for us!)
I'm not sure why there was the tangent on Snoop Dogg or whatever, but I don't think that really has much to do with the credibility of the author's argument. He has a flair for the dramatic which may disagree with some people, but so what?