“but the examples he points out are a little out of date since Reagan and the Gingrich congress took care a many of them.”
But the out of date stuff is what is being taught/told etc to the youngers.
If the conservatives want to live, they have to reach out and adapt.
Right now we are portrayed as white christian homo haters who’d rather molest kids at church or attack some minority than eat our red meat dinners.
What does reach out and adapt mean, exactly? Look more like democrats and basically toss conservatism under the bus?
Maybe I don’t understand this because I’m more of a Reagan conservative with a libertarian stripe, not necessarily a social conservative. In that light, Friedman is still quite relevent to today’s world.
I’ll probably be flamed for this one, but I think that in some respects we took social conservatisim too far, and perhaps that’s why people look at ‘conservatives’ as... what you said:
“Right now we are portrayed as white christian homo haters who’d rather molest kids at church or attack some minority than eat our red meat dinners.”