{"id":407,"date":"2008-12-02T21:51:45","date_gmt":"2008-12-03T05:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/wordpress\/?p=407"},"modified":"2008-12-05T18:15:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T02:15:27","slug":"dreher-problem-today-is-too-much-individual-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dreher-problem-today-is-too-much-individual-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreher: problem today is &#8220;too much individual freedom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Crunchy conservative&#8221; Rod Dreher&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.usatoday.com\/oped\/2008\/12\/gops-path-to-vi.html\">USA Today op-ed<\/a> is entitled &#8220;GOP&#8217;s path to victory still goes through God&#8221;, and at least he doesn&#8217;t shy away from telling us where he stands: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today, the greatest threats to conservative interests come not from the Soviet Union or high taxes, but from too much individual freedom. &#8230; All political problems, traditional conservatism teaches, are ultimately religious problems because they result from disordered souls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Less individual freedom. Religion inserted into the management of &#8220;all&#8221; political problems since they all, without exception, &#8220;result from disordered souls&#8221;. What an appealing future for conservatism. Do you think Jeffrey Hart might have had a point when he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2008-11-16\/the-christian-party\/\">described such a tendency<\/a> as &#8220;toxic to moderate, independent, suburban, young and, more inclusively, educated voters&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>P.S.<\/strong> Some other reactions to Dreher&#8217;s column: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/americans_too_free\/\">James Joyner<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/donklephant.com\/2008\/12\/01\/the-gops-god-problem-part-two\/\">Dennis Sanders<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/belowthebeltway.com\/2008\/12\/02\/the-problem-with-social-conservatives\/\">Doug Mataconis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YzViZWQ4MzVhNmM4NTgyYWQ0ZDhhNzllNWRhYzU5ZDg=\">Andrew Stuttaford<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Crunchy conservative&#8221; Rod Dreher&#8217;s new USA Today op-ed is entitled &#8220;GOP&#8217;s path to victory still goes through God&#8221;, and at least he doesn&#8217;t shy away from telling us where he stands: Today, the greatest threats to conservative interests come not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/dreher-problem-today-is-too-much-individual-freedom\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[15,1],"tags":[66,52],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}