Burke held that “men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites,” continuing that “society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.”29 For the true conservative confronted with a sociopathic electorate, the correct strategy was more experts, more voting of conscience, less catering to the passions of the masses; no Boomer was putting “moral chains” on his “appetites.” But contemporary neoliberal culture demands a
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