right of workers are really i think the front lines of the battle between left and right today russell russell kirk in one nine hundred fifty one hundred fifty three when he wrote the conservative mind. you know started out with burke but around that time he had given an interview in which he had basically predicted the sixty's as suggested that if the middle class america became large enough and powerful enough if if if the average person the people that john adams of america's first conservative president arguably used to refer to as the rabble if those people were given enough power you would see riots in the streets and in the one nine hundred sixty s. william f. buckley on his program firing line would frequently cite that i used to watch it and say see we're seeing the fulfillment of kirk's prediction these people have been given too much power the blacks are rising up in demanding power and now the women are burning their bras the young kids don't want to go off to war they're saying no to authority figures this is a society that is disintegrating because we've given too much power to the mi

the most important was a fellow named russell kirk. end russell kirk was, in many ways, like buckley, many ways not like buckley, but at the very early age of 35 years old, assistant professor of what is now michigan state committee wrote a book called of the conservative mind through burke elliott that became a sensation. it was really a doctoral thesis and, again it was unlikely the such a book would become a sensation, but it caught the attention of certain editors at time magazine, and they ballyhooed very high in a special for the july edition of the magazine in 1953, and the book took off. and -- and kirk argued that bird is the true school of conservative thought. burt argued that libertarians were realistic and what counted was what he called the permanent things, religion, tradition, a community park literature. and he argued that -- one of his phrases was, you know, everything is not about getting another piece of pie and another pat of butter. society in zero we are about is about more important things than just economic growth. and he