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SBricker Amendment; repeal of the "The positivist and materialist Federal Reserve Banking Act; get philosopher of our educational out of the United Nations and get theory and practice, of our radio it out of the United States; work and television and press, of our against Federal aid to education; academic and intellectual circles, work to dismantle a good part of eats away at the fabrics of prin- the unnecessary part of the Fed- ciple and belief which is Western eral bureaucracy; and immedi- civilization. Everywhere the same ately reorganize the Securities revolutionary spirit expresses it- and Exchange Commission. self." In this same context it is most enlightening to observeithe out- EXPLAINING ultra-conservatism lines for a third political party and locating its roots are not suggested by John Flynn, nearly so easy as characterizing Its principles: pledge itself to a its ideology. While the ultra-con- quick return to the Constitution in servative can usually be found in all its parts; recognize the United any class of society, Hofstadter States is a federal republic and says the group's power "probably the states are sovereign republics, rests largely upon its appeal to supreme within their boundaries, the less educated members of the except as specifically limited by middle class." the Constitution; recognize that It surely would be incorrect to the Supreme Court, as presently claim that ultra - conservatism constituted, is dedicated to the de- stems from a single course. Partly, structionof the American political the movement is a continuation of and economic system; recognize the old isolationism, but there are that the function of the Federal are also important economic and Republic is to govern the United social factors such as drastic in- States within severely contracted flation and heavy taxes, the dis- limits and not to attempt either to solution of American urban life, govern or to f.nance any other na- and consideration of partisan po- tion or continents; recognize that litical expediency. the government must restrain But many students of the ultra- from spending money (except dur- conservative segment of politics ing war) in excess of tax revenues. believe a deeper, more compre- To this end the power to tax in- hensive explanation is needed. Hof- comes must at abolished or se- stadter advances what he calls a verely restricted and the United purely speculative hypothesis "that States must get out of the U.N. ultra-conservatism is in good part N f . THE DESIRE of ultra-conser a- tives to ioim a new political party is easily understood. While calling themselves Repub- licans, the ultra-conservatives to- cay are virtuaiy men without a party. If they supported President Eisenhower in 1952 as many ap- parently did, their opinion of him by 1959 has dropped considerably. The Mercury also claims the Republican Party has "no settled principles, is heavily infiltrated by left-wing adventrrers of various stripes, is hopelessly implicted in a group of costly friendships with dangerous allies, has forgotten the language of the Constitution and is committed to continue the fatal policy of spending at home and abroad plus the un-American in- astitution of militarism." a product of the rootlessness and heterogeneity of American life and above all of its peculiar scramble for status and its peculiar search for secure identity." IPSET has outlined some of the major groups he believes give support to the ultra-conservative wing. They include: 1) groups reacting to the need for status politics (upward mobile ethnic populations and some of the downward mobile old American groups); 2) groups responding to eco- nomic as well as status appeals; 3) the nouveaux riches and inse- cure small businessmen; 4) the traditionalist and authori- tarian elements within the work- ing class groups whose values or ties to groups in other countries make them especially vulnerable to anti-Communist appeals; A THIE ultra-conservative, then, is v5) traditional isolationists, es- opposed to nearly everything pecially those of German ancestry, that exists in the political sphere The first reason, reaction to sta- today. He sees a major revolution tus politics, needs further discus- that threatens the economic sta- sion. The concept of status poli- bility and fundamental liberties, tics gives a new frame of reference Perhaps the best expression of for explaining political forces and this great fear of everything that is perhaps the most basic point is happening today, I found in an in arriving at an understanding of article by Frank Meyer. the ultra-conservatives. "In a fundamental sense the dominant forces in American life JOFSTADTER conceives of two today are revolutionary, that is, types of politics: interest and they are directed towards the de- status. struction of the principles of West- The former is best seen as a ern civilization and the American clash of material aims and needs tradition, among various groups and blocs. "The politics of New Dealism, It is, in other words, the type of Fair Dealigmand New Republican- politics that is familiar to any ism (emphasis mine) are directed student of government and to towards the strengthening of the Americans who have even limited State and diminution of the per- knowledge of the operation of the son. The prevalent quasi-Marxist political system. and Keynesian economics are di- (Concluded on Page 6) HANDCRAFTED GIFTS JEWELRY ART Only for those seeking THE UNUSUAL! LAKE LDESIGNMS 209 S. STATE STREET Below Marshall's Book Store THE MICHIGAN DAILY MAGAZINE Page Four