A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
From Christopher Lasch
Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.
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