tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11110174.post4235826851203699746..comments2024-02-26T23:17:11.132+13:00Comments on Blessed Economist: Two ConservativesRon McKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03989126812730583009noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11110174.post-79740644014712379392016-03-11T11:45:37.808+13:002016-03-11T11:45:37.808+13:00The problem is exacerbated by the changes in the D...The problem is exacerbated by the changes in the Democratic Party since the late '60s. Liberalism (using the term in the US sense) is now essentially the politics of campus radicalism gone mainstream, and is a very different animal from the liberalism of Roosevelt, Truman, Humphrey, and Johnson. (The 1968 Democratic Convention clearly displayed the rupture and the coming of the new era, as Humphrey watched aghast the antics of people who were supposed to be on his side.) Many people who are socially conservative do not necessarily care for the economic views of the economic conservatives, and coexist uneasily with them in the Republican Party, but they have no alternative because of the New Left's bundling of issues. If you want economic policies reminiscent of the New Deal and Fair Deal--in other words, policies that were mainstream for decades--you also must vote in favor of abortion, homosexual marriage, boys using the girls' locker room because they "identify" as female, limitations of "offensive" speech on college campuses, etc. Don't like capital punishment? You have to vote for a party that does like abortion. Don't like war but do like capital punishment? Too bad, because neither party will let you divide those two. Here's a perfect illustration of the American political scene: last December, my wife was surprised to hear religious Christmas music playing in a health-food store. I told her that yes, that was surprising, that one normally hears religious music in a gun shop. We laughed about it, but it's actually a frustrating situation. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com