re: #274 palomino

According to the “intellectual right”, everyone from Glenn Beck to Rick Perry to Jim Demint to Mark Levin, it was at that time that America started losing its way. The Progressive movement of the early 20th century, with its strikes for decent working conditions, its child labor laws, direct election of senators and granting women the right to vote, is the period that began the decline of America.

What else can you say except that these “modern thinkers” are literally a century behind the times, which of course calls their modernity into question.

Perry and DeMint are not members of the “intellectual right”. They are conservatice office holders, but they don’t publish books or write the articles that form the philosophical underpinnings of conservatism.