The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.