@teleskiguy @Green_Footballs I’m old enough to remember when William F. Buckley was the voice of conservatism. How we have fallen.

— Jim Collins (@jimcollins) February 23, 2015

Bill Buckley was firmly against the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act when they were being debated and he bought in to the blah people aren’t as smart as us chosen peoples. He was a fucking chickenhawk who wrote about the necessity of the Vietnam War - a war that is about as terrible as anything in the human experience, for all parties involved - from a nice cozy office in mid-town Manhattan, never to see anything like what the people who actually experienced the war saw.

But yeah, conservatism in the United States today is way way worse.