[Mitch Muncy 02/24 11:42 AM]All together now: Crunchy Conservatism is a sensibility, perhaps even a critique, not a philosophy or a political or religious program. I wonder how many times over the next year Rod is going to have to say this.
Perhaps a topic worthy of discussion is why the distinction between a proposal that we cultivate certain dispositions and a desire to impose an ideology on the unwilling seems difficult to establish. Perhaps it has something to do with the distaste for “social pressure” (or, to borrow a phrase, the “appearance of social pressure”) that Jeremy’s correspondent mentioned earlier.
Be that as it may, I agree with Rod’s second point, but not so much with his first. What some Crunchy Cons identify as the free market run amok looks to me more like factions using the government to pervert the free market. I wonder if Crunchy Conservatism wouldn’t flourish under a market even freer than the one we have. But perhaps we’ll get into that next week.
“See” everyone on Monday.
