From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Apr 29 2005 - 13:19:10 BST
Hi All:
If the Victorian era was marked by rigid adherence to the social status
quo, then the current Democrat Party in the U.S., who like to wrap
themselves in the mantle of FDR as intellectual progressives, are the new
Victorians while the Republicans have become the true progressives. The
traditional roles have been reversed.
Consider that Republicans want to move forward and confirm judges by an up
or down majority vote in the Senate as had been the practice over 200
years. The Democrat's response was "Stop. Hold to the judicial status
quo." When Republicans want to try vouchers to improve a failing public
school system, the Democrat response is "No way."
Other progressive moves the New Victorians block are: a reform Social
Security so the poor can leave assets to their children; an effort shake
up the UN to increase its effectiveness and avoid future scandals; a call
to permit democracy to work at the state level to determine abortion
rights and same-sex unions, an initiative to remove discriminatory
affirmative action policies after 30 years to dissolve questions about
black achievements.
A perfect example of the New Victorian mindset can be found among Democrat
Party environmentalists who would like to put social and economic progress
into reverse gear and return the world to some idealized simple past.
Anyone looking with unbiased eyes at Democrats today will see a stolid,
unyielding, unimaginative, obstructionist group of relativists, nihilists,
and hedonists. They are today's hidebound social level thinkers. The new,
intellectually-driven progressives are conservatives who are offering new
ways to attack society's ills along the Dynamic lines of freedom from
central planning and a national regulatory bureaucracy that Pirsig
suggests.
Best,
Platt
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