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We are as suspicious of big business as we are of big government. We rarely watch TV, disdain modern architecture and suburban sprawl, avoid shopping malls, and spend our money on good food we prepare at home. My wife even makes her own granola....generally speaking, Small and Local and Particular and Old are better.
Where did this quote come from? The Green Party Platform? Hardly. It comes from an article from the National Review Online (a Bush-boosting publication) that details the confessions of a Granola G.O.P.er.
Writer Paul Johnson and his wife belong to a food Co-op. They don't watch TV, they're for the protection of the environment, against hormones etc. added to cattle, and generally live a lifestyle that would be called, if practiced by a peasant dress-wearing 60s refugee, earthy. But Johnson labels himself and his lifestyle deeply conservative, if out of step with the mainstream Republican version of that ideology.
Is he fooling himself? Can he really attribute the accessability of suburban "good chain bookstores, whole-food co-ops, specialty shops
that cater to eclectic tastes" which make his lifestyle practical to the invisible hand of the free market? How can someone praise the free market and then despise the sprawl and shopping malls the voices of dollars create? Is the only reason millions of Americans describe themselves as conservative their religion (which seems to be the case here)? |
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