Statist next to Conservative =.=
We're all liberals and conservatives now. We've defeated fascism and radical socialism. Now many of our nations are social democracies.
We want to preserve our liberal institutions (a free market, democracy, human rights, etc), but we need to make concessions and realize the destabilizing nature of total freedom (cyclical economies, market breakdowns, inequality, prejudice, racism, corruption, etc) and thus we need to take action to prevent that.
What the 50's were all about, was preventing another Nazi Germany from arising again. Now we have the Tea Party, politicians playing chicken with our country (debt ceiling), a generation of elderly and college graduates afraid for their future and security, and a feeling of disappointment with politics.
It's almost ironic, we're sort of like the conservatives after the French Revolution. We see what we have now as something fragile and needing to protected.
