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Quote by Gerda Lerner
The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise tha

The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrified of change there, because its the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained. – Gerda Lerner

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