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Rob- You're right that there's still a lot going on in the struggle between liberals and conservatives. My rants on liberals and conservatives in the 20th century are something of a retrospective. They don't necessarily apply to the beginning of the 21st century, and maybe not to the tail end of the 20th. That said, it's probably not a coincidence that the three liberal struggles you name are issues that I find it hard to take a side on. excluding non-English languages from public discourse, dismantling public education and eliminating racial preferences I want English to have a special place in US practice and law, and I want to head off the country becoming bilingual. I could see the current system of public education dismantled if it were replaced by some other free education system. I don't like racial preferences, though I can live with them. Perhaps liberal victories have advanced so far that dividing line has moved and now I'm somewhere in the middle between liberal and conservative. Also: Dan's assertion that "Conservatives think we have enough laws already" seems eccentric to me. I think Dan's talking about a view of the traditional conservative: a practical, matter-of-fact fellow who supports the principles of our republic and doesn't want to put the government to use to advance high-minded or moralistic social agendas. While the progressives wanted to prohibit alcohol in order to improve society and the religious conservatives wanted to prohibit it because drunkenness is sinful, the traditional conservatives would have preferred to let people be. Anyway, I've heard people talk about traditional conservatives in that way, and Dan's assessment sounds something like that. Are these traditional conservatives apocryphal? I haven't looked into it. -JoT Other responses to "Conservative Symbols"
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