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	NO LONGER EVEN REMOTELY NEW! - Political Matrix Thread
		Social extreme authoritarians believe that the government should control society, assuring that moral values are enforced and order is well-maintained, even if that means the sacrifice of individual rights.
		Strong social libertarians generally believe that the government should not judge morality, and are generally against the illegalization of things that do not directly affect other people in a negative way.
		Many strong social libertarians may also be social progressives, favouring legislation to correct what they see as socially backwards governmental regulation, although some simply wish for the government to make no judgement on social matters.
	www.uselectionatlas.org /FORUM/index.php?topic=29882.msg795843 (1166 words)

	Conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The values are cultural as well as social, and primarily relate to individual behaviour and social norms, rather than the state and its structure.
		It is symbolically important precisely because it undermines the traditional social fabric, and the traditional values related to the family and marriage, and because it contravenes the widespread religious taboo on homosexuality.
		The conflation of social and economic conservatism in the US means that the term Liberal is often especially associated with government spending on programs such as welfare.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Conservativism (7495 words)

	Social conservatism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social conservatism is a belief in traditional or natural law-based morality and social mores and the desire to preserve these in present day society, often through civil law or regulation.
		Social change is generally regarded as suspect, while social values based on tradition are generally regarded as tried, tested and true.
		Proponents of social conservatism counter that many "modern" values are also vapid and corrupt, often pointing to the deterioration of the traditional nuclear family over the past century as a result of increased social acceptance of divorce, promiscuity, and homosexuality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_conservativism (235 words)

	Encyclopedia: Conservativism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Social conservatism is generally dominated by defence of existing social norms and values, of local customs and of societal evolution, rather than social upheaval, though the distinction is not absolute.
		Social conservatives generally wish to preserve the current state of their society and impose their society's values on others societies, as opposed to supporting the natural advancement of societies, as liberals do.
		Throughout much of the 20th century, one of the primary forces uniting the occasionally disparate strands of conservatism, and uniting conservatives with their liberal and socialist opponents, was an opposition to communism, which was seen not only as an enemy of the traditional order, but also of western freedom and democracy in general.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Conservativism (5678 words)

	Conservatism Defined - Source for Political Terminology Analysis and Defintions
		Beyond this, heterosexual social conservatives are unlikely to wish to see the definition of marriage extended to include same-sex marriage, while gay social conservatives are prominent among those advocating same-sex marriage: for the latter, it is a way of (at least potentially) tying their own lives more firmly to a traditional social structure.
		Social conservatism and an adherence to certain religious or moral traditions may also be a component of politics that are otherwise generally considered left-wing.
		Social conservatives and (especially) institutional conservatives are generally opposed to sudden and radical change, almost as much so when that change comes from the right as from the left.
	www.politicsdefined.com /content/conservativism.htm (4136 words)

	Political Philosophy [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The former is often referred to as ‘classical liberalism’ leaving the latter unchanged or adapted to ‘social democratic liberalism’, which is a rather confusing mouthful; ‘modern liberalism’ is an easier term to wield and shall be used unless the emphasis is laid upon the socialist leanings of such modern liberals.
		Social democrats may point to the disabled as deserving resources they are not in a position — through no fault of their own — to attain; but psychological disorders can be just as debilitating.
		The political philosophies of liberalism, socialism, conservativism and anarchism — and all of their variants — agree that the good life sought by political philosophy ought to be the good life for human beings.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/p/polphil.htm (6111 words)

	Definitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Economic conservativism is the belief that citizens should keep more of the money they earn, meaning lower taxes and smaller government providing only the most basic of services, with its citizenry and marketplace taking care of the rest, which also means less government regulation on business.
		Social conservatism, on the other hand, is the flip side: a social conservative believes in government intervention in the social or moral realm - that certain acts or behaviors must be regulated by government to assure a moral society.
		A social liberal, on the other hand, believes that government is obligated to stay out of social and moral issues - that an individual has a right to privacy over their body and how they conduct their lives.
	www.likesbooks.com /answerpu.html (253 words)

	Chris Holt : Lounge / Conservativism
		While social statistics are a crude measure of things like community, it is noteworthy that crime and illegitimacy rates in England fell by about half during the heyday of untrammelled capitalism, from the middle to the end of the 19th century.
		Social security and medicare, they say, are financially unsound and socially harmful and could better be replaced by private savings, prefunded medical insurance, greater emphasis on intergenerational obligations within families, and other arrangements that would evolve if the government presence were reduced or eliminated.
		However, social trends toward breakdown of affiliations among individuals, centralization of political power in irresponsible elites, irreconcilable social conflicts, and increasing stupidity and brutality in daily life suggest that those consequences are coming just the same.
	homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk /chris.holt/home.informal/lounge/politics/conservativism/index.1.1995.html (4048 words)

