It seemed pretty wordy for two sentence summation in the last paragraph, that wasn't new information rather than just re-STATING the STATE of GOP ideals.
Was this particularly insightful for you?
"Was this particularly insightful for you?"Extremely so. The only thing that was news to me was that Krauthammer had appeared on Stewart.
"It seemed pretty wordy for two sentence summation in the last paragraph"I don't know how his argument could be made nearly as clearly and concisely as he did without the use of many words, and I did not see any unneeded repetition, or use of flourish.
As far as the summation goes, I would say that the essay eases into the the summation and that the last two sentences that you refer to are simply the very end of the summation.
"just re-STATING the STATE of GOP ideals."
If their was any singular point to be taken from the essay it would be the title, "The Republican Embrace of the Welfare State" but the essay was multifaceted, as it also explained how the Welfare State is failing, and how our social obligations could be better handled.
Here is the truth that the Republican Party is faced with. The baby boomers failed to save enough money to fund their lifestyle into their later years. They are afraid they will lose their jobs in their 50's and 60's and do not have a personal safety net. Their homes are not worth what they thought they would be worth and the stock market is like rolling the dice in Vegas. No real investment options that are safe for the avg Joe right now with any real returns above inflation. The $80k avg they have saved buys less and less each year. Real Inflation ,not the govt index, made it impossible to maintain their standard of living. You saw this demonstrated in fla in the last election. Once staunch Reaganites were now afraid they would be at risk without govt safety nets voted out of fear . It seems that conservatives for the most part are only conservative when they are looking down their noses at someone below them. They know we are stuck in an economic cycle that does not favor them for at least the foreseeable future. It turns out the fiscal conservatives were not so conservative after all and they thought the gravy train would keep rolling forever. It is nothing that the libs are doing right but more what the pseudo conservatives did wrong.
You make some valid points, however I think as far as the "truth" go's you miss the mark. While it is true that many BBers failed to save enough money to retire comfortably, and that investment returns vary according to risk, and that real inflation is higher than the gov. index, I absolutely don't believe that,
"conservatives for the most part are only conservative when they are looking down their noses at someone below them." A "true" fiscal conservative is, well, fiscally conservative. And no doubt some people will claim to be, whatever they have to claim to be to get the goodies. All should realize that the economic cycle that we are mired in favors none but government, and to escape the quagmire government must be restrained.
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