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Conservatism is rather
well-represented in the public square in the United States;
rather less so in Great Britain
and the other common-law countries. It may come as a shock,
but in many places elsewhere in the world, in particular
continental Europe,
conservatism has virtually
no representation at all .
These are the countries of the Civil Law Tradition.
The countries of the civil law,
together with their allies in the political and chattering classes in the
common-law countries, are conducting a constant, unremitting propaganda
campaign against the Common Law, browbeating the populace into a deep sense
of guilt if not resentment about their own inherited tradition. This is
especially in evidence among the English, the focus of years of antagonism
and negative press from England’s
continental “partners” in the European Union. Such a consistent drum beat
of negative press takes its toll. England now
appears to have thrown in the towel, showing a complete willingness to
assume the Civil Law Tradition as its own. Integration into a fully
federated, sovereign European Union should not be far behind.
For all practical purposes, that
leaves the United
States as the
last bastion of the Common Law. It is the residual conservatism of America that
makes it the target of recrimination and reproach the world over. It is
because America
is still ruled in significant degree by the Common-Law Tradition that it is
made into a Great Satan by the other nations of the world. In America,
individual citizens are free to live their lives and work out their own
destinies to a greater degree than anywhere else in the world. It is this
that so grates on the nerves of America’s
enemies. For the Civil-Law Tradition rules those other countries, leaving
no place for a true conservatism based in the Common-Law Tradition. And so
they must make war against America, the
bastion of that great tradition.
The end of the Cold War did not
bring an end to the struggle with Communism. Communism only underwent a
transformation and now has reappeared in the guise of Globalism. Globalism comprises various movements
– environmentalism, human rights, so-called minority rights
(anti-discrimination/affirmative action, women’s rights, homosexual
rights), universal health care, energy rationing, managed trade – but is
geared toward one goal: the establishment of an all-embracing,
all-determining universal absolute sovereignty.
THE NEED
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