A long train of abuses, November 10, 2025.

Power is of an encroaching nature.

The Federalist paper is number 48.

So let me tell you what the problem is.

Once upon a time, R.L. Daveny complained about the kind of

conservatism that never conserves anything. Sometimes foreseeing is indistinguishable from just seeing.

That is just the first stage of the problem we need to address, but it is essential that we

grasp this first principle before attempting to understand the next problem, one level up,

the problem that we will be soaking

with lighter fluid in just a few moments. Here, let me quote Dabney for you. Perhaps it might help

if you make a point of reading this next bit aloud to yourself. Quote, it may be inferred again

that the present movement for women's rights will certainly prevail from the history of its only

opponent, Northern Conservatism. This Northern Conservatism is a party which never conserves anything.

Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the Progressive Party

and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at

last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today

one of the accepted principles of conservatism. It is now conservative only in affecting to resist

the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by

some third revolution to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that

follows radicalism as it moves forward toward perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it,

and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor,

wherewith shall it be salted. Its impotency is not hard indeed to explain. It is worthless because it is the

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