Would you care to expand on your thoughts on this point? Okay I confess. This is a reference to this article (http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1065064/posts) which was subject of a lot of discussion a few months back. "There has always been a tension in conservatism between those who favor more liberty and those who want more morality. But what's indisputable is that Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a move toward the latter — the use of the government to impose and subsidize certain morals over others. He is fusing Big Government liberalism with religious-right moralism. It's the nanny state with more cash. Your cash, that is. And their morals."
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Date: 2004-10-18 04:35 pm (UTC)Okay I confess. This is a reference to this article (http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1065064/posts) which was subject of a lot of discussion a few months back.
"There has always been a tension in conservatism between those who favor more liberty and those who want more morality. But what's indisputable is that Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is a move toward the latter — the use of the government to impose and subsidize certain morals over others. He is fusing Big Government liberalism with religious-right moralism. It's the nanny state with more cash. Your cash, that is. And their morals."