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I find these two terms at odds with one another
By cement mixer | August 2, 2007
From an article titled GOP Faces Looming Disaster Among Young Voters, the same Brian Anderson quoted below by Sage had this to say:
The Bush administration’s and the current Republican Party’s big government conservatism runs against the instincts of many young people, who tend to be more libertarian in their views.
My question is how can there be such a thing as big government conservativism? Can there be?
Aren’t the terms big government and conservativism antagonistic concepts that contradict each other?
If there can be big government conservativism, that presumbably liberals could support in theory, can there be small government socialism that conservatives could support in theory?
Any finally, what implications await us if we accept that the concept of big government conservativism can exist? Will social conservatives and fiscal conservatives eventually part ways?…
Topics: conservativism, Republicans, political philosophy |
