Conservatives are No Longer Conservative

[Toro]

This should be obvious to anyone paying attention. But too many on the so-called "right" are wrapped up in the 24/7 Forever Culture War of pwng the libs.

This is EXACTLY what many on the left have been thinking for decades.

Conservative intellectuals, commentators, and politicians are rethinking the relationship between free enterprise and the common good. While critiques of the market have a long history in traditionalist circles, most American conservatives have held for several decades that protecting markets from government was essential for human flourishing. But that consensus is quickly changing as many elements of classical liberalism are now being challenged. The question is not whether to jettison free enterprise in favor of the common good, but rather how to orient free enterprise in support of the common good. This requires properly understanding the common good and how free enterprise affects it. Conservatives must learn to treat hard-nosed economics and humane political economy as complements, not substitutes.​

Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political–Economic Art as Complements

Conservative Perspectives by The Heritage Foundation is a series reflecting thought leadership from across the conservative movement on emerging policy topics and debates. This series provides a forum for diverse perspectives to be articulated and discussed. Nothing written here is to be...

www.heritage.org

Cue the unthinking knee-jerk alt-right tribalism.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

The left has been thinking for decades?

You’re funny!

 

[EMH]

This should be obvious to anyone paying attention. But too many on the so-called "right" are wrapped up in the 24/7 Forever Culture War of pwng the libs.

This is EXACTLY what many on the left have been thinking for decades.

Conservative intellectuals, commentators, and politicians are rethinking the relationship between free enterprise and the common good. While critiques of the market have a long history in traditionalist circles, most American conservatives have held for several decades that protecting markets from government was essential for human flourishing. But that consensus is quickly changing as many elements of classical liberalism are now being challenged. The question is not whether to jettison free enterprise in favor of the common good, but rather how to orient free enterprise in support of the common good. This requires properly understanding the common good and how free enterprise affects it. Conservatives must learn to treat hard-nosed economics and humane political economy as complements, not substitutes.​

Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political–Economic Art as Complements

Conservative Perspectives by The Heritage Foundation is a series reflecting thought leadership from across the conservative movement on emerging policy topics and debates. This series provides a forum for diverse perspectives to be articulated and discussed. Nothing written here is to be...

www.heritage.org

Cue the unthinking knee-jerk alt-right tribalism.

"Conservatives" were mostly conservative before W.

NeoCons are not conservative at all, they are carbon copies of Schumer and Feinstein.

 

[MarathonMike]

Liberals are the ones who turn every discussion into a personal attack. There is nothing "Liberal" about the modern day Liberal. Y'all the most venomous, hateful people in America. Just watch "The View" or Joy Reid or Morning Joe if you need proof.

 

[theHawk]

This should be obvious to anyone paying attention. But too many on the so-called "right" are wrapped up in the 24/7 Forever Culture War of pwng the libs.

This is EXACTLY what many on the left have been thinking for decades.

Conservative intellectuals, commentators, and politicians are rethinking the relationship between free enterprise and the common good. While critiques of the market have a long history in traditionalist circles, most American conservatives have held for several decades that protecting markets from government was essential for human flourishing. But that consensus is quickly changing as many elements of classical liberalism are now being challenged. The question is not whether to jettison free enterprise in favor of the common good, but rather how to orient free enterprise in support of the common good. This requires properly understanding the common good and how free enterprise affects it. Conservatives must learn to treat hard-nosed economics and humane political economy as complements, not substitutes.​

Free Enterprise and the Common Good: Economic Science and Political–Economic Art as Complements

Conservative Perspectives by The Heritage Foundation is a series reflecting thought leadership from across the conservative movement on emerging policy topics and debates. This series provides a forum for diverse perspectives to be articulated and discussed. Nothing written here is to be...

www.heritage.org

Cue the unthinking knee-jerk alt-right tribalism.

So we are what then?

Liberal?

 

[Anathema]

The “Common Good” does not exist if it has to be enforced by the Government.