{"id":187,"date":"2012-01-10T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/01\/a-leading-conservative-stumps-for-the-common-good\/"},"modified":"2012-01-10T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T14:23:00","slug":"a-leading-conservative-stumps-for-the-common-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/01\/a-leading-conservative-stumps-for-the-common-good.html","title":{"rendered":"A Leading Conservative Stumps for the Common Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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It\u2019s an election year so nonsense is afoot no matter where you turn. But I just read a very common sense argument for the common good. And it was not at Sojourners or a lefty news outfit. It was from Fox\u2019s Bill Kristol.<\/span>

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In my most recent article at the Huffington Post<\/a>, I had some harsh things to say about Fox News & the right wing radio crowd. I honestly think Fox has grown to fully resemble the caricature of themselves we used to see on SNL. It used to be a joke. Now it\u2019s all too real. When your viewers are consistently less informed than people who get all of their news from satirical news shows like the Daily Show and the Colbert Report, it\u2019s probably time to stop calling yourself fair and balanced\u2026 I\u2019m just saying. Why not just get a new tagline like, \u201cNews That\u2019s Right,\u201d or \u201cThe Conservative Perspective,\u201d and be proud of it?<\/span>

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Nevertheless, I\u2019ve always kind of like Kristol. He doesn\u2019t froth at the mouth and although I agree with very little of his politics, he\u2019s always seemed like a reasonable guy. Kristol had an extremely piece in The Weekly Standard. <\/i>Remember Kristol is a Fox contributor and conservative\/neo-con leader. He\u2019s writing in\u00a0<\/span>The Weekly Standard<\/i>,\u00a0<\/span>which is an extremely conservative publication.\u00a0<\/span>

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In<\/span>\u00a0the article Kristol writes:<\/span>

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\u201cPost 2008, capitalism needs its strong defenders\u2014but its defenders need also to be its constructive critics. The Tea Party was right. What\u2019s needed is a critique of Big Government above all, but also of Big Business and Big Finance and Big Labor (and Big Education and Big Media and all the rest)\u2014and especially a critique of all those occasions when one or more of these institutions conspire against the common good. What\u2019s needed is a willingness to put Main Street (at least slightly) ahead of Wall Street, and a reform agenda for capitalism that strengthens it, alongside an even more dramatic reform agenda for government that limits it.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


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I seriously almost fell out of my chair. For one thing, it\u2019s nearly word for word what I wrote in my critique of the Tea Party in the Huffington Post<\/a>. The common good is under siege. For another thing, a leading conservative just made a cogent argument for the reform of capitalism and the common good\u2026 what the what?\u00a0<\/span>

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He recommends \u201ca reform agenda for capitalism,\u201d and says that the critique of big government must also extend to \u201cBig Business and Big Finance, and Big Labor\u2026 especially when one or more of these institutions conspire against the common good.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>I think Kristol will have some serious trouble on his right flank (I didn\u2019t know he had one!) \u2013 but I say, go for it William! You are making some sense.<\/span>

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