Posted on 01/18/2023 5:18:50 PM PST by Twotone
American conservatives on the Internet are abuzz with the recent interview given to Glenn Beck by Richard Dreyfuss, star of Jaws, Mr Holland's Opus, American Graffiti and many more. Mr Dreyfuss has given up acting to save his country:
.@RichardDreyfuss tells me he gave up acting "ONLY for something I loved as much, which was saving my country...It infuriates me that people don't understand what this place means."
SteynOnline regulars will not be surprised by this development. Mark and Mr Dreyfuss have met only once, very briefly, two decades back at the memorial tribute in Montreal to their mutual friend Mordecai Richler. But seven years ago it emerged that the actor was one of many who had read Steyn's bestselling book. As Mr Dreyfuss put it in a three-part theopolitical dialogue with Susannah Black:
Mark Steyn, a writer with an irritating case of the smart-alecs, has written a book I urge you read called America Alone. Just the first few chapters are a geo-political wake-up call, and he is not someone I agree with very much. But he quotes bin Laden: "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse." And he quotes Donald Rumsfeld: "If we know anything it is that weakness is provocative." We are on a clock we don't see or comprehend. We will not survive this century unless civic virtue is revived. We can discuss its origins all day—if we have the right to speak at all, and aren't dead under jihad.
Seven years after that observation, "the right to speak at all" is increasingly imperiled, in ever more areas - even for those as celebrated as J K Rowling, and even in Richard Dreyfuss's own field, the arts.
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One question Richard, who did you vote for?
Interview here:
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2023/01/16/richard-dreyfuss-tells-an-agreeable-glenn-beck-why-he-gave-up-acting/
At this point I don’t care and will accept any rallier. We need them, badly.
It would appear Mr. Dreyfuss may really understands the remarkable uniqueness of the American political order and that bestows unalienable rights on the citizens and restricts the powers of the state instead of the other way around. If so, he understands a great truth which half or more of American citizens don’t.
You mean in your case everyone except Trump.
So you are a Trump supporter? Did I make a mistake?
Yes jackass you did.
Ok, I’m sorry.
I hope Steyn is soon cleared to fly back to the US. Let him recover at home.
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So Steyn has recovered enough to continue writing? That’s good news.
Dreyfuss has spoken out quite a bit about the importance of preserving traditional American values, and crusaded for the return of Civics classes in schools. He’s one of the good, and very smart, guys.
Geez you two, your not on Twitter, watch the language.
Great as always from Mark Steyn.
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