The money lines:
The deepest source of our present discontents is the sexual revolution. Our abandonment of chastity as a norm has had dire political consequences.
Her right to be promiscuous trumps our right to the fruits of our own labor.
From commenter John Walker (a self described “flaming libertarian”): The libertarian society in which I wish to live (and in which, to large extent I lived prior to 1965), was made up of people who shared a common moral code. Today we may call it “social conservatism”, but then we just called it “proper behaviour”.
Proper behavior may now be long gone. Dr. Rahe is a professor at Hillsdale College and I would rank him with the likes of Mark Steyn, Victor Davis Hanson, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell – awe, heck -just go here for the list! He has penned one of his best (IMHO) called “The Deepest Source of Our Troubles” in which he describes one of the ugliest reasons (from a Conservative’s viewpoint) why our outlook that Obama would lose his re-election bid. He postulates, and I agree, that the reason we lost was the culture has been changed from underneath what traditional America is – or, perhaps, is. But he also posits, and I agree, that this change to the culture is not enhancing the sense of Liberty & Freedom which and here are a few snippets (emphasis mine):
One of the reasons that Romney was unable, despite my hopes, to do in 2012 what Reagan did in 1980 is that, in the intervening 32 years a great many of the American citizens who voted for Ronald Reagan had died and been replaced by Americans educated and morally formed in a very different fashion.
Indeed.