I wish for my family and friends to read this essay by Bill Whittle. (Read Part II here.) I hope that it will help them to understand my vote. Excerpt:
We like to say that the world changed that day. What a ridiculous, self-centered thought. The world didn’t change. Our illusions about the world changed. The scales had (mostly) fallen from my eyes in the years leading up to that morning. But many, many conservatives (as I define myself) were born precisely at 9:17 am EDT, when United 175 flew past the burning North Tower – an accident? – and exploded through the second, on the morning of September the 11th, 2001.
I only wish that I could say things in such a powerful fashion. And if you read the essay, you might even laugh from time to time.
[Oscar Jr. asks his family and friends to read the essay, too.]
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