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What Do SoCons Want?
There’s all this conflict between SoCons and libertarians on Ricochet, but, as far as I can tell, the arguments are usually around SSM and drug legalization. Ok, but traditional marriage and keeping drugs illegal are known quantities and not terribly controversial positions. So what else do SoCons want? I assume more restrictions on abortion, which the way things are going, would also not be very controversial.
Anything else? What do you want the government to do to protect the culture, and especially children? What is the government’s role? There must be concrete issues besides those that I mentioned. I think it’s the unarticulated “other” that libertarians are most concerned about.
Published in General
There have been several comments with specific policy proposals or endorsements. See #47 and #61 for example. Neither one received any response; or does it have to come from Merina or JoE to count?
-E
You’re right that you provided substantive policy answers and I apologize for overlooking them.
bringing the Constitution back to its libertarian roots.
Fixed that for you. Unless you’re suggesting conservatives are in favor of monarchy and the Divine Right of Kings; although the Constitution doesn’t promote those goals.
That’s funny, because as someone who lived through the Giuliani administration in NYC, I always thought that he proved that NYC needed a fascist in charge.
No, I’m suggesting that they were bringing the Constitution back to its conservative, Burkean, roots. The word conservative arises to describe Burke’s followers, and neither they, nor their successors in the movement, were particularly big on the divine right of kings. Indeed, Burke’s reverence for the Glorious Revolution, which put the final nail in the coffin of that concept, can hardly be overstated.
The Constitution in the 18th century outlawed the establishment of an official federal denomination. Conservatives would like to return the establishment clause to that meaning. Perhaps you feel that the state level official churches were libertarian, in which case I’d be delighted to have you on board. It allowed for the death penalty, and had dramatically weaker procedural protections for criminals (the incorporation doctrine invented most of those, as a practical matter).
It gave Washington and his successors a pretty free hand in foreign policy, that being its purpose.