American conservatives, says Anatole Lieven, of the Carnegie Endowment, a Washington think-tank, are backward-looking, nostalgic for a supposedly golden age in the 1950s; they are defensive, believing that the government and courts are prejudiced against Christianity; and they are driven by grievances over cultural reverses (abortion), sexual mores (gay marriage) and military defeat (Vietnam).No kidding. Remember the Pew Political Typology and its take on Personal Optimism? And what about liberal pessism and looking backward with respect to technological progress? Are liberals driven by their own set of grievances over technological reverses? Then given what they said about computers, I'm starting to wonder if they've got a clue about anything.
Obviously not all conservatives feel so gloomy.
Tuesday, July 19
Backward Looking
According to Degrees of separation
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