The top echelons of the Lib Dems have spectacularly failed to grasp party mood on a core
liberal values issue.
Not exact matches
Rush Limbach's comments will be taken as gospel for the Right, but they truely illustrate the reason the GOP is in turmoil... the leaders need the Religious Right to win, but know they are being intellectually dishonest because their
values do not match the Religious Right, except on the abortion
issue, whhich will never go away because the GOP needs that 20 % of voters who would otherwise vote Democrat becasue the
Liberal values match Christian
values more closely.
The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about
values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on
values in
liberal arts education, and the whole
issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in
value analysis at several universities.
Ahead by single digits in Iowa a day before voters head to the caucuses, Trump continued his attacks on main rival Ted Cruz who has accused Trump of being too
liberal on social
issues and too cozy with Hillary Clinton because of his «New York
values.»
Here the race
issue is brought to the forefront: two upper - class white
liberals find their own progressive
values challenged when their daughter returns home from a ten - day Hawaiian vacation with a black fiancé in tow.
Even workers» rights divided
liberals: with the rise of identity politics, and the shift of blue - collar voters to Nixon in protest of
liberals» anti-Vietnam war and pro — affirmative action stance, trade union
issues lost their pristine
value to many
liberals.
The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which
liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such
issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the
value of standardized test scores.»
As Melanie Phillips points out in her book «The World Turned Upside Down», the
liberal left mindset predisposes to a set of
values that is in favour of AGW, «green»
issues and big government....
Marxism is regarded by «Americans» as a lunatic fringe, not as synonymous with «the
liberal left mindset [that] predisposes to a set of
values that is in favour of AGW, «green»
issues and big government.»