The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

The left has lost the common touch.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.