Amitai Etzioni Neo - Liberalism - The
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NE OF THE most striking as0 pects of the 1960 election campaign is that it was waged between two comparatively liberal platforms and candidates. It is true that Kennedy carried the standard of a party whose majority is actually liberal, whereas Nixon represented a party which had subscribed to a relatively liberal platfonn (including a rather strong civil rights position) with some reluctance, and Nixon himself was, at the very best, but a recent convert to liberalism. Yet these differences are of secondary importance: the main political fact is that the majority of voters-and in a sense the entire political climate-was moving toward a liberal orientation. Both parties, in the conventions as in the campaign, were pushed into emphasizing their progressive elements, and that John F. Kennedy was elected only dramatizes the increasing scope and potency of the liberal forces in the United States. For the election of Kennedy serves to mark nothing less than 'the end of a neo-conservative decade and the beginning of a neo-liberal one-not only in the United States but
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