Socially left view history as an arrow pointing in one direction: forward. If a negative change occurs, for example the loss of some prior tradition, this isn't attributed to a contingent and reversible cultural shift but the unfolding of a new truth that can't be unseen.
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That's my impression of the learned right as well. Most people don't have views that completely tack one way or the other, and most conservatives (like Ben) are right-liberal
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Abortion fits fairly neatly into a vulgar left-liberal narrative of the liberating march of capitalist rationalism and a right-liberal narrative of capitalist-rationalist overreach.
End of conversation
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