When the right goes left, nowhere left to turn
Those on the right are positively giddy about the protracted race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. Their pleasure is the result, most obviously, of the opportunity cost that Democrats incur in the race. Clinton and Obama are forced to use their messages and expenditures to undermine one another — not advance a negative image of John McCain. The upshot: better electoral prospects for McCain, the candidate whom most Republicans support.
But their satisfaction is prompted by more than mere advantage in a political contest....
This was an excellently written and well articulated piece Peter, a very clear vision.
Your resident Lefty,
Luis Medina
Unchosen obligations are not the foundation of conservatism in America. It is precisely the autonomy of the individual that provides the moral basis for capitalism, democracy, and religious belief in this country. The idea that we should have various duties to our community is exactly what drove leftist ideology since Karl Marx, by contrast.
Thank God there are some conservatives left at Yale.