Thanks.
Will read it as soon as I finish reading "Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right".
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>Since you are interested in this problem, I recommend to you a book from 1995 by Myron Magnet
The Dream and the Nightmare : the sixties legacy to the underclass>
>He is one of the editors of City Journal
http://www.city-journal.org/ Another of their editors, Theodore Dalrymple, has a number of terrific books from a British perspective, having worked as a doctor in inner-city clinics in Britains industrial cities for years. One of their writers, Heather MacDonald, wrote
The Burden of Bad Ideas which I think is very good.
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>>>>>All I meant was you can't expect anyone who is at all left of center to be very receptive to someone way right of center, any more than you can expect anyone who is at all right of center to be very receptive to someone way left of center. Is that better?
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>>>>Ok, so how do you come to being non-partisan or unifye the two without trying different approaches if the current one is not working?
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>>>You seem to be saying the other guys' approach isn't working and now it's time to try yours. Is that right or not? IAC it doesn't sound much like bipartisanship.
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>>Is inner city kids gaining ground... last 25-30 years? What is happening to them?
>>That's what Newt's video was about.
Work as if you don't need money
Love as if you've never been hurt before
Live as if this is your last day to live
Dance as if no one's watching