Brilliant analysis of modern conservatism – “so disgusted by the world it helped to make that….”

I can say brilliant because it wasn’t me. Recently I posted a quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

And a friend I respect (have never met – this is the 21st century) replied with a typical (for this person) succinct and incisive comment.

So spot-on it hurts. Although not as much as modern “Conservatism” does. 

Key features of modern “conservatism” – it’s now so disgusted by the world it helped to make in the 1980s and ever since that it’s

a) looking for scapegoats (well, it can’t be to blame, of course!) ;

b) becoming Leninist-Maoist in method and values (well, the only way to get back to 1955 or earlier, much earlier, is to tear everything down).

In addition, it’s so addicted to fossil energy that it doesn’t care about conserving the planet at large or local eco-heritage. In short, it’s distinguished by its refusal to conserve anything. With the exception of fossil rentier wealth, of course. 

You’d think, wouldn’t you, that the modern ‘left’ would be able to say all this. But no.