David Mamet Conservative Conversion

David Mamet Conservative Conversion — David Mamet, revered playwright and screenwriter whose works include American Buffalo, The Verdict, Wag The Dog, and Glengarry Glen Ross, and whose work Speed -the-Plow was called a “tone poem” in the old media in the days when it ruled, has declared himself a conservative.

Mamet promotes his just released book, “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture,”  by saying “My interest in politics began when I noticed that I acted differently than I spoke, that I had seen ‘the government’ commit sixty years of fairly unrelieved and catastrophic error nationally and internationally, that I not only hated every wasted hard-earned cent I spent in taxes, but the trauma and misery they produced…”

He has shown himself to be a disciple of the brilliant Milton Friedman and Thomas Sowell, and a defender of Sarah Palin.

The hearts of the passionate and courageous 20-somethings do sometimes  evolve to be guided by the wise brains of the 50-somethings and this appears to be what has happened in Mamet’s case.

But is Mamet now a “conservative”? Words are roundly abused for political machinations. Liberals once  advocated a society with minimal government, not speech codes, racial set asides and taxpayer funded abortions. Liberals were once the ones who defended the “little guy” and not pharmaceutical companies or salmon.

And conservatives? Once they were the ones who demanded a king and a state church. Is that what they want now? Because they want to allow Bible readings in schools? It is cruelly ironic to note that it is the “conservatives” who are the ones fighting a book banning.

Further it should be noted that teaching that our rights are God-given i.e. “endowed by our Creator” gives not only permission but obligation to oppose those in authority when they violate those rights.

It is the exact opposite of seeking a king and state church.

Unlike those who want to give government agencies ever more arbitrary and increasing power.

It’s time to scrap the labels “conservative” and “liberal”. The new ones should be “Freedom and Prosperity” and “Regulation and Rationing”.

The Kennedy Democrat is the same as the Reagan Republican who is the same as the Tea Partyer.

One suspects that Mamet’s values haven’t changed merely that he willed
himself to pull back the curtain and look at the man behind it.

Anyway, welcome aboard David Mamet.

David Mamet Conservative Conversion

 

David Mamet Conservative Conversion

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