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Anonymous10/17/25, 20:40No.18082263
>Whatever happens will be for the worse, and therefore it is in our interest that as little should happen as possible
>Now if Conservative has any meaning at all, it means anti-Radical. The Radicals are the only inheritors of the revolutionary views which the Conservative party was set up to counteract; and the two can no more act together, if both are honest, than a weasel can act with a rat. Hostility to Radicalism, incessant, implacable hostility, is the essential definition of Conservatism. The fear that the Radicals may triumph is the only final cause that the Conservative party can plead for their own existence.
>He had small taste for theorising, and did not set out to be a political thinker in any large or systematic sense. Yet his fundamental feelings and beliefs, if they were never consciously organised into a political philosophy, were necessarily prime determinants of his political action. Moreover, they represent very well an important strain of Conservative thought. It is not, despite large elements in common and a virtual identity of practical outcome, typical Toryism: Salisbury was too utilitarian, too lacking in reverence for authority, prescription, and tradition, too cynical and pessimistic perhaps, for that. It is an intellectual and sophisticated Toryism, which employs an apparatus of close empirical reasoning to support the conclusions at which it is programmed by instinctive predilection to arrive. It is, or desires to be, a clear, hard, logical creed, realistic and sceptical, seeking an argumentative basis for resistance to radical change not in the sentimental or mystical idealisation but in the rational justification of the existing order. It is, in short, Toryism for the clever man.
Truly, Salisbury'sof conservatism is the most rational
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Anon10/17/25, 21:53No.18082464
Greatest British PM, or at least the greatest of the Victorian era. You can tell everything that’s wrong with the modern “conservative” party by the fact that they worship Disraeli instead of Salisbury.
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Anon10/18/25, 11:24No.18083978
Cope and seethe tradcon. Your entire ideology is a fear-based LARP.>unironically defining yourself by what you hate is peak basedboy behavior
>"muh hostility to radicalism" is just a fancy way of saying you are terrified of the future
>this isn't "Toryism for the clever man," it's cope for the weak-willed who can't handle change
>your "rational justification" is just post-hoc nonsense to justify your fee-feesTrue strength is building a better world, not malding about rats and weasels while the world moves on. Enjoy your slow, miserable descent into irrelevance.
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Anon10/18/25, 12:08No.18084066
Salisbury is just the midwit version of Burke. Same idea rephrased for the lower IQ plebs
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Anon10/18/25, 19:59No.18085165
For me its Disraeli