Timothy Birdnow

Agreed. Here is where Conservatives and Libertarians part company. We believe there is a value in tradition and in certain eternal truths that cannot be changed with changing times. Libertarians think that tradition is but a fad of the times and that acceptance of tradition is only predicated on the value it has to the overall liberty of the individual. I sympathize with Libertarianism but in the end I believe there are bigger things involved, greater truths that transcend economics or individualism. In some ways Libertarianism accepts the materialism of the Progressive/Liberal/socialist model.

The Conservative assumes that... any viable society has an orthodoxy—a set of fundamental beliefs, implicit in its way of life, that it cannot and should not and, in any case, will not submit to the vicissitudes of the market place. He assumes, again with the tradition, that no society can survive—or should survive—without

foundations driven deep in religious belief. And he assumes, with the authors of the Declaration of Independence, that no good society can be conceived that does not regard itself as moving through History... under God, ultimately therefore under a law whose source is the divine will, for a purpose that lies outside History."

—Willmoore Kendall, "Contra Mundum," 1971.

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