The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically.
Just as I got older, I think I've become more and more conservative.
I think we have erred on the side of being too conservative so far, to tell you the truth.
We'll need to revise the tired assumption that people automatically become more conservative as they grow older.
Though claiming to represent a conservative form of Christianity, the Religious Right is politically a form of Protestant liberalism.
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
It could fairly be said that the U.S. is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world. As our neighbors to the south elect left-wing or even socialist governments, we are lurching further to the right. As Europe becomes less engaged to the Church, we are becoming more fundamentalist.
What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.
What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.