tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post8036430783940049623..comments2024-03-28T23:50:49.886-05:00Comments on Throne, Altar, Liberty: Thanks, But No Thanks, Mr. Moriarty!Gerry T. Nealhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12137796641408373451noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post-46848310010849588372019-11-21T06:42:15.278-06:002019-11-21T06:42:15.278-06:00I would say that if the tone of my writings someti...I would say that if the tone of my writings sometimes comes across as rather anti-American I hope that it is clear that it is attempts to Americanize Canada that I object to and that I do not begrudge Americans their right to honour their own history and tradition. My preference for my own country's Loyalist history and traditions, and her constitution of parliamentary monarchy, rests upon both the fact that they are those of my own country, and that they retain more from the pre-Modern tradition of Christendom. <br /><br />The phenomenon of politically correct "wokeness" that has been afflicting both of our countries, and indeed, all of Western civilization, for a few decades now but especially over the last five years, is one that many people on both sides of the 49th Parallel are very opposed to, and on both sides of the border that opposition can be rooted in either a) the traditionalist recognition of a mortal enemy in its anti-white, anti-Christian, anti-male, anti-heterosexual, agenda, b) the freedom lover's alarm at its tyrannical, totalitarian, spirit, or c) both. C), of course, is my own position.<br /><br />While I disagree with the classical liberalism that inspired the American Revolution and would see it as the ancestor of the much-less-libertarian progressive liberalism of our own day, I do respect that when it came to framing your own republican constitution, the more rabid liberals, like Mr. Paine, were excluded from the process, to which I would attribute the fact that your experiment in republicanism was, at least until 1860, more successful than that of the French a little over a decade later. <br /><br />I also, very much appreciate the insights of those, such as Dr. M. E. Bradford, whom you might recall was the figure over whom the original paleoconservative/neoconservative divide began in the early Reagan administration, who stress the distinction between the different cultures that grew out of the original settlements in Virginia and New England, that the two co-existed fairly peacefully in the United States at the time of its founding, but that the war that began in 1860 was an attempt by the latter, the more liberal of the two, to subjugate the former, one which was all too successful. The Southern culture, being aristocratic, landowning, agrarian, chivalrous, and honour-based, was a lot closer to the Old Order of Christendom than the Puritan-based culture of the Northeast. This is a large part of why there was so much sympathy with the South in pre-Confederation Canada - a sympathy, retained well into the twentieth century by such Canadian Tories as historian Donald Creighton, novelist Mazo de la Roche, and even George Grant. Sadly, that has now become a very small minority position in my country. The present day efforts to eliminate memorials to Confederate war heroes disgusts me as much the more recent efforts up here to get rid of statues of Sir John A. Macdonald, General Cornwallis, etc. up here. Gerry T. Nealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12137796641408373451noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3977100651062963844.post-65427925499889088602019-11-20T18:36:47.343-06:002019-11-20T18:36:47.343-06:00As an avid reader of this blog, and an American li...As an avid reader of this blog, and an American libertarian who believes that a constitutional monarchy would have less incentive to erode liberty than a democratic republic, do you have anything you'd like to say to your American readership? (I know I can't be the only American reader of yours.)Connor Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04779141759688487875noreply@blogger.com