The modern conservative movement has 3 important blind spots,
Achilles heels if you will
1.
The idea that America is in some sort of post
racial environment. Racism is alive and
well in America, it can clearly be seen in some of the attitudes towards and
treatment of President Obama and in many other areas on American life. Conservatives seem to not want to acknowledge
this, which is why commentators such as Juan Williams (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWaOcJlaQvU ) becomes
such an important voice, moderating intelligently between conservatism and a
pragmatism acknowledging what life in American is actually like for African Americans.
2.
While conservatives glorify and love the idea of
the free markets they need to see that free markets simply do not exist in the
realm of multinational corporations. The
collusion between the financial services industry, large corporations and our government
has completely corrupted any functionality of the free markets. Until crony capitalism is ended, or at least
abated in some way, you cannot keep assuming that the mechanism of the free
market is going to solve anything.
3.
The environment – Ronald Regan said government
should only do what it has to do; protecting the environment is one of these
jobs. Due to the deadly complicity of
big business and big government the “free market” cannot address the protection
of the environment, therefore government (sadly) is the only player left
standing.
Well the list can still go on..But i agree with you on this 3..This maybe be the top of all the list that one can make.Most would agree with your number one..There is still some racism..Good thing my comrades in managed hosting atlanta are not..
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