11-09-2019, 05:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2019, 08:08 PM by Anthony '58.)
A nearly 27-minute video about neoliberalism - and not one mention of social, moral, and religious issues and the very real role they play?
Michael Lind pointed this role out in his twin best-sellers of the '90s - The Next American Nation and Up From Conservatism: Why The Right Is Wrong For America. In these books, Lind introduced the concept of politics as a compass rather than a spectrum, whose four cardinal points are as follows:
Conservatism: Adhering to the conservative position on both economic and social issues.
Libertarianism: Conservative on economic issues but liberal on social issues.
Left-liberalism: Adhering to the liberal position on both economic and social issues.
National liberalism: Liberal on economic issues but conservative on social issues.
A classification of facebook pages using these categories would appear to be about 45% conservative, 45% left-liberal, 9% libertarian, and 1% national liberal, if even that.
But is that in effect how we are divided as a nation?
Michael Lind pointed this role out in his twin best-sellers of the '90s - The Next American Nation and Up From Conservatism: Why The Right Is Wrong For America. In these books, Lind introduced the concept of politics as a compass rather than a spectrum, whose four cardinal points are as follows:
Conservatism: Adhering to the conservative position on both economic and social issues.
Libertarianism: Conservative on economic issues but liberal on social issues.
Left-liberalism: Adhering to the liberal position on both economic and social issues.
National liberalism: Liberal on economic issues but conservative on social issues.
A classification of facebook pages using these categories would appear to be about 45% conservative, 45% left-liberal, 9% libertarian, and 1% national liberal, if even that.
But is that in effect how we are divided as a nation?
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892