The Future of Social Conservatism

[Simfan34]

Aren't anti-porn, game violence really liberal now?

[Simfan34]

Another last line of defense is nudity and profanity on network TV. Of course in 50 years there probably wont be a distinction between network tv and cable tv so that may also be moot.

We're loosing that fast. Profanity particularly, and both in general terms in society.

[Simfan34]

My fear is that social conservatism will be rendered so irrelevant that all I'll be left with is railing against people wearing four-in-hand dies who deem it to be "black tie". I am a social conservative. I believe in morality, what is proper, what is right. Nuclear families, traditional marriage (with civil unions), a strong personal faith within organized religion, opposition to abortion, opposition to pornography and crudeness in the public sphere, topped with an admittedly rigid view of social etiquette and rules.

Combined with changes in the social dynamic thanks to the future, and the overall decline of the United States, I get pretty depressed thinking about the future these days.

No one in my generation thinks like that.

[Simfan34]

My fear is that social conservatism will be rendered so irrelevant that all I'll be left with is railing against people wearing four-in-hand dies who deem it to be "black tie". I am a social conservative. I believe in morality, what is proper, what is right. Nuclear families, traditional marriage (with civil unions), a strong personal faith within organized religion, opposition to abortion, opposition to pornography and crudeness in the public sphere, topped with an admittedly rigid view of social etiquette and rules.

Combined with changes in the social dynamic thanks to the future, and the overall decline of the United States, I get pretty depressed thinking about the future these days.

No one in my generation thinks like that.

Well there is nothing wrong with feeling that way and I am sure that there will always be religious/social conservatives. The thing that is losing favor is the effort to use the levers of government to impose those beliefs on everyone.

As for the United States. I think it is a lot more resilient. I do find it ironic that so many of those who talk about American exceptionalism are also those who seem to think that the nation is so fragile that it will decline or collapse over these societal changes.

I hope it's resilient. By the way, by the time I'm complaining, most people won't wear ties... sigh.

[Simfan34]

I constantly worry that in the future my type will be viewed just as horribly as Jim Crow segregationists are now. After thinking that, I wonder "what's the point? Everything I believe, whether right or wrong, will be rendered "wrong" in public morality as this worl eventually drifts leftward" and I'll even wonder sometimes if I'm just an impediment to the unstoppable march of time. Liberals, whether for better or for worse, have the direction of the world on their side, it seems. As for social conservatism evolving, that still is no comfort. I'll bet the segregationists of the 1950's are pleased that social cosnervatism evolved into fighting over abortion after the decades they fought for the right to segregate. In the same vein, why should I be happy that in the future, social cosnervatism evolves away from the issues I've believed in as they're rendered irrelvant and onto regulating sexbots?

Thus is essentially my view.