The US is moving to the left and the UK to the right. In the US, a Republican PR spokesman has shopped the Bush administration and the owner of Fox News and the Wall Street journal is praising Obama. In the UK someone who went to the same school as Prince William has replaced a Trotskyist as London Mayor and a Bishop makes today’s headlines with a supreme piece of irrational thinking, blaming the culture of the civil rights movement for social decay and secularism for the rise of Islam.
With Scott McLellan shopping the Bush administration, people are wondering why? The answer is to be like his Dad, how ironic that family conservatism should undermine the Republicans:
“McClellan’s father, Barr McClellan, was an attorney for the National Labor Relations Board and then for the Federal Power Commission under Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. Barr McClellan also wrote a book about power and Washington: “Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK.” Published in 2003, the book claims that Texas attorney — and McClellan’s former boss — Ed Clark masterminded the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” Link
If Murdoch switches from Republican to Democrat he will be doing what he did before in the UK, with a switch from Conservative to Labour. People who actually believe what they preach at the Wall Street Journal and Fox News may be in for a rude awakening. Link
In England, where I am at the moment, there is a palpable shift to the right, not to fiscal conservatism but to anachronistic social conservatism. A scatter-brained Church of England Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali makes headlines in the papers today saying that all the UK’s social problems are a fault of the progressive secular culture and that this creates a moral vacuum that allows for Fundamentalist Islam. In other words secular culture is responsible for bad religion, which is defined as the religion that is not his, and that the moral decay in society is due to what gave us the civil rights movement. Link