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Entry: Ross Douthat's Chutes and Ladders Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/ross_douthats_chutes_and_ladders#32619 Post contents: "The grim and self-defeating selfishness that makes modern family life seem so pointless to so many is less the fruit of policy than the fact that so many of us read Betty Friedan and Hugh Hefner back in college." If you are like most people, you probably went to college due, in part, to government policy. And you certainly were able to "read" Hugh Hefner due to changes in government policy. "In a West that is doggedly secular, the public sector will infallibly stumble toward value-neutral policies based either on individual rights or tribal groupthink (depending on which party and which race holds the whip)." But in fact they aren't value-neutral, and are remarkably uniform throughout the West. Policies that are best for the dominant race are not in effect in any Western motion, nor do "conservative" parties in the West make the interests of the majority of their constituents into policy, even at the smallest level, when they win elections. The question is not why do things fall, but why do they fall the way they do? Certainly twiddling the tax code won't put Humpty back together Repubs scream "tax cut! tax cut! tax cut!" to avoid confronting the dominant left on cultural (read racial) issues, the same reason they look for adventures overseas. The white working class is the Republican party's most loyal constituent group, though they get virtually nothing from the Repubs, and talk about winning back the working class only makes sense if you dishonestly leave the "white" out of it, thus inaccurately making it a class problem instead of a race problem - the fraudulence of organized conservatism in a nut-shell. The Republicans apparently have some real <a href="http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/q=ODVlMGQ3NWNlNWYzOGVkYzUxODMzNGM4MDVhNjM5Mzk=">class issues</a> to deal with, though. Sent at: 2008 12 01