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Thomas Sowell: "Us" or "Them"
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| October 25, 2005
| Dr. Thomas Sowell
Posted on 10/25/2005 2:24:39 AM PDT by RWR8189
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To: Our man in washington
Congratulations. Thanks for giving some of us hope of finding a good Conservative that is still available.
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posted on
10/25/2005 8:37:27 AM PDT
by
CSM
(When laws are written, they apply to ALL...Not just the yucky people you don't like. - HairOfTheDog)
To: XJarhead
Lucky guy. Imagine if he had married her...
82
posted on
10/25/2005 8:38:54 AM PDT
by
Little Ray
(I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
To: RWR8189
This has always been a key difference between true conservatism and others:
In other words, it was not really about which policy would produce what results. It was about personal identification with lofty goals and kindred souls.
83
posted on
10/25/2005 8:39:18 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(feel the love brothers and sisters...what if?)
To: RWR8189; kristinn; tgslTakoma; Landry Fan; Albion Wilde; Justanobody; BufordP; bmwcyle; ...
Excellent Article. New tag line.
TS nails it. This is precisely how the CANSWER crowd and the Code Pinkos think. 'Pod.
84
posted on
10/25/2005 8:39:26 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." - T.S. Eliot)
To: George Smiley
Believe it or not, Sowell used to be a Marxist. I can believe it, as I used to be one myself. At least I share something with the brilliant professor!
To: hellinahandcart
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posted on
10/25/2005 8:40:45 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important." - T.S. Eliot)
To: RWR8189
when in fact he was asking her to give up her sense of being one of the morally anointed. Excellent point in an excellent article.
87
posted on
10/25/2005 8:41:06 AM PDT
by
livius
To: XJarhead
Actually, it was a he, we were frat brothers, and once best friends. We roomed together to save on rent and utilities, but he could never get over the fact that I was an evil Republican, just like his parents were. We didn't speak for two weeks after the 1994 election, because he was so stunned by the Gingrich takeover, and like I said earlier, we haven't spoken since the Battle of Florida. His own idol, Algore, couldn't steal the election, and it drove him over the edge.
Most of the cute girls I either hung out with or dated in college were already conservative, or I converted them. Once they get out of the comfy confines of school and into the real world, they learned real fast that maybe I wasn't so crazy after all to be warning them about the perils of liberalism. ;^)
88
posted on
10/25/2005 8:42:43 AM PDT
by
ABG(anybody but Gore)
(This tagline is under remodeling, thank you for your patience...)
To: Our man in washington
convince me to give up my leftism and adopt a more mature approach to the world. maturity is a lot of it....i'm amazed at some who never grow up...or worse, liberalize with age.
congrats.
89
posted on
10/25/2005 8:42:46 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(feel the love brothers and sisters...what if?)
To: RWR8189
Many crusades of the political left have been misunderstood by people who do not understand that these crusades are about establishing the identity and the superiority of the crusaders. Political correctness is like this too, with the added motivation of wanting to signal to other people what a fine person you are. Thus we get this sort of race to the bottom to see who in the West can self-loathe the fastest with the mostest. This is the stuff of which piggy banks in Britain are banned, and mass-casualty bombings of civilian targets become the fault of everyone but the bomber.
90
posted on
10/25/2005 8:43:22 AM PDT
by
untenured
(http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
To: Our man in washington
Great story! As one who has often suffered through the "well, I really liked you until I discovered you were conservative" response, you have my sympathies - but you have given hope to us all!
91
posted on
10/25/2005 8:43:32 AM PDT
by
livius
To: KMAJ2
if you step back, his analysis also applies the the current rift among conservatives.I assume you're speaking of Miers but I don't see much resemblence myself.
92
posted on
10/25/2005 8:44:24 AM PDT
by
edsheppa
To: Pusterfuss
I rank Dr. Sowell right up there with Mark Steyn.Hmmm, that's being very generous to Steyn.
93
posted on
10/25/2005 8:45:36 AM PDT
by
edsheppa
To: wbill
I hope that the Democratic party eventually stops embracing these fringe elements. That is the only place I disagree with you. The Democrat party should go the way of the dinosaur.
I completely agree we need two powerful partiesjust make it Republicans and Libertarians...or some other combination of groups who are currently, at least partially, aligned on the right. Make the "smaller government" part fundamental and the argument becomes "how small." The Democrats constantly pull us left, whereas a different set up would pull us right. A matter of degrees.
I'm picking nits, though. How blessed we are, at this particular point in history, with such, um, special opposition. I'm not sure that we'd be up to a much greater task.
To: Temple Owl
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posted on
10/25/2005 8:48:25 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
To: TChris; backhoe; jimfree; GBA
I used to have lunch a few times a year with a liberal friend/colleague in San Francisco (yeah, I know...). On one of these occasions Dr. Sowell's name came up, and my friend (a photographer by trade, and white) said "Oh,
him. Another black man who's sold out his heritage."
We don't get together much any more...
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posted on
10/25/2005 8:48:27 AM PDT
by
Tenniel
(I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. -- Robert Frost)
To: pollyannaish
If you entire understanding of an alternative philosophy is based on a caricature, you become a caricature yourself and completely unconvincing. It's worse than that, I'm afraid...I believe libs have defined themselves in opposition. If conservatives say yes, libs say no. Suppose you define yourself as a mirror image of a cariacture?
That's why the left continues off the cliff, and can't stop themselves.
97
posted on
10/25/2005 8:49:56 AM PDT
by
gogeo
(Often wrong but seldom in doubt.)
To: RWR8189
Back during the 1930s, in the years leading up to World War II, one of the fashionable self-indulgences of the left in Britain was to argue that the British should disarm "as an example to others" in order to serve the interests of peace.Great piece. Sowell nails it yet again.
98
posted on
10/25/2005 8:54:39 AM PDT
by
T. Buzzard Trueblood
("(I've had) too many wives and taken too many drugs." -Ambassador Joe Wilson)
To: ABG(anybody but Gore)
My best friend is somewhere around Michael Moore in terms of his politics, though more rational so we actually can discuss things.
Most of the cute girls I either hung out with or dated in college were already conservative, or I converted them.
Well, there's the saying that there's only one good reason for a guy to be a feminist....
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posted on
10/25/2005 8:56:03 AM PDT
by
XJarhead
To: gogeo
: D. It's fun to watch them go.
As long as we are learning valuable lessons in the process.
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