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Op ed piece from New York Magazine

Posted: Dec 25, 2012

A peek into the National Review cruise a week after the election. Interesting and telling, in a secret-cam-at-a-donor-dinner kind of way. It leans left, so proceed accordingly.

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Thanks for this great article! - sm

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It struck me that if we go off the cliff and/or suffer a major depression, it would be unnecessary, that the Republicans would contribute to it voluntarily and happily, if it made Obama look bad.

They really DO have a problem with racism, as was mentioned in the article. In fact, it seemed the only time they all were happy was when the black guy started the music.

Again, thanks for sharing this wonderful article.

The statement about the aborigines really got me. - grits

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It was shocking; made me wonder if the woman being quoted had been drinking (in vino veritas and all that)

Having lived my entire life in conservative communities, - I was far from shocked. So many silly

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and regrettable notions. Not long ago someone explained to me sincerely and totally without malice that "Orientals" are "all" such terrible drivers because the shape of their eyes doesn't allow much peripheral vision. :)

These notions go so deep that I suspect very few of us are truly free of assumptions of white supremacy in intelligence, character, enterprise, eye shape, etc. The possibility that "minor" factors like planetary geography, energy, and politics might actually be defining factors in America's ascendancy in the past 150 years and we here the lucky beneficiaries? Come on!

Yeah, shocked was a poor word choice - grits

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I'd naïvely forgotten how people around here, especially the older ones, tend to assume that everyone who looks like them thinks like them.

Actually, I was pretty sure "shocked" was not a normal state - for you, nor naive for that matter. :)

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:) - grits nm

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Thanks, Grits. This was a hoot. Revealing, yes, but these are - the Reagan-era Old Guard. The old GOP didn't

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die, but its Old Guard are definitely fading away--still dangerous but well on their way to irrelevance as they're replaced by a less reactionary and more inclusive conservative party, whatever that calls itself. It'll be interesting to see if its white supremacists, unwilling to desegregate, manage to hold the GOP label as a third, ultraconservative party or pass it on for others to build another era of greatness.

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