I have one answer: The direction society goes is generally driven not so much by the more apathetical majority but rather the more militant minority. That said, I would say that it is the militantly faithful Christians and the hard right among the Libertarians who drive the direction the Republican Party goes. And the Republican Party, in turn, has set the direction of the nation during the last half century in a way similar to the way the Democratic Party set the direction during the half century before that. We all are all to aware of the dogma of the Christian Right, but what is that of the Libertarians? It is, after all, an ideology also. It is a belief that, ideally, business can and should take over the functions of government. A significan number of Libertarians do not feel business should or can go that far, but they all agree that "Big Government" is bad but business (which they do not refer to as "Big" Business) is better than government and that "the less government the better." Most of us are familiar with the Hippy movement following the Vietnam war and the mess they made of their lives. We are generally femailar also with the gay parades of San Francisco. All this tended to sap the energy of the liberal movement and give emphatis to conservatism. No longer is the liberal movement nearly as liberal now as it was and the conservative movement is what has been leading the left away from its earlier more radical nature.
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