For those who are conservative by political intuition or considered opinion, you really should pay attention to the brewing cauldron of debate going on at Nation Review online The CRUNCHY CON BLOG.
Rod Dreher and his compadres are suggesting that political and economic conservativism, in and of themselves, are inadequate for the life of a people and a nation. Jonah Goldberg does not like it.
My take on this is that Dreher and others are contending for a Christian view of the world that is more in keeping with the New Testament scriptures. They see need for God in all of life, for community as a value in itself, and simplicity rather than consumption as the style of life.
Political and economic conservatives don't share that view as a matter of principle. Of course, some political and economic conservatives might embrace something like those principles. But those principles are no more a part of P & E conservatism per se than the Apostle's Creed is its ethos.
So, the so-called "Crunchy Con" phenomenon is, I think, uncovering the reality that evangelical and traditionalist Christians cannot make unqualified cause with political and economic conservativism.
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