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To: Olog-hai

One of the books that changed my life.


33 posted on 06/02/2018 8:15:40 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Publius

If more people read it, they’d be less surprised by the GOP-e’s behavior over the decades.


36 posted on 06/02/2018 8:34:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Publius
I was stunned by Goldwater's prescience in Conscience of a Conservative.

He correctly predicted the world we live in today.

He believed strongly in Civil Rights, but of the MLK content of one's character variety.

He thought that it should never have been a Federal program forced down the throats at gunpoint issue.

He predicted correctly that it would lead to Affirmative Action, quotas, set-asides, etc, that would forever taint true black American achievements.

He truly believed in individual rights, not "group rights" which he warned against.

He KNEW it would eventually tear Americans apart.

The latter part of the book was focused on the Soviet Union and communism, and this is the only part of the book that hasn't aged well.

He couldn't conceive of a collapse of the Soviet Union, but who in 1964 could have seen that coming?

I'd say that the book should be required reading.

Changed my thinking completely, and he does it in a very accessible way.

39 posted on 06/02/2018 9:14:48 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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