{"id":349805,"date":"2018-02-25T15:05:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-conservative-movement-is-a-big-con\/"},"modified":"2018-02-25T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-25T14:05:05","slug":"the-conservative-movement-is-a-big-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-conservative-movement-is-a-big-con\/","title":{"rendered":"The Conservative Movement Is a Big Con"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 Cache --><!-- S3:S3:Original -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Time constraints preclude the thorough analysis of \u201cThe Big Con,\u201d the so-called \u201cconservative movement,\u201d that this subject deserves.\u00a0 For now, however, suffice it to say that the conservative movement is largely a fiction constructed by the merchants of Big Conservative media\u2014to whom, from this point onward, I refer simply as Big Cons.<\/p>\n<p>As long as those of the Big Cons remain the faces of the official right, the left will continue to do what it has been doing for the last so many decades: It will continue cleaning house in the \u201ccultural wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Big Cons could never so much as remotely concede this as a possibility, much less an actuality.\u00a0 Such an admission would, after all, be bad for business.\u00a0 Yet it is true all the same.<\/p>\n<p>Simply put, Big Cons have neither the will nor even the imagination necessary to fight the left on the terms that the left has established.<\/p>\n<p>To put it even more bluntly, Big Cons <em>fear <\/em>the left.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, even this manner of speaking understates the case: Big Cons are <em>terrified <\/em>of the left.<\/p>\n<p>So as to avoid misunderstanding, the referent here isn\u2019t limited to the fear of professional ruination and\/or the loss of social status, i.e. all of those invitations to Manhattan and D.C. cocktail parties that so many Big Cons crave. The fear to which I refer is more primal than this:<\/p>\n<p>Big Cons fear for their physical safety lest they get on the bad side of the left\u2019s more rabid faction.<\/p>\n<p>Leftists make noise, issue uncompromising demands, organize in massive numbers, clog streets, and use abrasive, even outrageous, language\u2014tactics designed to <em>intimidate <\/em>others.\u00a0 Yet leftists do more than just intimidate.\u00a0 They attempt to slander and ruin reputations and livelihoods. They are also known for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2018\/02\/jack-kerwick\/the-big-con-and-why-the-left-will-continue-to-win\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time constraints preclude the thorough analysis of \u201cThe Big Con,\u201d the so-called \u201cconservative movement,\u201d that this subject deserves.\u00a0 For now, however, suffice it to say that the conservative movement is largely a fiction constructed by the merchants of Big Conservative media\u2014to whom, from this point onward, I refer simply as Big Cons. As long as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-349805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}