all this whining and moaning...

Now John Derbyshire, a conservative's conversative (a concon, I guess, hahahaha) is bemoaning the current state of the "conservative" movement.
And damn it all to hell, I can't figure out how to copy and paste. I'm going to have to finish this later. Although I just have to say to conservatives, libertarians, idiotarians, evangelicals, objectivists, John Birch fans, the whole spectrum of what nominally constitutes the right alliance:

1. We will never, ever be able to defeat socialism here on Earth.
2. We will never, ever be able to bring about a return of the Constitution in exile.
3. We will never, ever dismantle the monstrosity that is the United States federal government.
4. We will never, ever be able to convince a substantial plurality of what constitutes the left alliance to abandon their utopian fantasies and come and live in the real world.
5. We are stuck with these realities.

There is again only one solution, but it would take a multi-generation effort of unprecedented scale and scope. It would require that all you conservative intellectuals go back to school and get engineering and physics and particle physics and mechanical engineering and biology and nanotech degrees. It would require every right alliance family to have as many children as they can afford. It would require every conservative moving to consolidate power in a long-term strategic goal of creating not just a political powerbase, but a strategic one as well. And it would require us recognizing that the only way our children and grandchildren will be able to live freely is to leave this planet behind and found colonies within the solar system and within neighboring star systems as quickly as possible. If the energies of the conservative intellectual movement were dedicated to this, possibility, we might actually make it happen.
Otherwise, conservatives should accept what their self-chosen identity really means: that you are left to stand athwart history yelling stop, but not accomplishing anything. In the end, conservatives can only delay socialisms onslaught.
That is of course, why I am not a conservative. There is nothing about our civilization, ultimately that I want to "conserve". To me, the rule of law, market economics, and representative, limited, constitutional government are not conservative ideas. They are revolutionary ideas and will forever remain so. They cannot be institutionalized because there are no institutions to preserve, only the idea itself, and these ideas have expanded over time. The rule of law did not originally apply to all people. Just as today, the rule of law would not extend to a faulty AI that malfunctioned, but one day it will. The market economy of today is vastly different from the one we inherited from our mostly agricultural forefathers. And representative, limited, constitutional government is the most radical idea ever! To value these concepts as highly as I do is to be a liberal, not a conservative. To be a liberal is to be a socialist today and we should stop giving them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to identification. I say you are not a liberal, you are a socialist and I am a liberal! The dubiousness by which the early 20th century progressives (another codeword for socialists that simply didn't stick after people got tired of all their hewing and hawing and just wanted to do what Americans have always wanted to do, have a good time, make some money, and then have a good time) transformed themselves into the liberals of the 30's sickens me. It sickens me that we allowed a conservative/liberal political axis to develop where before there had been none. Differences were differences of policy, not ideology. Everyone in America shared the same ideology, and that ideology was the ideology of the Founders.
We will never be able to bring that time back, and while with hard work and multiple generations of perservearance we might be able to slowly tilt the pendulum away from the inevitable, ultimately, we will be faced with the stark reality that the America that we want simply is not ever going to be. We will have to live with OSHA and the EPA and all the hated alphabet soup agencies and regulations and forms and bullshit that surrounds our daily lives until, well, until. There are no good solutions, there are only choices. And yes, we have terrible choices. The Republicans and the Democrats. Terrible choices. The Republicans hew and haw the right alliance dogma but do nothing about it. The Democrats just made their first tactical political manuever of the 21st century a couple of weeks ago; let's just say the learning curve on that side of the aisle is apparently stuck on stupid. (I'm talking about the Dems not commenting on the Miers controversy). Live in America and watch our culture collapse or leave and risk our lives in a possibly futile effort to colonize the galaxy.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.