tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post7291331000392757049..comments2024-03-28T18:32:05.933-04:00Comments on bensozia: David Brooks Defines RepublicanismJohnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037215533094998996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8304928500646903522.post-21471138263527864232012-01-17T20:54:38.358-05:002012-01-17T20:54:38.358-05:00I think one should add a rock-bottom racial aspect...I think one should add a rock-bottom racial aspect to contemporary conservative disquiet. I suspect much of this is only semi-conscious. Very likely many of the oldsters who think our current president "just isn't the sort of person who should be president" also shook their heads deploringly at Bull Connor, or wept piously while watching "Mississippi Burning."<br /><br />As for Brooks, he's started harping in recent months on this theme of "welfare killed our culture of responsibility." To me the thesis itself is dubious. I don't think people have ever been that responsible; they just used to slink off and die quietly in a boarding house somewhere. (How many nineteenth-century anecdotes end that way? I think more than a few.) It also seems to me a reach that we should throw millions out onto the street because of a philosophical implication.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08993570411881726772noreply@blogger.com