Time for separation?
Book Review, Libertarianism, Uncategorized
Can two walk together except they be agreed
(Amos 3,3)
I’m reading now Ryan Sager’s new book,The elephant in the room , with great joy. In the book Sager review and analyze the historical roots of the conservative movement and the forming rift between its two factions.
After winning the majority in both houses and two terms of President George Bush the conservative movement testing its core values and its future. If in the past, while not in power, The differences between the ultimate goals of the social conservatives and the libertarians - The main two factions of the conservative movement - where hidden, They aren’t any more. Sager eloquently describes the reasons both, the libertarians and the social conservatives, joined together to form the modern conservative movement in the 50’s and their journey to power. He than analyzes the reasons why the social conservatives start turning a way from the ideas of small government and liberty.
It is crucial moment for those of us which are concern with Libertarian ideas. We, or more correctly I, were not aware for the true meaning of the , mistakenly identified as election slogan, compassionate conservatism. It seems that the war on terror and its real menace is being used as an excuse to strengthen the executive brunch . In addition the social conservatives introducing a new area of intrusive government .
To Skeptics, that sounded an awful like saying America need less bad big government and more good big government - with "bad" meaning Democrat-controlled and "good" meaning Republican-controlled.
The skeptics are still waiting to be proved wrong.
The Libertarian faction of the Republican party has to choose, based on the coming mid-term elections and the 2008 presidential election, if they are able to promote, and accomplish, small government and greater freedom. The answer might be, unlike Sager’s optimism, negative.
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