The Conservative Mind

[AntiochusIII]

The article makes a rather unfounded assumption that the political elite represents all the attitudes of the general population -- curiously enough, "elite," with all its negative connotation, is used in the article to refer explicitly to the Left alone; bias? It spends more than half the article going on an extended comparison about how the Left is unified and generic, stale, even, while the Conservatives are diverse and vibrant, before finally presenting what the author considers to be the principles of a "Conservative Mind."

...the principles which contradict themselves.

It assumes the worst of one side and the best of another and spends far too much time proclaiming the superiority of the Right over the Left. Diversity in the Right is considered an open debate atmosphere and a united attitude in the Left shepherding by the supposed "elite."

Propaganda.