Capitol Ideas/The Missing Generation
Bethell, Tom
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...Through provocative "thought experiments," fascinating case studies, and keen analyses of social and economic statistics, Murray shows us exactly how our dependence on government impedes our pursuit of wealth, safety, self-respect, and enjoyment...
...Such reformers view themselves as but the very latest edition in the great American tradition of reform, placing themselves grandly in line with the abolitionists and the suffragettes...
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...I would only add that America was a conservative country until the 1930s, its conservatism assured by a Constitution interpreted in such a way as to protect private property...
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...These bully-boy pietists manifested the animal rights activists' same disregard for the rights of others and a similar narrow-mindedness and fanaticism...
...Several readers lamented the lack of leadership displayed by this "missing" cohort...
...By lessening nationalistic and patriotic zeal and fostering the feeling of guilt among the 'old' Americans, the new minority elites could go about dismantling American traditions and establish their Utopia for themselves...
...And he is "wary of what's coming: the sons and daughters of the baby boomers...
...Liberalism at the time provided a big political puddle within which to swim," George Waldman concluded...
...People wanted only to get back to a normal life and to an enjoyment of the fruits of victory...
...Several people repeated these themes of Depression, war, and civil rights, although none as succinctly as Thornton...
...It is not the Depression...
...Instead his friends have PEACE license plates, toil in free medical clinics in Honduras, and think "shooting a grouse is more grave than adultery...
...A heart hardened, though not closed, to this country's virtues was inevitable...
...John Poulin of Manitoba thought Reagan "more nearly resembles a chaperone" than "knight with banner unfurled...
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...of Friedrich A. Hayek's books, for in it he lays the foundation of much that is found in his other works—his general theory of man and human interactions and of the intellectual perceptions and misperceptions of these interactions...
...and are now beginning to assert some semblance of conservatism...
...Since there were no contraceptives in the 1930s, Burlingame points out, the birth dearth was a matter of pure abstention...
...Where we were born into cynicism and have grown into conservatism (largely), the missing generation was born into ascendancy" and became cynical...
...At the time liberal intellectuals were seen as championing more enlightened views...
...Barry Goldwater is as inspiring as cleaning out a dog kennel...
...I witnessed the ripping of Goldwater because he dared to draw the line...
...He concluded: "Maybe the reason is that people have lost faith in their own ability to provide for themselves and to stand alone in the world...
...Exhausted and smug—that about sums it up...
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...My quibble is: How did these "aggressive minorities" so quickly turn into "elites...
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...Although these ethnics were essentially social conservatives, they could find a political home only among the Democrats...
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...They are the Americans too young to have been caught up in World War II (though some lost a father at a tender age), too young (or lucky) to have been directly involved with Korea, and of course too old to have been touched by Vietnam or swept into the antinomian idiocy of 'the sixties' (i.e., 1965-73...
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...In short, there was little energy left for—and little need felt for—a sustained exertion on behalf of what might be called conservative agendas...
...Ishould think that historian Adams would be more inclined to lump them with the bigots of colonial time who for the highest religious reasons persecuted Baptists and Quakers in Massachusetts, with the Pilgrims who banned play on Christmas and the Maypole on May Day, and with this century's Prohibitionists...
...His next point was interesting: "Another possibility might be the identification of conservatism not with principle but with protection of social status...
...Within a certain age group (perhaps 45 to 70), it has been suggested to me, there seem to be very few conservatives...
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...John R. Dunlap of Santa Clara, California (and a frequent contributor to TAS), wrote: "I seem to find the very lowest voltage (or at most the sense that politics is just a game, something of low stakes and minor importance) among people born roughly between 1933 and 1943—the last decade of this `generation' we're talking about...
...Additionally, they felt the good had won, so they were complacent...
...God help me if it is only the beginning of a trend, but the vital, valuable members of this society lost to retirement communities, motorhoming, and consumerism at its crassest are a great loss indeed...
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...My thanks to all correspondents, those quoted and those I don't have room for, including: George Steven Swan of South Bend, Indiana...
...j 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR FEBRUARY 1989 with them, social philosophies had to be subordinated to practical economic programs...
