Russel Kirk e os "liberators"

Que com Robert Nisbet formam o mais interessante pensamento conservador moderno, avisava em "THE POLITICS OF PRUDENCE"-"The Error of Ideology":

“Ideology is inverted religion, denying the Christian doctrine of salvation through grace in death, and substituting collective salvation here on earth through violent revolution”

“I suggested that some Americans, Conservative-inclined ones among them, might embrace an ideology of Democratic Capitalism, or New World Order, or International Democratism”

“I am not of the opinion that it would be well to pour the heady wine of a new ideology down the throats of the American young…what we need to impar tis political prudence, not political belligerance. Ideology is the disease, not he cure. All ideologies, uncluding the ideology of vox populi vox dei, are hostile to enduring order and justice and freedom. For ideology is the politics of passionate unreason.”

E umas notas curiosas sobre precedentes no espirito "libertador" ("Monarchies and War", Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn):

1) When the French army during the Napoleonic Wars invaded the Tyrol, they declared solemnly: “We bring you liberty whether you like it or not!” Amusing when one realizes that ever since the late fourteenth century the Tyroleans had a Landtag where all four estates were represented and they all had equal power.

2) A curious dialogue developed tween Grey and the American ambassador, Walter Hines Page. The theme was the Mexican reluctance to adopt a full-fledged democracy, which the United States, after all, had fostered and abetted in Mexico even before the days they had supported Benito Juarez, the murderer of Emperor Maximilian.71 And such was the exchange of opinions:

Grey: Suppose you have to intervene, what then?
Page: Make ‘em vote and live by their decisions.
Grey: But suppose they will not so live?
Page: We’ll go in again and make’em vote again.
Grey: And keep this up for 200 years?
Page: Yes. The United States will be here for 200 years and it
can continue to shoot them for that little space till
they learn to vote and rule themselves.

With that unsophisticated mentality, the “young democracies” were forced to “enjoy” self-government, to rave about their “new republican liberty.”