Words Like Locusts Flew From Her Fingers

A Reason For Optimism

Salon.com News | Scrooge’s nightmare: “And why do social conservatives loom so large in our politics today? The best historical parallel for them may be the Luddites who terrorized Britain two centuries ago, the workers who traveled around the country smashing machines for fear that the Industrial Revolution would destroy their jobs and way of life. They were loud, and their tenacity gave the impression that they represented more Britons than they actually did, when in fact they were merely acting out their despair and outrage at a world that was passing them by. Today’s social conservatives are our cultural Luddites.”

…An interesting article. The author’s premise is that the great “silent majority” of socially liberal citizens will become politically active if Bush’s new Supreme Court members really do begin chipping away at civil liberties.