I've thought this often as one after another of its policies and its actions fail. But the power of its echo chamber of institutions and media outlets hangs on, spinning any news into myth. Some time ago I wrote that when media gets lost in an attempt at fairness rather than a truthful telling of the situation, it dilutes reality so that alternative views gain credence, not because they are right, but just because they are repeated. Is cold hearted social Darwinist conservatism finally dead? I mean no insult to Charles on his birthday. We can only hope.
'An intellectual autopsy of the movement' by Sam Tanenhaus
"...After George W. Bush's two terms, conservatives must reckon with the consequences of a presidency that failed, in large part, because of its fervent commitment to movement ideology: the aggressively unilateralist foreign policy; the blind faith in a deregulated, Wall Street-centric market; the harshly punitive "culture war" waged against liberal "elites." That these precepts should have found their final, hapless defender in John McCain, who had resisted them for most of his long career, only confirms that movement doctrine retains an inflexible and suffocating grip on the GOP."
Conservatism Is Dead
http://www.usmessageboard.com/writing/50779-end-of-democracy.html
'An intellectual autopsy of the movement' by Sam Tanenhaus
"...After George W. Bush's two terms, conservatives must reckon with the consequences of a presidency that failed, in large part, because of its fervent commitment to movement ideology: the aggressively unilateralist foreign policy; the blind faith in a deregulated, Wall Street-centric market; the harshly punitive "culture war" waged against liberal "elites." That these precepts should have found their final, hapless defender in John McCain, who had resisted them for most of his long career, only confirms that movement doctrine retains an inflexible and suffocating grip on the GOP."
Conservatism Is Dead
http://www.usmessageboard.com/writing/50779-end-of-democracy.html
