Came across this...
...in the Xhitter feed of this guy.
And even given my long attention to and understanding of the fundamental shallow and rapacious shittiness of "conservative thinking" I was kinda gobsmacked.
WTAF? Seriously, National Review? Lights on in your heads, dumbfucks!
"Grand social experiment"..?
Really, which part of high school civics were you Rushbo-wannabees sleeping through that you missed the whole "American Experiment" thing?
"The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness."
George Washington, January 9, 1790
The promise of these United States - the only thing about them that has value, the implicit promise the Founders didn't realize they'd made - is the idea of the grand noble experiment in self-government for all of We the People.
No kings. No popes. No lords and ladies, no hierophants, no rigid social framework where those born to rule rule those born to serve.
The entire, central fucking IDEAL of the United States, the core tenet of the values that supposedly make this nation different, is that We are embarked in a "grand social experiment" to see if that can work.
The fact that we've fallen far short of that value doesn't decentralize it. The fact that we have to, that we need to, make reparations to those who, because of our prejudices we wrote into our laws and baked into our society, were held back and held behind the ideal of equal justice under law, doesn't change it's importance.
The armed forces of a Republic are representative of - must represent - the ideals and goals of that Republic. If they do not, they must be held to a higher standard than the civil society around them in hopes of reforming that society. Not the other way around.
For those reasons alone Harry Truman ordered the desegregation of the Army over half a century ago.
I'm sure the National Review tut-tutted that "grand social experiment" that time, too.
In the Age of Trump it's increasingly difficult to hide the vicious racist stupidity behind "conservative" politics. But this was stupidly racist even for these gomers.
I think I hated them a tiny bit less when they were just openly honest Klansmen,
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National Review lost its mind quite some time ago.
I used to read it, a long while back when William F Buckley was still running it... conservative yes, but nowhere near the same mean-spiritedness, the shallow non-arguments, hell WFB only hired people who could actually put sentences together!
Don't tell them about the former slave poetess that Washington wrote that note to. Their heads will explode:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Washington#/media/File:Phillis_Wheatley_frontispiece.jpg
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