	ESR \| October 20, 2003 \| The different styles of conservatism in Canada
		A proposed definition embracing both paleoconservatism and 'modern social conservatism' is those outlooks upholding and valuing traditional nation, family, and religion, as well as a real work-ethic, and strict law and order.
		It could be argued that paleoconservative and social conservative philosophical outlooks, despite their reputation of obdurate reaction, contain within them various aspects that allow for some degree of coalition building with various other outlooks -- some of them perhaps unexpected, such as ecology.
		The sensitivity of paleoconservatism and social conservatism to 'the truly social' mentioned above offers a certain nuance to their views that is lacking in the usual neoconservative boosterism of unrestricted capitalism and unlimited technology as panacea.
	www.enterstageright.com /archive/articles/1003/1003stylecdncons.htm (1400 words)

	MSN Encarta - Conservatism
		Gradual extension of the franchise, social legislation, and better cooperation between the poor and the rich became part of the conservative tradition.
		This was inspired by the social doctrines of the Roman Catholic church expressed in two encyclicals, Rerum novarum (1891) and Quadragesimo anno (1931).
		In the name of social justice and order, corporatism advocates a close collaboration between employers and workers under the direction of the state in all matters regarding conditions of work, wages, prices, production, and exchange.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761573099 (708 words)

	Conservatism FAQ \| Turnabout (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Social justice must therefore evolve rather than be constructed, and its furtherance therefore requires acceptance of the authority of tradition.
		Social security and medicare, they say, are financially unsound, and are socially harmful because they lead people capable of saving for their own retirement and supporting their own parents to rely on the government instead.
		Nonetheless, social trends toward breakdown of affiliations among individuals, centralization of political power in irresponsible elites, irreconcilable social conflicts, and increasing stupidity, brutality and triviality in daily life suggest that those consequences are coming just the same.
	jkalb.org /?q=node/3 (6960 words)

	Definition of Social conservatism (Canada)
		Compared to the United States, social conservativism is not as wide spread in Canada.
		Social conservatives are usually restricted to more rural settings, and in Western Canada and generally have very little influence in the Canadian government, although that may be beginning to change with the emergence of the Conservative Party of Canada.
		Despite this, social conservativism is viewed with suspicion among the general public in Canada, which only 25% were known to support George W. Bush in his campaign for President of the United States.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Social_conservatism_%28Canada%29 (514 words)

	The Social Contract - U.S. Politics Online: A Political Discussion Forum
		The social contract is a short-hand term used to represent the process whereby individual human beings, who are inherently born 'free in nature', choose to come together to form a common society, for the mutual benefit of all.
		The social contract was, as said, already doubted by democratic rousseau himself in the same book he tried to establish it.
		The major democratic fruit born by the concept of social contract is the nature of the bound between society and an individual.
	www.uspoliticsonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=11865 (2808 words)

	Social Conservatism
		Social Conservatives generally believe government is just focused on the wrong things; they believe government intervention itself is not the problem, but rather a liberal, pun intended, use of government is desirable and necessary to maintain order and increase morality in society.
		Incidentally, and as we might expect, Social Conservatives also tend to be the weakest along the spectrum of economic Conservatism and may also oppose free trade and immigration etc...
		Thirdly, Social Conservatives believe that without government people are not 'good' enough or moral enough to live their lives and individually raise the level of morality in society.
	www.neoperspectives.com /Social_Conservativsm.htm (4348 words)

	Australian Political Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The second dimension will assess your social views, ranging from a belief in conservative nationalistic values to belief in greater civil liberties and social freedoms.
		Conservativism has not been included on the political grid as it is not really a political philosophy but is rather a belief that the rate of change should be slow, or that institutions that existed yesterday should be preserved.
		Effectively, the Labor party wants social democracy because it believes in it, while the Liberals want social democracy because it’s the status quo - and so there is little difference between them.
	www.gravett.org /yobbo/quiz/quiz.htm (1349 words)

	Young Elephant Forums - Which is the most appealing? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		For example, because of social conservatism, I know of a few libertarians who are going to vote for John Kerry (also combined with Bush's anti free trade policies such as steel tariffs, soft lumber dumping tariffs, and tariffs on Chinese goods like Televisions and bras).
		Consequently, social conservatism has the potential to fracture the right and is a facet of the ideology that I find to be more important at this stage in the game.
		Conservative socialism to me means that radical policies don't exist (partial birth abortion, drug legalization, etc.) and that radical policies are viewed with a negative slant.
	www.youngelephant.com /forum/showthread.php?t=157 (2347 words)

