“Now it affects me” thinking.
I welcome her to reality and equality. Good luck.
“Now it affects me” thinking.
I welcome her to reality and equality. Good luck.
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In case you hadn’t noticed, we are losing the culture wars. “We” meaning those people who have traditional values, who are patriotic, who think that hard work should be rewarded, and who believe that the pinnacle of creation is not one person, or even all of mankind, but God. Yeah, we are losing. So perhaps it would be smarter for those of us that are remaining on this side of the culture wars to take any ally that we can get?
There’s that old saying that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. Well, Bari Weiss has just been mugged, and she is now on our side, whether she realizes it or not (and I think that she does). Rather than just wishing her and people like her “good luck,” maybe we should welcome them, maybe we should work to convert them into active allies, so that maybe we won’t actually lose the culture war. That’s how you build a better future for your children and grandchildren, not by dismissing or having contempt for those who realized what you and I did, just later on. We can’t afford, as a society, to just casually throw these people away because they were once our opponents.
Remember, Ronald Reagan used to be a Democrat. Thomas Sowell used to be a pretty radically liberal individual. Both of them saw the light, saw where liberalism was headed, and they became two of the brightest stars on our side of the equation. Their wisdom and their persuasiveness helped to make this country a better place. We dare not throw away the next Reagan or Sowell.