@Gary7gil@dohnnymaga@cpscott16@CasuallyGreg Nowhere is Blair quoted as actually saying it - writers are going to try and give an audience something that connects to today’s sensibilities but no one at Lincoln’s time was claiming to be a conservative. Never mind that abolition was a radical progressive change.
@Gary7gil@cpscott16@CasuallyGreg Yes. Dramatizations and script writing do not require accuracy or real quotes. This is common throughout playwriting and scripts and movies.
@DomitrianA@RealHickory Firstly, this is not an Aristotle quote but a quote by Guillaume Faye - so it is an interpretation of Aristotle.
Secondly, while Aristotle was great and helped us discover logic and virtue - political thought has long surpassed Greek philosophers.
Let’s forget that Christianity had a 1800+ year run of destroying lives in Europe and around the globe before Communism ever existed, and 700 years before Islam. And even into the 20th century the slaughter in the name of Christianity is very much real.
@Gary7gil@cpscott16@CasuallyGreg Yes, helped *organize* - did not found it. The founding were several people. Henry Jarvis Raymond also helped organize the Republican Party.
@Gary7gil@cpscott16@CasuallyGreg No, it wasn’t. Conservatism wasn’t a movement until the 20th century. The Republican Party was founded by anti-slavery activists, whigs, and free soil democrats - and was also not founded by one person.