What is the best conservative reading for a liberal?
Quora knows no borders. But it’s assumed we’re talking about American politics and America’s culture wars.The last thing you want to do is to read books written by the media squawkers such as Savage, Limbaugh, and Ingraham. It’s the saddest thing about America today. With the help of social media flaming idiots both Left and Right have gone from annoying side-show to center stage. This is how we’ve ended up with a second-rate reality show clown in the White House.So who should you read? First on my list would be David Frum. He was educated at Yale and Harvard. He was a speech writer for George W. Bush. He’s definitely a conservative. But he has no problem lashing out at conservatives when he sees fit. He announced he was voting for Hillary in 2016. From a conservative view, he is able to put the 60s -70s social transition and the emergence of the culture wars into perspective. Intelligent. Fair. I recommend the book he wrote in 2000:How We Got Here, David Frum, 2000Next I would recommend these two anti-feminist books written by two intelligent, educated women:Domestic Tranquility: A Brief Against Feminism: F. Carolyn Graglia, 1998Feminist Fantasies, Phyllis-Schlafly, 2003Conservative African-American scholar Thomas Sowell graduated from Harvard magna cum laude; received his masters from Columbia, and his Phd in economics from the University of Chicago. I recommend his most recent book:Discrimination and Disparities: Thomas Sowell, 2018But for a taste of the full array of his ideas I recommend this book:The Thomas Sowell Reader, Thomas Sowell, 2011Conservative Indian-American author Dinesh D’souza has turned into one of the pop culture war flaming idiots i suggested you avoid. But he began as an excellent author. Here are two books from the 90s that are worth reading:Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus: Dinesh D'Souza, 1992The End of Racism, Dinesh D’Souza, 1996Finally, I have to throw in a weird one. I don’t think a person can truly understand America’s culture wars without understanding postmodernism and how it relates to politics. So here is an excellent book that explains the effect of political postmodernism from a conservative point of view:Explaining Postmodernism, Stephen R. C. Hicks, 2004PoMo began as a weapon used by the Left. But now it is being used by the Right —in a disturbing way.So there you go —eight books guaranteed to turn a Left thinking head 180 degrees to the Right, albeit temporarily.
What states are almost guaranteed to vote republican?
Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, The Dakotas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri and Alaska.
If you had a gun to your head and were told to recite one song perfectly to survive, what song would you choose?
I’d probably go with the one that everyone gets tired of before the second verse is over. “We Didn’t Start the Fire”:Harry Truman, Doris Day, red China, Johnny Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe Dimaggio. Joe McCartney, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjon, Brando, “The King and I,” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new Queen. Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye!chorusJoseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc. Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dancron, Dien Bien Phu falls, “Rock Around the Clock.”Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland. Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev. Princess Grace, “Peyton Place”, trouble in the Suez!chorusLittle Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou en-Lai, “Bridge on the River Kwai.” Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Stockwether homicide, children of thalidomide.oh-hoho-ho-hooooooBuddy Holly, “Ben-Hur,” space monkey, mafia, hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go. U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Checker, “Psycho,” Belgians in the Congo!chorusHemingway, Eichmann, “Stranger in a Strange Land,” Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion. “Lawrence of Arabia,” British Beatlemania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson. Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK blown away - what else do I have to say?!chorusBirth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock. Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline, Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan. “Wheel of Fortune,” Sally Ride, heavy metal suicide, foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz. Hypodermics on the shore, China’s under martial law - rock ’n’ roller cola wars, I can’t take it anymore!!!!chorus repeats foreverThen again, this crazed gunman might just shoot me for my choice of song anyway.