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Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash: A View from Annapolis

Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash: A View from Annapolis Paperback / softback - 2006

by Bruce Fleming

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Paperback / softback. New. Offers an explanation for the polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape. This book presents a set of guidelines to predict a person's views based on other views they hold, given that each world-view is what it is for structural reasons, and is more than a sum of discrete positions.
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  • Title Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash: A View from Annapolis
  • Author Bruce Fleming
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 242
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge
  • Date 2006-04-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # B9780415953535
  • ISBN 9780415953535 / 0415953537
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.68 x 0.54 in (22.86 x 16.97 x 1.37 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Politics and government, Political culture - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005031273
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.209

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Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. It suggests that liberal thought is intrinsically different from conservative thought, and that each constitutes a self-subsistent world-view with its specific qualities and rules. The book offers a set of guidelines to predict a person's views based on other views s/he holds, given that each world-view is what it is for structural reasons, and is more than merely a sum of discrete positions. It explains, for example, why people who support gay marriage also typically support the woman's right to an early-term abortion, and why people who demand that citizens "support the military" understand this as meaning, support putting members of the military in harm's way. Because liberal thought and conservative thought each constitutes a closed world-view, neither side will ever convince the other in an argument. The most we can hope for is an acknowledgment by each side of the usefulness of the other, a goal Fleming proposes as the most reasonable one for our times.

Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash makes logical the most striking, and hitherto puzzling feature of the contemporary American political landscape: its acrimony, its air of being an argument between the deaf: neither side understands the other. Fleming suggests this is so because neither side accepts the bases underlying the other's particular positions. We can, however, understand that they are different, and that trying to force the other side into submission won't work. We need to go beyond liberals dismissing conservatives with horror and conservatives dismissing liberals with disgust. Conservatives aren't merely imperfect liberals, they're something else entirely. Liberals aren't merely potential conservatives, they actually think differently.