Comments on: Increased Wealth, Increased Liberalism and the Slow, Painful Death of Conservatism http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/increased-wealth-increased-liberalism-and-the-slow-painful-death-of-conservatism/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:11:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Trevor http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/increased-wealth-increased-liberalism-and-the-slow-painful-death-of-conservatism/#comment-77 Trevor Thu, 31 May 2007 05:28:11 +0000 http://whippersnapper.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/increased-wealth-increased-liberalism-and-the-slow-painful-death-of-conservatism/#comment-77 That trend holds up for now, and I'd certainly like it to continue to, but I wonder if there aren't out there already the seeds of a realignment. Your modern CEO isn't a terribly reactionary figure - Fortune 500 companies have robust diversity programs, write amici curae on affirmative action cases, and increasingly push for universal healthcare. Blue-collar workers have red-state values, and buck the elite consensus on immigration and trade. What's to stop one party from becoming the sole province of rich polyglot urban elitists and the other of nativist pro-labor conservative christians? Say, twenty years down the line? That seems like a much more natural political equilibrium than the one we have now, and one that would probably be ruinously bad for the values we'd choose. That or another depression, which took the wind out of roaring '20s liberalism for a good long time. That trend holds up for now, and I’d certainly like it to continue to, but I wonder if there aren’t out there already the seeds of a realignment. Your modern CEO isn’t a terribly reactionary figure – Fortune 500 companies have robust diversity programs, write amici curae on affirmative action cases, and increasingly push for universal healthcare. Blue-collar workers have red-state values, and buck the elite consensus on immigration and trade. What’s to stop one party from becoming the sole province of rich polyglot urban elitists and the other of nativist pro-labor conservative christians? Say, twenty years down the line?

That seems like a much more natural political equilibrium than the one we have now, and one that would probably be ruinously bad for the values we’d choose.

That or another depression, which took the wind out of roaring ’20s liberalism for a good long time.

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