Re: [Salon] Freedom Conservatism: A Statement of Principles



Forgive me Lord for sharing this as I know our Traditional Conservatives, National Conservatives, New Rightists, et al., will stampede to this website to sign on to this new Republican/Conservative “front group” presenting themselves as standing for “Freedom.” While they’re always demanding more military spending, as does the Freedom Caucus. But a list member who has expressed difficulty in understanding me helpfully sent the link below to me with the statement that "This what my group believes in.”

Now I understand the “language difficulty” he has, explaining why he finds it difficult to understand me when most others don’t. I speak “anti-militarism,” and actual “Constitutionalism,” as my “cultural language.” This group to which he admits to belong to speaks “Doublespeak,” and “Militarism,” and “anti-Constitutionalism” as their “cultural language.” So I say thanks to this list member for providing such a complete list of who is arrayed against us few anti-militarists! And as evidence of the “fusion” of Libertarians, National Conservatives, Neoconservatives, Traditional Conservatives, Trumpites, DeFascistites, New Rightists, or, Democratic Fascists” in general, making my case that any “distinctions” within the “Right” are artificial or duplicitous, and intended as such .
http://www.freedomconservatism.org/p/freedom-conservatism-a-statement?r=9hfua&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

What a list of warmongers are put together here! As individuals, or “think tanks,” and publications, which have promoted U.S. hyper-militarism for decades now. Beginning with AEI (Daniele Pletka!) and Dick Armey, and going through the alphabet further, the Heritage Foundation, and the many Koch funded state organizations working tirelessly to subvert “decent” and “honest” government on behalf of the Republican Party, in the form of their own “Legal/Cultural Coup,” waged now for a few decades. 

As begun by Armey and Gingrich in 1994 (picking up from where the Traditional Conservative Reagan left off, though kudos to him for putting aside the hostile “Right,” and beginning to reach accommodations with nuclear armed countries) as the Contract for America, which Armey promoted in his book of long ago, "The Freedom Revolution.” Predictably, per the perpetual Republican Platform item, as did the Contract for America, it called for a “Stronger Defense,” and a “halt” to Clinton’s “march to a hollow military.” And instead, to “set in motion a Republican defense agenda for 1996.” And denouncing those “New Democrats” like Clinton and Biden, then, and now, as “counterfeit conservatives.” Which they’re a damned good “counterfeit" of as we see in Biden’s “War Agenda,” matching word for word (almost) the Republican’s violent language.

So here we go, another political fraud by the "Right,” passing Damiele Pletka, Karl Rove, et al., off as standing for “Freedom.” Meaning in fact, the “freedom” of the Oligarchs to expropriate as much wealth from the rest of us as possible, while concealing that as “Freedom,” to include our waging wars on behalfof “Oligarch Interests!” And so many suckers fall for that, that it means US Perpetual War will continue, until our national suicide is complete.  

But check these duplicitous bas****s out, as just the examples I know of best. Starting at the top with the correct claim that there’s no difference between so-called “Freedom Conservatism,” and the extreme Zionist National Conservatism of TAC magazine, Peter Thiel, Dan McCarthy, the New Right, et al.: 

https://www.freedomconservatism.org/p/update-5dd

Michael Brendan Dougherty, a signatory to the National Conservatism statement of principles, tweeted that “I could have signed [the Freedom Conservatism statement] honestly” as well—arguing in National Review that if you compare the Freedom Conservatism and National Conservatism statements, there was overlap between the two, and was puzzled by the need for Freedom Conservatism. 

 

To ensure no one misses this, moving her up from below, as no one in USA is more insane for war than Pletka, and AEI. Which says it all about anyone who affiliates themselves with AEI, as some have done here, to include its initial role as a front for the Goldwater campaign:
Danielle Pletka • @DPletka
American Enterprise Institute 

 

Richard K. Armey • @DickArmey
Former U.S. House Majority Leader

 

David L. Bahnsen • @DavidBahnsen 
National Review Institute / Acton Institute

Jeb Bush • @JebBush 
Foundation for Excellence in Education / Former Governor of Florida

 

Jack Butler • @JackButler4815
National Review

 

John Byrnes • @JohnByrnes13
Concerned Veterans for America

 

