2012-05-27

Social mood and American politics

During negative social mood, some people will fight more with the "other side,", some will fight with their own side, and some will get fed up and quit. Here's a good article by Michael Fumento, an independent journalist who considers himself a conservative, but now breaks with the right over their attitudes. In his piece, he refers to the "extreme right," not in the sense of their policies, but in their rhetoric.

My break with the extreme right
The new right cannot advance a conservative agenda precisely because, other than a few small holdouts like the American Conservative magazine or that battleship that refuses to become a museum, George Will, it is not itself conservative. Pod people are running the show. It has no such capability; no such desire. I find that disturbing for obvious reasons. But, based on my own conversations with liberals, I think – nay, I know – that if more of these allegedly godless, treasonous people understood real conservatism a lot would embrace many conservative positions.

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