What a week! I haven't written this many posts for a while. I feel a bit like one of those people who hasn't talked for a month and then starts out with a croak and ends up with a sore throat!
Chris Trotter's Dom Post opinion this morning was hilarious, trying to paint "the right" as those who would take away young women's freedom. Mr Tips has already written on this, but I'd like to add to his point that abortion is a moral issue that transcends left/right politics.
In NZ, our politics is really split on economics - not morality. The only fly in the ointment is that the left of the spectrum is trying to shift the moral framework of the country and the right is blithely following along without having much of a clue and to what is happening and why (but it's all good, isn't it?).
Which is why, when I started this blog, I named us NZ Conservative. We're not conservative in the sense that we are automatically aligned with right-wing economic types. We are conservative in that we revere what is true, we are not following any utopian fad. So, we may want reform in areas that are out of whack, but will not want to toss away the good, the true and the beautiful - because that is what we want to conserve. We will also not want change just for changes sake, but that doesn't mean we are against change that will improve things.
I mention all this because I came across a short article just now that really articulates what true conservatism is.
And now the floor is open. It's chatting time!
Chris Trotter's Dom Post opinion this morning was hilarious, trying to paint "the right" as those who would take away young women's freedom. Mr Tips has already written on this, but I'd like to add to his point that abortion is a moral issue that transcends left/right politics.
In NZ, our politics is really split on economics - not morality. The only fly in the ointment is that the left of the spectrum is trying to shift the moral framework of the country and the right is blithely following along without having much of a clue and to what is happening and why (but it's all good, isn't it?).
Which is why, when I started this blog, I named us NZ Conservative. We're not conservative in the sense that we are automatically aligned with right-wing economic types. We are conservative in that we revere what is true, we are not following any utopian fad. So, we may want reform in areas that are out of whack, but will not want to toss away the good, the true and the beautiful - because that is what we want to conserve. We will also not want change just for changes sake, but that doesn't mean we are against change that will improve things.
I mention all this because I came across a short article just now that really articulates what true conservatism is.
And now the floor is open. It's chatting time!