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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Europe and American-style Conservatism

The American Right is a combination of liberalism (liberty seeking) and conservative (order seeking) while the American Left is a combination of liberalism and socialism (equity seeking). Europe has actual liberals, conservatives, and socialists. Attempts to build a coallition of economic liberals and social conservatives proves hard in Europe, as this piece in the Brussels Journal demonstrates. Liberals are wary of funding them, because of the social conservatism, and conservatives seem to not be interested either. In the comments you can see the Liberals posting warrily about how an illiberal social policy can support a liberal agenda (the notion that liberal economics is best insured by a Christian society). The Brussels Journal mostly publishes about its Liberal agenda of smaller goverments, EU-scepticism, lower taxes, less regulation, and free trade. As such its not a regular stopping point for European conservatives who might otherwise be posting in complaint of a social order which does not protect its people from the vicitudes of a liberal economy.

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