Mona Charen • @MonaCharen
The Bulwark

Lanhee Chen • @LanheeChen
Hoover Institution at Stanford University

 

John Colman 
Ave Maria University

 Charles C.W. Cooke • @CharlesCWCooke

National Review

James R. Copland • @JamesRCopland
Manhattan Institute

 

Johnny B. Davis

Helms School of Government, Liberty University

Soren Dayton • @SorenDayton
Niskanen Center

 

Daniel Di Martino • @DanielDiMartino
Manhattan Institute / Dissident Project

Trey Dimsdale • @TreyDimsdale
Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy

Tiana Lowe Doescher • @TianaTheFirst
Washington Examiner

 

Rick Esenberg • @RickEsenberg
Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty

Williamson Evers
Independent Institute

Caleb Fuller • @CalebSFuller
Grove City College
 

James K. Glassman • @JamesKGlassman1
Former U.S. Under Secretary of State

Judge Glock • @JudgeGlock
Manhattan Institute

Jonah Goldberg • @JonahDispatch
The Dispatch / American Enterprise Institute

 

Joel Griffith • @JoelGriffith
Heritage Foundation

James Gwartney 
Florida State University

David Harsanyi • @DavidHarsanyi
The Federalist / National Review

 

Kevin Hassett 
Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Steven F. Hayward • @StevenFHayward
University of California, Berkeley

 

Quin Hillyer • @QuinHillyer

The Washington Examiner

Charles Hilu • @CharlesHilu73
Intercollegiate Studies Institute / Washington Free Beacon


Kim Holmes • @KimSmithHolmes
Former Assistant Secretary of State

 

Daniel Klein

George Mason University

 Bill Laub

Nevada Policy Research Institute

Frank Lavin • @HelloFrankLavin
Hoover Institution at Stanford University


Joseph G. Lehman 
Mackinac Center for Public Policy

 

Matt Lewis • @MattKLewis
The Daily Beast

Rachel Lu • @RCLu

Liberty Fund

 Wilfred McClay 

Hillsdale College

 Annette Meeks • @MeeksGOP (happy to see this war fanatic from my home state is not left out!)

Freedom Foundation of Minnesota

 

Grover Norquist • @GroverNorquist

Americans for Tax Reform

Brent Orrell • @OrrellAEI
American Enterprise Institute


Catherine R. Pakaluk • @CRPakaluk
Catholic University

 

James Patterson • @McGillPatterson
Ave Maria University 


 John Phelan • @Minnesotanomics (likewise here!)

Center of the American Experiment

 

Juliana Geran Pilon 
The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization

Danielle Pletka • @DPletka
American Enterprise Institute


Ramesh Ponnuru • @RameshPonnuru
National Review / American Enterprise Institute

 

Phillip Prange • @PhilPrange
Bradley Impact Fund

 

Richard M. Reinsch II • @Reinsch84
Law & Liberty

Tim Rice • @TimERice1
Washington Free Beacon

 

Victor Riches
Goldwater Institute

 

Dalibor Roháč • @DaliborRohac
American Enterprise Institute

Noah Rothman • @NoahCRothman
National Review

 

Karl Rove • @KarlRove
The Wall Street Journal

 

Peter St. Onge • @ProfStOnge
Heritage Foundation

 

Christina Sandefur • @CMSandefur
Goldwater Institute

Gabriel Scheinmann • @GabeScheinmann
Alexander Hamilton Society


Christian Schneider • @Schneider_CM
National Review


Ilya Shapiro • @IShapiro
Manhattan Institute

 

Aaron Stover • @ADStover
Heartland Institute

Will Swaim • @WillSwaim
California Policy Center

 

Charlie Sykes • @SykesCharlie
The Bulwark 

 

Wayne Thorburn
Former Executive Director, Young Americans for Freedom

 

Mark Tooley • @MarkDTooley
Institute on Religion & Democracy

John Tsarpalas • @JTsarpalas
Nevada Policy Research Institute

 

George F. Will • @GeorgeWill
The Washington Post

Kevin Williamson
The Dispatch

 

 Scott Winship • @SWinshi

American Enterprise Institute

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


On Jul 30, 2023, at 6:30 PM, @gmail.com> wrote:

This what my group believes in.

www.freedomconservatism.org/p/freedom-conservatism-a-statement?r=9hfua&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web




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