I am. This upcoming book from Dallas Morning News editor Rod Dreher will explain. So what do Crunchy Cons believe?
1. We are conservatives who stand outside the conservative mainstream; therefore, we can see things that matter more clearly.
2. Modern conservatism has become too focused on money, power, and the accumulation of stuff, and insufficiently concerned with the content of our individual and social character.
3. Big business deserves as much skepticism as big government.
4. Culture is more important than politics and economics.
5. A conservatism that does not practice restraint, humility, and good stewardship—especially of the natural world—is not fundamentally conservative.
6. Small, Local, Old, and Particular are almost always better than Big, Global, New, and Abstract.
7. Beauty is more important than efficiency.
8. The relentlessness of media-driven pop culture deadens our senses to authentic truth, beauty, and wisdom.
9. We share Russell Kirk’s conviction that “the institution most essential to conserve is the family.”
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I guess I am a crunchy con too, going by that list. But since that list doesn't describe anything that your boy Sean Hannity would call conservative, why don'y you just call yourself what I do?
Liberal.
Liberal, in the modern sense, is incorrect. Classical liberal, in the mode of Burke or Adam Smith, is more accurate.
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