Social conservatisim is (mostly) no longer a viable position in terms of addressing the major social issues in our very large and very diverse society. Why? because there is no turning back the clock. There is no way to put the genie back into the bottle.

Social conservatism works for smaller, relatively homogenous, and cohesive communities and societies in which there does not occur a lot of geographic mobility, adult children live in close proximity to elderly parents, neighbors live in long association with one another and therefore have a sense of connection and community responsibility for one another, a sufficient number of employers have a stake in the well-being of the community as being in their best business interests, etc.

That ain't the reality of the USA today, and it ain't the direction we are headed in, largely as a result of capitalism run riot.

As an aside, I am not opposed to capitalism. I am opposed to capitalism unrestrained by any other values. Capitalism per se is not immoral. It is, however, amoral. When capitalism has ultimate primacy in the philosophy, choices and actions of an individual, corporation or government, many of those decisions and actions will be immoral.

Social conservatism in the USA today looks backwards to conventions, traditions, and social conditions that no longer exist in our society for the most part. Social conservatism is not capable of restraining unbridled capitalism in the current age. In fact, it has been co-opted.

Janie