What Comes Next
By YUVAL LEVIN AND PETER WEHNER
The New York Sun
Conservatives today are in a funk. The strains of governing, the challenges of war, and the frustration of an unsuccessful mid-term election have contributed to unease and unhappiness. But deeper than these issues is an intellectual fatigue and uncertainty about where the attention of the conservative movement now should be directed.
What domestic issues can unite and motivate conservatives to great political exertions, and can win the allegiance of the public?
The New York Sun
Conservatives today are in a funk. The strains of governing, the challenges of war, and the frustration of an unsuccessful mid-term election have contributed to unease and unhappiness. But deeper than these issues is an intellectual fatigue and uncertainty about where the attention of the conservative movement now should be directed.
What domestic issues can unite and motivate conservatives to great political exertions, and can win the allegiance of the public?
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 10:05 PM
1 Comments:
Once we acknowledge the fact that global temperatures are rising slightly and that human activity is among the causes, we are left to ask what should be done. Here, as in health care, the Democrats' propoe jury is far from decided on whether temperatures are rising on any macro scalesals are a gross overreach. It's as if steep punitive taxation is the goal and climate change arguments are just a means to get there.
For one thing, I see no reason to acknowledge any such thing. The jury is far from decided on whether temperatures are rising on any macro scale, let alone whether the changes are anthropogenic, or even more to the point, whether or not we are capable of doing anything about it.
This is the whole philosophical problem that gets "conservatives" in trouble. They never question the left's predicates. Is any sort of income redistribution acceptable or even moral? Is health care even a proper function of government? For that matter, are any of the majority of things the federal government does a proper function of government? Conservatives fall to popular opinion just as easily as do liberals. Once they allow the camel's nose of a false predicate under the tent, they have already lost the battle. All that remains is partisan wrangling.
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