Mighty Intellect
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Location: Changchun, China
Location: Changchun, China
June 3rd, 2007, 10:28 AM
While I identify with neither the right nor the left, if I was forced to choose, I'd probably go moderate left. Yet despite this, coupled with Winston Churchill being conservative, I still can't help but agree on many of his points, even if usually only in principle.
If you should read the following speech of his, you'll find that while the details of his ideas are conservative, and might even come across as a overly anglocentric, the underlying principles are quite universally acceptable to moderates on both the right and the left, I should think:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/...cfm?pageid=424
And the Atlantic Charter (I don't see what there is in this that either the right or left can really disagree on):
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/...cfm?pageid=519
And many other speaches of his deal with equally universal principles.
What do you think? Would Churchill be a model for conservatives to breach the gap between the moderate right and left? Now don't get me wrong: there are many ideas of his I'd wholeheartedly disagree with, especially in his attitude towards refusing independence to colonies until he had no more choice in the matter. But I am impressed with his focus on issues that tended to be more universal and less partisan.
If we were to learn from this, what issues could the right and left support together?
Your ideas?
While I identify with neither the right nor the left, if I was forced to choose, I'd probably go moderate left. Yet despite this, coupled with Winston Churchill being conservative, I still can't help but agree on many of his points, even if usually only in principle.
If you should read the following speech of his, you'll find that while the details of his ideas are conservative, and might even come across as a overly anglocentric, the underlying principles are quite universally acceptable to moderates on both the right and the left, I should think:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/...cfm?pageid=424
And the Atlantic Charter (I don't see what there is in this that either the right or left can really disagree on):
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/...cfm?pageid=519
And many other speaches of his deal with equally universal principles.
What do you think? Would Churchill be a model for conservatives to breach the gap between the moderate right and left? Now don't get me wrong: there are many ideas of his I'd wholeheartedly disagree with, especially in his attitude towards refusing independence to colonies until he had no more choice in the matter. But I am impressed with his focus on issues that tended to be more universal and less partisan.
If we were to learn from this, what issues could the right and left support together?
Your ideas?
