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Trump Will The West Survive From Donald Trumps speech in Warsaw today We have to remember that our defense is not just a commitment of money, it is a commitment of will. Because as the Polish experience reminds us, the defense of the West ultimately rests not only on means but also on the will of its people to prevail and be successful and get what you have to have. The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive. Do we have the confidence in our values to defend them at any costDo we have enough respect for our citizens to protect our borders Do we have the desire and the courage to preserve our civilization in the face of those who would subvert and destroy itWe can have the largest economies and the most lethal weapons anywhere on Earth, but if we do not have strong families and strong values, then we will be weak and we will not survive. I agree with this, of course. But look, it seems to me that as a collective entity, we dont have enough confidence in the values that produce strong families and strong communities to live them out today, much less defend them from outside attack. The presidents remarks in Poland today sent me back to a November 2. I did with the Polish Catholic philosopher and conservative statesman Ryszard Legutko, in which I asked him various questions about the meaning of Trumps victory. Here is a relevant excerpt for today DREHER Trump is a politician of the nationalist Right, but he is not a conservative in any philosophical or cultural sense. Had the vote gone only a bit differently in some states, today we would be talking about the political demise of American conservatism. Instead, the Republican Party is going to be stronger in government than it has been in a very long time but the party has been shaken to its core by Trumps destruction of its establishment. Churches of Christ do not sing a cappella because we dislike other kinds of music. Days To Die Alpha 5 Cracked. Most of us have as many songs on iPods as the next person. We do not lack financial. I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed working with Bedrock Divorce Advisors. Jeff, the analyses you prepared were instrumental in helping our client understand. Is it credible to say that Trump destroyed conservatism or is it more accurate to say that the Republican Party, through its own follies, destroyed conservatism as we have known it, and opened the door for the nationalist Trump LEGUTKO Conservatism has always been problematic in America, where the word itself has acquired more meanings, some of them quite bizarre, than in Europe. A quite common habit, to give an example, of mentioning libertarianism and conservatism in one breath, thereby suggesting that they are somehow essentially related, is proof enough that a conservative agenda is difficult for the Americans to swallow. If I am not mistaken, the Republican Party has long relinquished, with very few exceptions, any closer link with conservatism. If conservatism, whatever the precise definition, has something to do with a continuity of culture, Christian and Classical roots of this culture, classical metaphysics and anthropology, beauty and virtue, a sense of decorum, liberal education, family, republican paideia, and other related notions, these are not the elements that constitute an integral part of an ideal type of an Republican identity in todays America. Whether it has been different before, I am not competent to judge, but certainly there was a time when the intellectual institutions somehow linked to the Republican Party debated these issues. The new generations of the neocons gave up on big ideas while the theocons, old or new, never managed to have a noticeable impact on the Republican mainstream. Given that there is this essential philosophical weakness within the modern Republican identity, Donald Trump does not look like an obvious person to change it by inspiring a resurgence of conservative thinking. I do not exclude however, unlikely as it seems today, that the new administration will need solely for instrumental reasons some big ideas to mobilize its electorate and to give them a sense of direction, and that a possible candidate to perform this function will be some kind of conservatism. Liberalism, libertarianism and saying no to everything will certainly not serve the purpose. Nationalism looks good and played its role during two or three months of the campaign, but might be insufficient for the four eight years that will follow. Though the Republicans will soon have their hands firmly on the levers of political power, cultural institutions especially academia and the news and entertainment media are still thoroughly progressive. In The Demon in Democracy, you write that it is hard to imagine freedom without classical philosophy and the heritage of antiquity, without Christianity and scholasticism and many other components of the entire Western civilization. How can we hope to return to the roots of Western civilization when the culture forming institutions are so hostile to it It is true that we live at a time of practically one orthodoxy which the majority of intellectuals and artists piously accept, and this orthodoxy being some kind of liberal progressivism has less and less connection with the foundations of Western civilization. This is perhaps more visible in Europe than in the US. In Europe, the very term Europe has been consistently applied to the European Union. Today the phrase more Europe does not mean more classical education, more Latin and Greek, more knowledge about classical philosophy and scholasticism, but it means giving more power to the European Commission. No wonder an increasing number of people when they hear about Europe associate it with the EU, and not with Plato, Thomas Aquinas or Johann Sebastian Bach. It seems thus obvious that those who want to strengthen or, as is more often the case, reintroduce classical culture in the modern world will not find allies among the liberal elites. For a liberal it is natural to distance himself from the classical philosophy, from Christianity and scholasticism rather than to advocate their indispensability for the cultivation of the Western mind. AVXh2cU1GbrF2asZDZwcWP.jpg' alt='Instrumental I Will Survive' title='Instrumental I Will Survive' />After all, these philosophies they would say were created in a pre modern non democratic and non liberal world by men who despised women, kept slaves and took seriously religious superstitions. But it is not only the liberal prejudices that are in the way. A break up with the classical tradition is not a recent phenomenon, and we have been for too long exposed to the world from which this tradition was absent. Contract Wars Hack. Paul Hart, a former Royal Navy lieutenant commander, offers advice on how to survive should you find yourself stranded on a desert island, including tips on finding. Italy has far more to lose, STRATFORs Italian sources keep stressing, than anyone else involved in the U. S. European coalition. Italys business. A Lego designer explains how CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp took the Danish toy company from the brink of disaster to its most successful stage yet. There is little chance that a change may be implemented through a democratic process. Considering that in every Western country education has been, for quite a long time, in a deep crisis and that no government has succeeded in overcoming this crisis, a mere idea of bringing back classical education into schools in which young people can hardly read and write in their own native language sounds somewhat surrealist. A rule that bad education drives out good education seems to prevail in democratic societies. And yet I cannot accept the conclusion that we are doomed to live in societies in which neo barbarism is becoming a norm. How can we reverse this process thenIn countries where education is primarily the responsibility of the state, it is the governments that may hypothetically at least have some role to play by using the economic and political instruments to stimulate the desired changes in education. In the US I suspect the governments role is substantially more reduced. So far however the European governments, including the conservative ones, have not made much progress in reversing the destructive trend.