Reality-based conservatism

[nancylebov]

David Frum concludes that same sex marriage doesn't damage heterosexual marriage.

Is there anything else in American politics which is dependent on as weak an argument as opposition to same sex marriage? The war on drugs is based on a wild over-estimation of government power, but it doesn't quite have that weird "I'll make up a definition and insist that it's realer than what can be observed" quality.

Link thanks to nwhyte.

Comments

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Conservatism isn't so much an argument as an attitude. Arguing is much more the style of liberals and of libertarians . . . and, I suppose, of Marxists, but there's not really a live Marxist tradition in the United States.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

I was at a conference with them last month!

Oh, you don't mean academic Marxists? Yeah, the 80s pretty much did for the rest of them.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, academic Marxists in the United States vote either Democratic or Green. Functionally they're mostly a splinter group of liberals.