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Calpundit reads a David Frum column so as to conclude that the presumed rightward drift of the US's political landscape is largely an illusion.

Huh. Interesting take on things. I think I agree with Frum and Drum (rhyming pundits:w00t!) that the bedrock principles of liberalism-- that is, public schooling and all that jazz-- are pretty deeply ingrained in the American way of thinking. But that doesn't mean that Conservatism isn't insurgent. It's kind of like a bastardized version of geology. Liberalism is like tectonic plates, see, and conservatism is volcanoes. Sure, at the moment the bedrock is liberal, but in a million years or so liberalism will have been drawn back down into the mantle and Conservative values will be bedrock. And so on and so on.

I apologize. That was the single most tortured and inapt analogy I have ever committed to type, and that's saying a lot.

But what more can I do? I was educated in a poorly-funded public school.