omg...Center for Cultural Conservatism...the new white sheeters?

http://www.freecongress.org/centers/cc/history.aspA Short History of Cultural Conservatism

Through most of the Cold War era, American conservatism rested on the twin pillars of free market economics and anti-Communism. Culture was not a political issue, for the simple reason that America was culturally united. Traditional, Western, Judeo-Christian culture was accepted by the vast majority of Americans, including the American political Establishment, both political parties and most other elites as well. Rejection of Western culture was limited to a few small, eccentric bands in places like Greenwich Village.

By the early 1980s, however, the Free Congress Foundation recognized that this situation had changed. The New Left had launched a massive assault on Western culture in the academy, beginning in the 1960s. The cultural revolution in the academy had spread to wide segments of the general population, promoted especially by the entertainment industry. Most of the Democratic Party had gone over to the new anti-Western view, adopting its mantra of "racism, sexism and homophobia." While free market economics was triumphing world-wide and Communism’s days were obviously numbered, America’s culture was turning into a moral sewer. Clearly, a new conservatism was needed in response -- a conservatism built not on economics but on defense of traditional Western culture.

A few American conservative leaders, most prominently the great Russell Kirk, had long championed a cultural basis for politics. But Free Congress Foundation was the first Washington-based conservative think tank to take on the task of developing a new cultural conservatism, cultural conservatism aimed directly at the causes of America’s cultural decline (Dr. Kirk was strongly supportive of our efforts). Beginning in 1985, the Foundation published a series of Essays On Our Times that explored what a modern cultural conservatism might look like. In one of those essays, the Foundation offered a definition of cultural conservatism that has shaped its subsequent development:

Cultural conservatism is the belief that there is a necessary, unbreakable, and causal relationship between traditional Western, Judeo-Christian values, definitions of right and wrong, ways of thinking and ways of living -- the parameters of Western culture -- and the secular success of Western societies: their prosperity, their liberties, and the opportunities they offer their citizens to lead fulfilling, rewarding lives. If the former are abandoned, the latter will be lost.

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...I'm fully prepared to bring it.

Found this at the site (interesting comment in light of the USSC "sElection 2000".

The survival of America's system of representative self-government depends on whether federal judges know their proper place. No issue is safe, no form of political participation is effective if judges govern by fiat. No matter what any given group's agenda, it can be swept aside by activist judges. That is why judicial activism is everyone's issue.

just like they were in the selection 2000

seriously, which of these two words do you think they really care about? the Judeo or the Christian? how many Jews signed the Declaration of Independance? How many Jews were elected to national office before 1950? How many Jews did the US government give asylum to during WWII? Why do I have to work on Passover, but not Christmas? "Judeo-Christian" values are almost always Christian rules, with Jews allowed as long as they aren't TOO Jewish.

HERE IS A LETTER THE FOUNDER WRITES TO HIS DICIPLES....long and i didn't even post half of it :scared:

http://www.freecongress.org/misc/990216ltr.asp

February 16, 1999

Dear Friend:

Late last year, I had the opportunity of speaking to the Conservative Leadership Conference on the state of the conservative movement. I’ve given similar talks in the past, and usually they have focused on the most recent election or our situation in Congress or something similar. This time, the thoughts I offered were very different, and frankly rather radical. The strong, positive response they brought forth – which came as something of a surprise to me – has led me to think that I should share them more widely. That is the purpose of this letter.

What many of us have been trying to do for many years has been based upon a couple of premises. First of all, we have assumed that a majority of Americans basically agrees with our point of view. That has been the premise upon which we have tried to build any number of institutions, and indeed our whole strategy. It is I who suggested to Jerry Falwell that he call his organization the "Moral Majority." The second premise has been that if we could just elect enough conservatives, we could get our people in as Congressional leaders and they would fight to implement our agenda.

In looking at the long history of conservative politics, from the defeat of Robert Taft in 1952, to the nomination of Barry Goldwater, to the takeover of the Republican Party in 1994, I think it is fair to say that conservatives have learned to succeed in politics. That is, we got our people elected.

But that did not result in the adoption of our agenda. The reason, I think, is that politics itself has failed. And politics has failed because of the collapse of the culture. The culture we are living in becomes an ever-wider sewer. In truth, I think we are caught up in a cultural collapse of historic proportions, a collapse so great that it simply overwhelms politics.

