I recently came across an interesting blog, the Patriot’s Den over at ForMyKountry, a start-up firearms manufacturer. The founder, Jim Pontillo, seems to be my sort of guy in terms of his philosophy. Indeed, I’ve bee quite pleased by much of what I’ve read at the site.
Take, for instance, his current opinion piece. He makes this assessment of the definitional problem in discussions of liberalism and conservatism, one that I cannot disagree with in the least.
It is virtually impossible to debate this philosophy with its adherents because it is such a dark and negative ideology no one will ever admit it to be their belief. A Wikipedia search will tell you liberalism emphasizes individual rights, equality of opportunity, and guarantees freedom of thought and speech, all venerated attributes of our Constitution, and all attributes that adherents who lean politically to the right want to conserve.Further investigation of Wikipedia and the term Conservatism will reveal a liberal’s view of conservatism; that it has no ideology, but that it is only tied inflexibly to outmoded ideologies of the past. I suppose that is accurate if you believe Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, Franklin, and others, gave us the outmoded ideologies of freedom of speech, religion, and the tumultuous inalienable rights that no man or government can claim authority over.
Exactly.
Those who read me here will note that I frequently argue in favor of individual rights, especially when they are violated in the name of the “group right” not to be offended. Similarly, I’ve argued rather stridently in favor of speech which liberals seek to shut down in the name of political correctness. I support the equal opportunity for every individual, which means that preferences based upon race, sex, or other attributes should be rejected as contrary to the American value of treating each individual as an individual. Indeed, according to the definition of liberalism cited by Pontillo, I would undeniably be a liberal – but no liberal would ever confuse my positions with their collectivist claptrap. Neither would they think of Jim as a liberal, despite his defense of those same values.
Jim doesn’t hold his fire when he sees a moving target. And I don’t agree with him on everything. But I find his writing to be stirring and logical, with a principled outlook on the world. I’ll be looking in on him from time to time – and I encourage you to do so as well.
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