In his rush to mock, JPod is missing the point I’m making which is actually in a great deal of sympathy with his Merle Haggardism. And it is that traditional conservatism must retain a deep respect for what Illich called the vernacular — the ways that ordinary people try through all the difficulties to preserve what is good and permanent in life. To the extent things get in the way of that, those things ought to be resisted by conservatives.
