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March 21, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Did you mention this book before, or was it someone else? I remember hearing some details a week or so ago about his new book, which sounded downright hilarious to me. Never far from the deep end to start with, Phillips is convinced that people like me really are the end of America…
March 22, 2006 at 7:01 pm
It’s the first I’ve heard of the book, so, no, you didn’t hear about it from me.
And, frankly, I don’t think it’s people like you that frighten him. You know how to think and you can understand, if not agree with, others’ points of views.
It’s one thing for a voter to choose his or her votes and his or her personal stand based on his or her personal convictions; it’s a different thing for a voter or a group of voters (that is, a party) to force their personal convictions on others, not because they are good public policy, but because they are those persons’ personal convictions.
It may seem like a fine line, but it’s a real line.
March 22, 2006 at 9:16 pm
OK, I’ve found it, with the help of Google Desktop. It was that website I keep confusing with yours: Salon.com, and the link is http://www.salon.com/books/review/2006/03/16/phillips/index.html.
Not having read the book, I don’t know if Phillips draws the distinction that you do about convictions. My guess is not. He was a conservative until Christians got involved in conservatism, and then he left, which of course logically makes the Christians the intolerant ones.
Judging from the review, if he really believed half of what he’s predicting, I’d think he’d be headed out of the country. Maybe he is.