PrintOctober 10, 2009
Talking politics with strangers
Travel presents an ideal laboratory for viewing the perspective of the public at large. On a recent trip to Washington, D.C. I had a brief conversation with the man sitting next to me on the plane as we flew by the Washington Monument and the beauty of the reflecting pool. The man was an architect for a large firm that does work on buildings and associations of which we are all familiar. I told him I was in town for a conference called Defending the American Dream, and here is where the laboratory was revealed. When we use phrases such as "the American Dream," "preserving the American way of life" and "protecting the future for our children," we must understand that the ideological war has been busy since Rules for Radicals came on the scene. These phrases are being dehydrated of their meaning. Refreshing them is the front line in our effort to right our ship of state, because the man sitting next to me asked, "So what do you believe?" The...(Read Full Article)