That’s why I am in the process of rethinking what it is that we, who still believe in our traditional, Western, Judeo-Christian culture, can and should do under the circumstances. Please understand that I am not quarreling with anybody who pursues politics, because it is important to pursue politics, to be involved in government. It is also important to try, as many people have, to re-take the cultural institutions that have been captured by the other side.

But it is impossible to ignore the fact that the United States is becoming an ideological state. The ideology of Political Correctness, which openly calls for the destruction of our traditional culture, has so gripped the body politic, has so gripped our institutions, that it is even affecting the Church. It has completely taken over the academic community. It is now pervasive in the entertainment industry, and it threatens to control literally every aspect of our lives.

Those who came up with Political Correctness, which we more accurately call "Cultural Marxism," did so in a deliberate fashion. I’m not going to go into the whole history of the Frankfurt School and Herbert Marcuse and the other people responsible for this. Suffice it to say that the United States is very close to becoming a state totally dominated by an alien ideology, an ideology bitterly hostile to Western culture. Even now, for the first time in their lives, people have to be afraid of what they say. This has never been true in the history of our country. Yet today, if you say the "wrong thing," you suddenly have legal problems, political problems, you might even lose your job or be expelled from college. Certain topics are forbidden. You can’t approach the truth about a lot of different subjects. If you do, you are immediately branded as "racist", "sexist", "homophobic", "insensitive", or "judgmental."

Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture. The question becomes, if we are unable to escape the cultural disintegration that is gripping society, then what hope can we have? Let me be perfectly frank about it. If there really were a moral majority out there, Bill Clinton would have been driven out of office months ago. It is not only the lack of political will on the part of Republicans, although that is part of the problem. More powerful is the fact that what Americans would have found absolutely intolerable only a few years ago, a majority now not only tolerates but celebrates. Americans have adopted, in large measure, the MTV culture that we so valiantly opposed just a few years ago, and it has permeated the thinking of all but those who have separated themselves from the contemporary culture.

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therefore, what seems to me a legitimate strategy for us to follow is to look at ways to separate ourselves from the institutions that have been captured by the ideology of Political Correctness, or by other enemies of our traditional culture. I would point out to you that the word "holy" means "set apart", and that it is not against our tradition to be, in fact, "set apart". You can look in the Old Testament, you can look at Christian history. You will see that there were times when those who had our beliefs were definitely in the minority and it was a band of hardy monks who preserved the culture while the surrounding society disintegrated.

What I mean by separation is, for example, what the homeschoolers have done. Faced with public school systems that no longer educate but instead "condition" students with the attitudes demanded by Political Correctness, they have seceded. They have separated themselves from public schools and have created new institutions, new schools, in their homes.

The same thing is happening in other areas. Some people are getting rid of their televisions. Others are setting up private courts, where they can hope to find justice instead of ideology and greed.

I think that we have to look at a whole series of possibilities for bypassing the institutions that are controlled by the enemy. If we expend our energies on fighting on the "turf" they already control, we will probably not accomplish what we hope, and we may spend ourselves to the point of exhaustion. The promising thing about a strategy of separation is that it has more to do with who we are, and what we become, than it does with what the other side is doing and what we are going to do about it.

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I'm culturally very, very liberal (End the WOD, legalize prostitution, etc.). However

- I like a little country with my rock, blues, jazz, etc.
- I appreciate art, and don't assign ideologies to styles. A painting of the Grand Canyon is just that. No hidden agendas that I'm aware of.
- Although not my fave, I enjoy some country cooking, especially my wife's bisquits and gravy.
- Some very liberal churches contain inspirational sculpture.
- I've seen more than one Goth kid in dull dress devoid of color and style.
- Extremely short hair (to the point of nonexistent) is very popular with male rockers and musicians who are about as right-wing as Timothy Leary.
- About 50% of my liberal female friends have long "impractical" hair.
- I drive an SUV. I'm also a member of cave and rough-terrain rescue teams. Makes sense, huh.
- Most houses are "boxy" regardless of the ideology of the inhabitants.
- Morals are not the exclusive domain of the right-wing, despite their claims. I have met some very "moral" atheists, agnostics, etc.
- I have met some very religious liberal people whose religious beliefs impact on every aspect of their life. They just don't force it on anyone else.

I do agree that "hate radio" as it is termed, is indicative of right-wing culture.

Ya can't judge a book by it's cover.

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