[lbo-talk] Conservatism

[Alan Rudy]

>
> So get out of the way and let the technocrats do their thing. There's
> a division of labour on the right between the full-blown
> conservatives, who shout down the left, and the technocrats, who run
> things. Sometimes, though, the conservatives get above their station
> and interfere with the technocrats, to whom they're an embarrassment.
> I think this happens in the US pretty regularly, for whatever reason,
> and it is a real contradiction.
>
> ooooo, I like this, too... except the technocratic thing obviously cuts
across left and right, no, and some of the populist right's fury is directed
at what they see - again following a Weberian kind of argument - as liberal
technocrats run amok.
As we've seen in the Great Society and environmental movement, the
undemocratic realms of expert science-based policy and professional
bureaucratic implementation rubs all sorts of people the wrong way...