Why conservatives can't govern
AlterNet
by Alan Wolfe
07/06/06
Contemporary conservatism is a walking contradiction. Unable to shrink government but unwilling to improve it, conservatives attempt to split the difference, expanding government for political gain, but always in ways that validate their disregard for the very thing they are expanding. The end result is not just bigger government, but more incompetent government. 'Ideas,' a distinguished conservative named Richard Weaver once wrote, 'have consequences.' Americans have learned something about the consequences of conservative ideas during the Bush years that they never had to confront in the more amiable Reagan period. As a way of governing, conservatism is another name for disaster...
http://www.alternet.org/story/37947/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Alan Wolfe
07/06/06
Contemporary conservatism is a walking contradiction. Unable to shrink government but unwilling to improve it, conservatives attempt to split the difference, expanding government for political gain, but always in ways that validate their disregard for the very thing they are expanding. The end result is not just bigger government, but more incompetent government. 'Ideas,' a distinguished conservative named Richard Weaver once wrote, 'have consequences.' Americans have learned something about the consequences of conservative ideas during the Bush years that they never had to confront in the more amiable Reagan period. As a way of governing, conservatism is another name for disaster...
http://www.alternet.org/story/37947/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 6. Jul, 14:48
