Missing the point of conservatism and western culture
Pamela Constable's Washington Post reflection on her conservative Connecticut WASP parents has been making the rounds on the right-wing Internet. Her personal connection with her parents is just that (personal), but the Baby Boomer journalist appears mainly to have become more comfortable with her parents' somewhat moderate political conservatism mainly because she can now see it in contrast with movements that she finds more distasteful, like the Tea Party and Trumpism.
What's most clear, though, is how much she's missing the essential point. Feeling stifled and separated by the cool, hip movements during her youth, she set out to become a "crusading journalist" (telling phrase, that). As a foreign correspondent, she traveled the world and witnessed some of the worst hardships that human beings face, even today. Then:
