[496] in libertarians
Re: conservatism rising
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vernon Imrich)
Sat Dec 10 13:49:49 1994
To: libertarians@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 1994 13:48:10 EST
From: Vernon Imrich <vimrich@MIT.EDU>
|hhuang>
|> Many leftists and liberals believe in a substantially
|> deregulated society when it comes to social issues. Unfortunately, a
|> lot of them would rather socialize the economy than liberalize
|> society. But now that socializing the economy has been derailed, some
|> folks are reconsidering their priorities. What's more important? PC,
|> socialism, or civil liberties? What's most worth defending?
We may find that a lot of leftists are not so enchanted with big
government when they are not the one's running it. When the speech
codes start to become Buchannon's "West is best" garbage instead of
the current PC, they may find they'd just as soon not have ANY
speech codes at all.
|> Expect conservatives to try to implement parts of a
|> conservative social agenda.
You should hear Newt rail against the "drug users."
Also, I expect to see the GOP become more and more government
friendly as they assume control. The term limits back down is
just the first step. We all think our own version of leadership is
enlightened. We'll see how much the GOP was really anti-government
and how much the GOP was just anti-government-because-we're-not-in-
charge-at-the-moment.
Anyone see the Weld quotes in today's Globe? How easy it is for
a person to change their outlook, when they go from being an outsider
(1990 Weld) to an insider (1994 Weld).
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