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Week of March 1, 2009 - March 7, 2009

How Can One Talk To A Conservative?

March 7, 2009, 9:02AM

How can one talk sensibly with people convinced aliens are coming to rescue us? Or that aliens are planning to exterminate us? How can one talk to people like the author of "How Can Iceland Become The World's Richest Nation?", Hannes Holmsteinn Gissurarson, who says it's not his fault for being too successful but the fault of left-wing intellectuals who should have provided a counter-view?

How can one talk to someone like Charles Krauthammer, who says:

"The markets' recent precipitous decline is a reaction not just to the absence of any plausible bank rescue plan, but also to the suspicion that Obama sees the continuing financial crisis as usefully creating the psychological conditions -- the sense of crisis bordering on fear-itself panic -- for enacting his 'big-bang' agenda to federalize and/or socialize health care, education and energy, the commanding heights of post-industrial society."

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