People can change their minds without changing their political identities. Meanwhile, seemingly strange alliances have popped up on subjects no one paid much attention to until recently. Immigration attracts similar left-right opposition. The movement to drastically curtail U.S. legal immigration levels has vocal conservative supporters, including Buchanan, former National Review senior editor Peter Brimelow, and Reagan administration immigration commissioner Alan Nelson. And many smaller anti-immigration groups, such as the Carrying Capacity Network, draw almost entirely from the environmentalist left.
Information is now a commodity that is bought and sold.
To oppose genetic patents, Rifkin, in 1995, rallied nearly two hundred religious leaders, prominently including representatives of the conservative Southern Baptist Convention. Economic and cultural dynamism get similar treatment. This new commercial ethos, not a few movies and rap albums, is the root cause of the unease many Americans feel about the culture around them. Their anguish is not always coherent, nor is it expected to be. If stasist criticisms are impossibly vague, they seem all the more profound.