01-10-2015, 08:58 PM
(01-10-2015, 05:01 PM)Big Rock Wrote: I don't think there is a father of modern conservatism (or modern liberalism). Instead, I think there are a shit-load of modern opportunists on both sides who are trying to leverage new-media tools to foist their personal brand on a mass audience so they can shift additional units, push additional products, and expand their personal market share. It beats working for a living.
From WIKI:
"Edmund Burke PC (/b?rk/; 12 January [NS] 1729[1] – 9 July 1797) was an Irish[2][3] statesman born in Dublin; author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.
Mainly, he is remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro–French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox.[4]
Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the nineteenth century.[5] Since the twentieth century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of conservatism.[6][7]