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Summary: Brought to you by organized religion
Review: This book shows just how insane and completely wrong any right-wing attempt at "compassion" is. Books like this make it tough even for a progressive like me to keep an open-minded view on conservative ideals. While the religious obsession in this book is nauseating enough, "Compassionate Conservatism" is also one of the most blatantly racist books I have seen in this decade. Peppered throughout the book are statements along the lines of "for a black person, he really cares about his neighborhood" and numerous similar condescending statements. Olasky seems to convey surprise that anyone other than fundamentalist, evangelical Christian white Republicans have been able to do anything positive, and reports this in "Compassionate Conservatism" as if none of the rest of the world was aware of it either. How disgusting. Overall, reading this poorly-written, meandering propaganda for his weak argument gave me almost the same feeling I got when I first read Rush Limbaugh. I truly though nothing was going to shock me that way again, but this sure did. Nevertheless, I encourage all citizens to read this book. Seeing compassionate conservatism in its truest form will absolutely wipe out any sugar-coated conception the network news ever gave it.
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