{"id":303,"date":"2004-01-09T06:15:04","date_gmt":"2004-01-09T06:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:27","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:27","slug":"la_nouvelle_vague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=303","title":{"rendered":"La Nouvelle Vague"},"content":{"rendered":"

Calpundit has two good posts up on liberalism and historic cycles; I want to send you over to take a look at them and think about what he says.<\/p>\n

His first post<\/a> is about the fact – and I agree that it’s a fact – that elements of ‘New Deal liberal’ politics and policies are so embedded in our political nature that, like fish and water, we no longer see them.<\/p>\n

I don’t think the left is doing quite as well as he projects (as far as gun laws go, people like me are happier this decade than we’ve been in a while, and while GWB is expanding the state, the beneficiaries seem more to be large corporations than small business or individuals).His second post<\/a> is truly intriguing. He raises the question of what the next progressive wave will look like. He says:<\/p>\n

None of this is to say that these issues from previous progressive eras are dead. They aren’t: healthcare, for example, is likely to be a significant issue in the coming decade. At the same time, however, they aren’t likely to be the enormous drivers of social change that they have been in the past.<\/p>\n

But if the big issue of the next progressive era isn’t labor, the social safety net, or individual rights, what will it be? Today, in hindsight, we can see Truman’s integration of the armed forces and Jackie Robinson’s debut with the Dodgers as the first faint stirrings of the great civil rights crusade that drove the 60s, but nobody in 1950 could have predicted that. Likewise, there is probably something simmering below the surface today that will drive the next big progressive era.<\/p>\n

But what?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Exactly – what is the principle around which the left side of the house will coalesce? Hmmm…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Calpundit has two good posts up on liberalism and historic cycles; I want to send you over to take a look at them and think about what he says. His first post is about the fact – and I agree that it’s a fact – that elements of ‘New Deal liberal’ politics and policies are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}