 The left has lost the common touch. |
| Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. |
| The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place. |
| Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion. |
| The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. Topics: Family |
| The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. |
| The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. |
| Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. |
| Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. |
| The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. |
| We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change. |
| The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine. |
| When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. |
| The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters. |
| News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda. |
| Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure. |
| In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. |
| Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection. |
| Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values. |
| Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. |
