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Rebelling against our liberal roots
It’s funny how many right-wingers and traditionalists I’ve known who have very liberal parents, siblings and other relatives, and thus find themselves political pariahs, or at least misfits, in their own families. It’s not just Jews who come from extremely liberal backgrounds! The same is true, for example, of quite of few Southerners. Thus the father of a leading Southern racialist writer is a Presbyterian clergyman who used to walk in gay-pride parades.
A book ought be written about this phenomenon. It could be called, paraphrasing the title of a 1975 book by Midge Decter, “Liberal Parents, Reactionary Children.” Comments
I am curious as to who the writer and his father are. Posted by: Gracián on August 14, 2003 12:05 AMMany of the early conservative writers went to Ivy League and other liberal schools. They (including me) formed their dislike of liberalism from exposure to it’s ideas. The crew of younger writers like those at today’s National Review accept the liberal world-view. They call themselves “conservatives,” while accepting most of the liberal premises. Posted by: David on August 14, 2003 10:34 AMI’ll have to get the book, as I am such a person. Posted by: Tim G on August 18, 2003 9:28 PMIf Tim means that he is a “reactionary child of liberal parents,” that book doesn’t exist yet. I was taking off on the title of Midge Decter’s book, “Liberal Parents, Radical Children.” |