{"id":106577,"date":"2016-09-13T13:37:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106577"},"modified":"2016-09-13T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T21:37:39","slug":"rod-dreher-reacts-to-charles-murrays-snobby-libertarian-dismissal-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=106577","title":{"rendered":"‘Rod Dreher reacts to Charles Murray\u2019s snobby libertarian dismissal of Trump’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rod Dreher writes<\/a>: This is the thing that drives me nuts about libertarians. It is a philosophy that works for people who have a significant degree of self-control, or who at least have internalized a social ethic of self-control. That is not most of humanity. When we were a more religious country, there was a certain moral code imposed by the mainstream that, fair or not, kept a lot of people from going off the rails. That\u2019s gone.<\/p>\n

Just yesterday I ran into a friend who told me about N., a woman we both know. N. is a white working class woman who, earlier this summer, left her husband and three kids to run off with a guy she met. Now she\u2019s strung herself out on pills, and has left that guy. Some variation on this story plays out over and over among a people that within living memory may have lacked money and education, but had a coherent, binding moral code by which they lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rod Dreher writes: This is the thing that drives me nuts about libertarians. It is a philosophy that works for people who have a significant degree of self-control, or who at least have internalized a social ethic of self-control. That … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,211],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservatives","category-libertarian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t