Right-wing conservative environmentalists
Back in the early 1980s I used to call myself a right-wing, conservative environmentalist. Which led to a scene down at the Bedford Township fire hall one election day, but I'll save that for another day.
But I remember when the environmentalist fruitcakes got their support from the anti-establishment right, not the left. I even have evidence from the 1950s, if mice haven't chewed up those old magazines by now. It was people on the right who were cheering Rachel Carson.
Anyhow, Suzanne Fields' latest column reminds me of some of those things.
But there's more to it than environmentalism. I have no idea who some of those names are from the 1920s and 1930s. But I too, am one who "rails at ... 'the erosion of community and personal autonomy in the face of an increasingly nationalized and organized society.'" And it's frustrating that a lot of conservatives who ought to understand this better than anyone just don't. (Someone who understands what that phrase means can also understand what really happened when Europeans conquered Native Americans and replaced their cultures with a society that was "increasingly nationalized and organized.")
And, though I fear and detest the possible rise to power of Hillary Clinton more than anyone else I know of, I have to agree with the guy who says:
"If by saying 'it takes a village to raise a child' Mrs. Clinton meant 'it takes more government programs,' well, count me out. But if by that she meant that parents can't raise good children alone, that they need the support of a strong, healthy society, she's right."
But I remember when the environmentalist fruitcakes got their support from the anti-establishment right, not the left. I even have evidence from the 1950s, if mice haven't chewed up those old magazines by now. It was people on the right who were cheering Rachel Carson.
Anyhow, Suzanne Fields' latest column reminds me of some of those things.
But there's more to it than environmentalism. I have no idea who some of those names are from the 1920s and 1930s. But I too, am one who "rails at ... 'the erosion of community and personal autonomy in the face of an increasingly nationalized and organized society.'" And it's frustrating that a lot of conservatives who ought to understand this better than anyone just don't. (Someone who understands what that phrase means can also understand what really happened when Europeans conquered Native Americans and replaced their cultures with a society that was "increasingly nationalized and organized.")
And, though I fear and detest the possible rise to power of Hillary Clinton more than anyone else I know of, I have to agree with the guy who says:
"If by saying 'it takes a village to raise a child' Mrs. Clinton meant 'it takes more government programs,' well, count me out. But if by that she meant that parents can't raise good children alone, that they need the support of a strong, healthy society, she's right."