The Danger of the State

[Snicker]

**The state and the potential threat it poses to the things conservatives value, including both our liberties and our traditional culture, have long lain at the heart of conservative thinking. But I think the next conservatism will have to look at the state more broadly than it has in the past, and that is what I intend to do.

Nonetheless, I think the next conservatism will have to start by considering the danger of the state, not because that (justified) fear is new to us, but because we need to shape our thinking to some new realities. **

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The Danger of the State – 07/22/2005

 

[KathleenElsie]

The state (as in government or state of being?) and the potential threat it poses to the things conservatives value (just conservatives or Catholics also?), including both our (are you now saying you are a conservative?) liberties and our (World or USA or other?) traditional culture, have long lain at the heart of conservative thinking. But I think the next conservatism will have to look at the state more broadly (as in one world government?) than it has in the past, and that is what I intend to do.

Nonetheless, I think the next conservatism will have to start by considering the danger of the state, not because that (justified) fear is new to us, but because we need to shape our thinking to some new (whose new reality?) realities (reality does not change just as God does not change His mind good is still good and evil is still evil).

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The Danger of the State – 07/22/2005

Can you please define next conservatism? How does it differ from past and present conservatism? Is it equated with moral conservatism and if so what are the changes you expect in the future?