On 2/25/2011 2:25 PM, Michael Pollak wrote:
> The tricky thing about all this is the sharp disjuncture between
> economic and social issues. All this rightward shift is true about
> the economic agenda. But of course when it comes to social freedom for
> blacks, women and gays, things are incomparably better now than 50
> years ago.
>
> It makes it hard to talk coherently about things moving left or right
> when the political culture has moved in quite opposite directions on
> these two axes.
I wonder about that though. When it comes to social freedom for blacks, say, isn't it possible to say that the real transformation came in the 50's and 60's, and that everything since then has just been about the logical results of that transformation? The same thing could be suggested about gays in the 70's. This is a question rather than a statement.
SA