Republicanism and Victorianism. Let me get up on my soapbox and tell you guys about what happened with my analytical knife.
I don't think that Reagan-era Republicanism (Thatcherism included) was in anyway close to Victorian ideals. The PBS series Command Economy documented how Reagan and Thatcher put into international politics the policies and practices of capitalism, an inherently dynamic system as compared to Keynsian gov't regulated economics. Of course my 27 year old mind doesn't know much about Victorian era anything, but the rigid social values that seem to be implied anytime anybody uses that phrase or word seems to be linked, at least in my mind, more with New-Deal era changes than the dismantling that went on during the early and mid-eighties under Thatcher and Reagan (and now with Dubya's privatization push). I'd even go so far as to say that the transformations that REagan and Bush made undergirded the unprecedented prosperity that America expereinced during Clinton's run as president, and even the dynamism in the economy that padded and obviated the recession we should be in had the economy not been dynamic. The rigid morals running rampant in Republicanism alstwhile dismantling social-support such as welfare (individual) and perhaps social-security is counter-balanced with advances in individual wealth building and saving, i.e. 401ks, IRA's, stock-options and so forth. These allow individuals to be more responsible and have more say in the quality of the products they buy when they're retired. To me that seems to be on a higher MOQ level (individual) than social-security(duh-social). So i'd like to ask on a sideline what SPECIFICALLY has people equating Reagan-era politics and policies with Victorianism? >From its inception America has been one of the most dynamic countries. So much so that what if the dynamism is so much a part of the culture that it's a given (unfortunately). Does a caught fish thrown back into the drink know its in water? Amilcar Dance 'til your knees hurt Giggle 'til you're gone Love with abandon Do MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_focus/ MF Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_focus follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/mf/subscribe.html
