Socially Liberal But Economically Conservative

There is a post over to Crooked Timber concerning the split between cultural and economic leftists and liberals or, at least, that's how I read it. In the comments the notion of nominal Liberals who are Socially/Culturally Liberal but Economically Conservative comes up. I think they mean people like Heath Shuler. I would argue that eh s/cl ec wing of the Democratic or Republican parties mean that they are in favor of rich people running the country and don't particularly care one way or the other about anything else. When the "New Left" denounced big labor for protecting white male privilege it wasn't just an attempt to win for marginalized groups the right to be and to enjoy legal equality it was also an attempt to restructure the economy around the idea of justice as equality in all available meanings. What we got was limited, incremental improvement in the condition of women and minorities, which is now being destroyed by the Republicans, by Neoliberals like Clinton on the condition that the rich get to get richer and the poor ever more screwed.