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To: Tax-chick
I think you're confusing what is indeed factual, such as the benefit of certain nutritional supplements, with the ideology that claims certain foods, shoes, or other consumer products are "conservative" in a special way.

Not exactly; it is just that, "stereotypically", conservatives are against 'dainty' things like organic food, or non-traditionally-Western approaches (chiropractic, acupuncture, yoga, etc.); such historically being the province of hippies.

(See this Victor Davis Hanson thread on Europe for a loose example of the stereotype.) Cheers!

38 posted on 10/03/2006 6:23:38 AM PDT by grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers; NCSteve

I'm still thinking on this. I think what gets me about Mr. Dreher's writing on the subject is that he seems to think his particular decisions on diet, exercise, clothing, housing, etc., are Anointed, while the rest of the world - shopping at Wal-mart, living in tract subdivisions, drinking beer in lawn chairs in their driveways - are the Unenlightened.

(Anoreth says we really want to drink cheap wine in the driveway.)

Although he's only hinted at the idea that the redneck trash should be required by the government to subsidize his Chosen ways, I think the urge to coerce is there, and I'm not comfortable with calling it "conservative."

(Ping, Steve, related to our exchange on the Sowell thread.)


40 posted on 10/03/2006 1:53:31 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There's nowhere to go and you've got all day to get there ... on some beach, somewhere.")
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