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I enjoyed your piece on symbolic victories, and for the most part I agree with you. But there are fights still raging that will affect the way people actually have to live their lives: excluding non-English languages from public discourse, dismantling public education and eliminating racial preferences, to name a few. Of course, they're all reactions to comparatively recent developments, and the left has inertia on its side (I'm gritting my teeth as I write this). Also: Dan's assertion that "Conservatives think we have enough laws already" seems eccentric to me. There's certainly light-years of space between the Republicans and movement conservatives, much like the gap separating the radical left from the Democrats. That said, my understanding of the movement conservatives isn't that they have a problem with the size of the legal code so much as with the size of the government - or, strictly speaking, public services like education and welfare. The calls for flag-burning and straight-marriage amendments are coming from the right wing, and the moderate Republican leadership sees them as the albatrosses they are. But the Repubs can't win elections w/o the right, whereas the Demos seem to do OK w/o the left. Good old Warren Ellis said it: "America doesn't have a left wing." —Rob Lightner Other responses to "Conservative Symbols" top |
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