Friday 22 January 2010
A Happy Union
Richard Madeley was right on Question Time. The State should "nod back" in approval when a man and a woman enter into the commitment of marriage. And societies in which marriage is valued in that and other ways are happier, more successful, more coherent. The same is true when the State acts decisively against poverty, ignorance, ill health, idleness and squalor. Traditional family values, and traditional social democracy: there must be both, and each can ultimately only be guaranteed by the activist State.
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Excellent post. I could not agree more. I am sorry I missed this post at first, because it is spot on. It is unfortunate that more people cannot see the connection between social democracy and social traditionalism. I try to convince social traditionalists that the combination of social democracy and social conservatism is the only combination that really makes sense. But a lot of people on the Right have a bizarre hatred of the State, per se. There is a tendency, at least in the US, to equate any activist State with the Soviet Union and now Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
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