	The Problem With Conservatism
		The answer, says the Court, is that "for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized their intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail.
		Ordering social institutions horizontally instead of vertically, it says that each has its own domain, its own authority, and its own ruling norm, for instance love in the case of the family and public justice in the case of the state.
		Indeed the cooperative sort of socialism seems to ignore the circumstance of the Fall, and the compulsory sort cannot even be established without the sin of theft.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9604/articles/budziszewski.html (5543 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Freedom vs. equality by George Will (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Social Security and Medicare are the two most popular and biggest components of government (together, a third of federal outlays and rising as the population ages).
		It diminishes individual competence and dignity and impedes the progress that results from competing social alternatives -- in education, health care and pensions.
		So Bush's presidency, which seals his party's coming-to-terms with the need to put strong government in the service of conservative values, is neither a surrender to the liberal agenda nor an armistice in the struggle over whether social policy should emphasize equality or freedom.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/georgewill/gw20040201.shtml (848 words)

	The Intellectual Incoherence of Conservatism - Mises Institute
		They knew that states everywhere were intent upon breaking down and ultimately destroying families and the institutions and layers and hierarchies of authority that are the natural outgrowth of family based communities in order to increase and strengthen their own power.
		Social education and social security provide an opening for the rebellious youth to escape parental authority (to get away with continuous misbehavior).
		In order to restore social and cultural norms, true conservatives can only be radical libertarians, and they must demand the demolition—as a moral and economic distortion—of the entire structure of the interventionist state.
	www.mises.org /fullstory.aspx?Id=1766 (2813 words)

	The Stopped Clock
		Of course, his brand of conservativism is closer to that of Lincoln that to that of the "party of Lincoln".
		It is what he would call "classic conservativism", and what neo-cons and the religious right might deem "paleo-conservativism" - a conservativism that believes in small government, fiscal responsibility, and keeping the government out of our private lives.
		It is a social conservativism as well, but not the fascism that is presently confused with "conservativism" - his philosophy calls for hard work, loyalty, responsibility, honesty, and for keeping his nose out of his neighbor's business.
	thestoppedclock.blogspot.com /2003/11/conservatives-christian-coalition-on.html (404 words)

	Part-Time Pundit: 21st Century Conservatism Archives
		Reasonable and limited regulation is appropriate, but over regulation just leads to the dynamic where the wealthy and well-connected start to lobby for regulations that tip the scales in their favor.
		There is a temptation in some that the best way to deal with problems in institutions is to disregard the benefits they provide, burn the institution to the ground, and hope a Phoenix rises from the ashes.
		Social institutions that stand the test of time need not be tampered with, or destroyed without good cause.
	jcb.pentex-net.com /archives/21st_century_conservativism (1926 words)

	David Willetts MP
		That message of social reform is at the heart of Conservative renewal today.
		We prided ourselves that Britain had achieved a great post-war success in creating a mixed economy in pensions whereas on the Continent pensioners were too dependent on the state for their incomes.
		Social Democrats must reconcile both the claims of choice and equity.
	www.davidwilletts.org.uk /ccoarticle.jsp?type=speech§ionID=2&objectID=81937 (6284 words)

	NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
		My sense is that the Right has dominated the past few years of political discourse because conservativism thrives when presented with an enemy, a prevailing, threatening "other" against which conservatives try to define themselves and their country.
		We see many social conservatives sneering at European secularism in eerily the same way fundamentalist Muslims scorn the secular governments in their area of the world.
		Every time in the past century that social conservatives have won political battles and pushed their agenda to the fore, it has been followed by a liberal backlash that has inched social conservativism ever leftward.
	www.nwanews.com /story.php?paper=nwat§ion=Editorial&storyid=27574 (1119 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Conservativism Under Corporatism by Robert Locke
		Of course, the counter-argument to this is that socialism is better for us because it tends to self-destruct because socialism doesn't work while corporatism frequently does deliver.
		The fundamental problem with both socialism and corporatism is that they are attempts to solve social problems by economic means.
		Capitalism in its pure form was never interested in "social problems." Therefore they both further one of the most worrisome trends of our time: the tendency of social structure to be liquidated by economics.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=3539 (1681 words)

	Social osteoporosis (Steve Harris, M.D.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This kind of meddling is not so bad in teens and young adults, but you can practically see the narrow minded conservativism emerge generally in people after 35.
		In women it is apt to turn into a horrid sort of gossipy social activism, and in men it becomes a lock em up old-fart kind of conservativism.
		I think of this as social osteoporosis, after another set of genes with pleiotropic [differently acting] effects.
	www.yarchive.net /med/social_osteoporosis.html (442 words)

	Alarming News: Unite.
		Conservativism seems to have an unstoppable urge to shoot itself square in the toe.
		That social conservatives and economic conservatives are often clashing with each other can not be denied; one of the reasons I want Bush to beat Kerry is I think the two sides are going to beat the living crap out of each other if Bush loses to the determinet of all sides.
		I suspect most socially liberal Republicans live in the blue areas; it is easy to see why say a writer for the National Review on Lexington Avenue or the Weekly Standard inside the Beltway would not understand why the social right would be up in arms on the Mel Gibson film for example.
	www.alarmingnews.com /archives/001992.html (5279 words)

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