Conservative Critique Quotes
This was an all too typical hyper-polarized statement that graced political discourse at the beginning of the millennium. While the ultra conservatives were by far the most frequent slanderers, there were some left wingers who would also slander all conservatives with absurd rhetoric and overgeneralizations.
Olasky and many religiously oriented analysts, believe that public shame shapes and controls behavior and if a society does not have a set of recognized norms, and every person is free to determine his own propriety, there will be moral degeneration and there is no way to produce desirable social and political outcomes. This is perhaps the longest political and philosophical ongoing debate. In a society people cannot be free if there is fear, coercion and chaos with public safety primary. But how can this be produced unless there are generally accepted moral and behavioral codes like that of a religion. And then if one has that, and it is dominant, how can someone be free from the coercion of that morality or religious code? There must be freedom not to believe. Or must there be? Many say yes. Many others, especially orthodox leaders of most religions believe, No. Christian, Jewish and Muslim fundamentalists all say No, but then they insist that the norm be theirs.
After JFK’s assassination, many of his appointees who were liberal Democrats, were concerned that LBJ was a Southern conservative and might not want to serve in a conservative administration. Johnson satisfied Heller and all of the other Kennedy appointees who he asked to stay on. Actually, Johnson was more liberal than JFK, and proved it during his Presidency.
