Amazing Grace: Libertarians in bed with Gary L. Bauer?
"Kindness effects more than severity" is the moral of the story of Aesop's Fable "The Wind and the Sun, exemplified in our own day in the coming together without compromise of social and fiscal conservatives (see below for more) in the fight to reignite the lights of the Shining City. Above, a retelling of the ancient tale in The Baby's Own Aesop (verse fables by W.J. Linton) 1887. Illustrations by Walter Crane.
By Sissy Willis of sisu
Gary L. Bauer, President of American Values — "Your Voice to Help Protect Life, Marriage, Famly, Faith and Freedom" — is following us on Twitter, an unlikely bedfellow for this Darwinian Libertarian. [See our post of last summer, "The opiate of the dopamine-dependent blogger," for what we mean by that.] We've always shied away from what we took to be social conservatives' impulse to impose upon the rest of us their family values — whether or not we agreed with them, it wasn't government's job to force entry into our private moral universe — a kind of obverse of the left's impulse to impose their politically correct moral-equivalence "values" upon the rest of us. But we're seeing Mr. Bauer & Company with new eyes in the morning light of the Third Great Awakening that is the Tea Party movement, as Glenn Harlan Reynolds wrote last February in what we called "one of Instapundit's great distillations of what's 'happening here'" …
Not that social and fiscal cons will ever be soul mates. It's a matter of emphasis. O'Donnell herself captured the momentary Zeitgeist — to a standing ovation! — at the Value Voters Summit in Washington Saturday, where Gary L. Bauer was a featured speaker …
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i’am not a darwinist i mean how do humans evolve from monkeys?
i’am not a creationist either but i can tolerate them
Moobs: I hope ignorance is bliss for you.
“Not that social and fiscal cons will ever be soul mates.”
It’s been my experience that social cons are a lot more fiscally conservative than are the so-called “fiscal cons”.
People don’t call themselves fiscal cons because they are all fired up about fiscal conservatism, but as an indirect way of say “I’m no social con”.
Not in my case, SM. I call myself a fiscal con because that is what I am.
“We’ve always shied away from what we took to be social conservatives’ impulse to impose upon the rest of us their family values — whether or not we agreed with them, it wasn’t government’s job to force entry into our private moral universe”
Politics is all about imposing your values on somebody else. For instance, the fiscal cons impulse to impose their moral values on everybody elses private moral universe. In spite of what libertarians like to tell themselves, their outlook on life is intensely moralistic.
Once you are involved in politics, you’ve left the realm of the private behind.
SM: Fiscal cons seek to restore the Founding Fathers’ vision of limited government. If that’s an imposition, so be it.
“Fiscal cons seek to restore the Founding Fathers’ vision of limited government.”
No, they do not. They seek to implement their own vision of limited government, one that differs greatly from that of the Founders. And one that is not, at the end of the day, very limited at all.