Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

…moral paralysis of those who value 'openness' above all (democracy is more than) openness and toleration... In the absence of common standards... tolerance becomes indifference.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.