“When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.”
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“The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.”
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“Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.”
Nature“Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.”
Politics“The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.”
Society“A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.”
Family“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
Family“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
Age“The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.”
Wisdom“Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.”
Business“The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.”
Hope“The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.”
Family“The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.”
Family“Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.”
Family“Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.”
Family“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.”
Politics“It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.”
Family“In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.”
Society“Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.”
Success“The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.”
Family“A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.”
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