Reason number two has to deal
with modern conservatism's longstanding problem in dealing with the racialism that is America's Original Sin, which still perpetuates itself in American public education through policies and practices such as zoned schooling and overuse of suspensions and expulsions.
Not exact matches
While many conservatives still embrace faith, and defend the Judeo - Christian heritage, the idea that
modern conservatism is synonymous
with faith and tradition has lost traction.
Conservatism has succeeded politically in
modern America only when it has been infused
with populism.
To them, both theological liberalism (in all its varieties) and theological
conservatism (
with as many varieties) were and still are obsessed
with «the
modern mind.»
To the post-conservative evangelicals, liberalism and
conservatism are both unfruitfully obsessed
with «the
modern mind.»
Though long «since canonized as one of the fathers of
modern conservatism, in large part because of his influential 1953 book The Conservative Mind, Kirk (who died in 1994) fits awkwardly
with the other men identified as the founders of that movement.
Though
modern conservatism sprung up in response to FDR's government interventionism,
with plenty of Republicans in the 1930s labeling the New Deal socialist, it really got rolling in the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1940s and»50s,
with Joe McCarthy and his ilk doing the dirty work and intellectuals like Bill Buckley and Irving Kristol providing the ideas.
It is in this sense that
Modern American
Conservatism is conservative to Americans: The tenants of the nation was that governments exist by consent of the govern, individualism, and that local governments should have more power to interfere
with individuals than state governments, which should have more power than the national government (Jeffersonian Democracy).
The elimination of discrimination in marriage and partnership law is consistent
with modern, liberal
Conservatism, and
with the Prime Minister's personal pledge to eradicate homophobia and secure gay equality.
A secondary meaning for the term liberal
conservatism that has developed in Europe is a combination of more
modern conservative (less traditionalist) views
with those of social liberalism.
Will Team Cameron succeed in persuading the local party to choose a candidate who is in tune
with the party leader's «
modern compassionate
conservatism»?