#left

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The left has lost the common touch. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#left #lost #touch

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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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. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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