Tuesday, February 2, 2010
More than a beginning
The Twelve Points will not teach a conservative everything that he needs to know. For the sake of brevity, I had to remove a lot of sub-points that I do believe that a good conservative ought to understand, and there is no complete substitute for a long-term study of these ideas. (Ideally, this study would be centered around the reading of books that were written for a purpose other than to excite and anger the reader. It is in disregarding and discarding facts, logic, and proven wisdom for unsound reasons that liberals have mutated their philosophy into the grotesque spectacle that it is. A conservative cannot be a strong conservative unless he is learned.) In their current form, however, the Twelve Points contain conservative principles, observations, objectives, and other ideas in the most concentrated form I can imagine. They'll jumpstart the philosophical educations of many conservatives while filling in the gaps in others' knowledge and understanding of conservatism. They are not the final cure for all of conservatism's problems, but they are more than a beginning.
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The Twelve Points are a statement of conservative principles, objectives, philosophy, and additional guiding considerations, composed by Karl Born, a young Indianapolis writer and attorney, beginning in early 2008, completed on July 2, 2009.
The purpose of the Twelve Points is to serve as a delivery mechanism for distilled, concentrated conservative thinking, with the goal of returning clarity and completeness to popular conservatism, and spreading knowledge of the true principles of conservatism throughout the conservative community.
The idea for the Twelve Points, along with much of the content of the document itself, came from the "Seven Points," which was created by a group of conservative college students in 2003 at Indiana University: Grand Old Cause.
Even in light of the 2010 election results, the conservative movement has become confused and aimless. Certain essential conservative principles and considerations have faded from memory and lost their influence. The Twelve Points will help to solve this problem by reminding us of conservative thinking that we may not have considered recently, and by making that thinking available to new, developing conservatives.
Send your questions or ideas to the12points@gmail.com!
The purpose of the Twelve Points is to serve as a delivery mechanism for distilled, concentrated conservative thinking, with the goal of returning clarity and completeness to popular conservatism, and spreading knowledge of the true principles of conservatism throughout the conservative community.
The idea for the Twelve Points, along with much of the content of the document itself, came from the "Seven Points," which was created by a group of conservative college students in 2003 at Indiana University: Grand Old Cause.
Even in light of the 2010 election results, the conservative movement has become confused and aimless. Certain essential conservative principles and considerations have faded from memory and lost their influence. The Twelve Points will help to solve this problem by reminding us of conservative thinking that we may not have considered recently, and by making that thinking available to new, developing conservatives.
Send your questions or ideas to the12points@gmail.com!

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