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...Things started to go sour in the 1960s...
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...As Mario Vargas Llosa says in his Introduction, "The informal market is actually the solution to the problem: the spontaneous and creative response of the impoverished masses to the state's inability of satisfying their basic needs...
...I remember growing up believing that there really was something sinister about conservatives—yet my family was not at all political...
...CAPITOL IDEAS THE MISSING GENERATION M any thanks for the enthusiastic response to my query last October about the "missing generation" of conservatives in America...
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...By and large they just weren't directly touched or troubled, personally, by any of the great sociopolitical calamities of this century...
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...They feel they need a government agency to protect them from evil in the world—corporations and the rich...
...We grew up during the Roosevelt years," wrote Gene Thornton of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, "which accustomed us to the idea that it was up to the government to provide the remedy if the wrong was obviously beyond the power of the individual to right...
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...Then came the war, and for twenty years after that there was widespread belief that state-controlled economies would surpass free ones...
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...both of whom grew up in the Depression...
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...But then, with the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century emigration from Central and Eastern Europe, and the immigration caused by the Russian Revolution, many "anti-nationalistic" people arrived whose goal "was to create in this country a climate suitable for the forming of an international and socialistic country, in which aggressive minorities could operate without the fear of being attacked by the then dominant ethnic and religious groups...
...They may very well be the most pampered, unruffled birth class in our history...
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...It is pure demographics...
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...Then "during the war against Hitler, we got used to the idea that any means were justified to right a wrong as great as racism...
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...In my experience," wrote Dan Hawkins of Helena, Montana, "they should be called the entitlement generation...
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...One came in fairly frequent contact with these conservatives: they could be identified by the reactionary views they casually expressed regarding race, class, and religious orientation...
...they don't mind paying a third of their earned income to the government so that government can protect, inspect, and supervise all aspects of their lives...
...Before 1915, he writes, "when conservativism was dominant," the U.S...
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...Americans do not need lectures on the humane treatment of animals nearly so much as they need continued experiments in pursuit of human health...
...Less debatable is the fact that experiments on animals have dramatically improved human health and happiness...
...Quite possibly there are activists opposed to all of the above and to God knows what else...
...It was not until my father started a small business fifteen years ago that their theretofore benign attitude toward government changed...
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...They will leave "the children of the revelers to pay the bill...
...Price continued: "But thirty years is only half a man'slife...
...There are fewer people my age than any other age...
...He notes that "something similar can be said about the students I've been getting in college [Santa Clara University] over the last several years—those born between about 1960 and 1970...
...Tom Holt of Arlington, Virginia, noted that many people had heard stories "about how government had stepped in to help with WPA and other make-work," as he indeed had heard from his "officially elderly parents, Tom Bethel...
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...I was born in 1932," wrote George Waldman of Reading, Massachusetts, "so I lie right in the middle of the generation in question...
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...And so, after the war, "when we saw judges in effect passing laws that legislatures refused to pass, the intent of which was to bring black Americans into the mainstream of American life, it seemed to us to be right, or at any rate, not positively wrong...
...A number of writers expressed a certain amount of irritation with the missing generation...
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...I think that is why there is a 'missing conservative generation' in American life, which may even have been a good thing in its time, considering the alternatives...
...Today they are a "fat and happy generation who have grown older, who still want more cake for their old age, when they are the ones needing it least...
...Of course there was the Depression, sufficient to "chill the self-confidence of a generation of young conservatives...
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...Toxicological studies with dogs have allowed pharmaceutical companies to put thousands of useful drugs into production...
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...There was not much need for conservative philosophy when the Founding Fathers had notonly provided it but locked it securely into the structure of government...
...As these 'internationalists' became more assertive," a younger generation tending toward more traditional values has "slowly begun to realize that they have been duped...
...In short, the leadership took a ten-year break from sex . . ." (I have heard a similar "survival of the unfittest" theory used to impute inevitable decline to the Roman Catholic Church, whose "intellectually fittest" members become celibate priests...
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Vol. 22 • February 1989 • No. 2
