dglenn's Journal

QotD

"The Buckley piece [...] explained that since history is written by the victors, anything Conservatives do is justified as long as they win. Fuck fairness, fuck democracy, fuck concern for others. He didn't directly say, 'cheating is justified, lies are justified, dirty tricks are justified' but he was pretty clear that if we were supposed to have concern for fairness to others then those 'others' darn well should have sided with the victors. His article was quite clear that you shouldn't worry if something you are doing is unethical, unfair, or bad; just be concerned about whether you will be able to cover your tracks when rewriting history. If you're going to be the one that writes the history book, nothing you did was cheating, lying, nor dirty. [...]

"As defined by Buckley, the entire conservative movement is based on this morally bankrupt idea... and he's proud of it, spent a life promoting it, and died believing he had made the world a better place by rebirthing the movement."

-- yesthattom, 2008-03-02