http://www.leslierohde.com:80/categories/interests/politics-and-law/ One Geek's Public Personal Musings en Leslie Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:49:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.leslierohde.com:80/2004/11/04/brave_new_world.html Quoting MSNBC's Countdown, the 1936 Socialist Party platform is now, 60 years later, the law of the land. Hmmm, progress?<br /> Not hardly. &lt;!--break--&gt;Take a look at the 2000 and (brand new) 2004 red/blue presidential election map and notice:<br /> &lt;ol&gt;<br /> &lt;li&gt;the country is predominately &quot;conservative&quot; -- whatever the hell that has &lt;i&gt;come&lt;/i&gt; to mean; and&lt;/li&gt;<br /> &lt;li&gt;the conservative/liberal split is uniformally a division of urban and non-urban populations.&lt;/li&gt;<br /> &lt;/ol&gt;<br /> What we are witnessing is the crest in a multi-generational wave of social &quot;reform&quot; that dates to a time prior to the so-called new deal. The near future will be characterized by later historians as a time of slowing down and rolling back programs that embody the socialist doctrines and returning instead to the classical solutions that created these States united in America.<p><a href="http://www.leslierohde.com:80/2004/11/04/brave_new_world.html">Read more...</a></p> Politics and Law Interests http://www.leslierohde.com:80/2004/11/04/brave_new_world.html#comments http://www.leslierohde.com:80/2004/11/04/brave_new_world.html Thu, 04 Nov 2004 20:56:00 GMT