Extra: An Urgent Call to Conservatives
Hello, this is Mel Windham from the "Always Be Better" series, and today I'm doing a cross post with the Econo-Mel. This is a special edition video -- not part of the usual cycle, but never fear; "Always Be Better" will be back in a couple of weeks. Today I'd like to talk to my conservative friends, though all of you are free to listen in. I'm going to start back in high school. Around 1986 ... Milton High School, Building 5, an old dilapidated asbestos-ridden building. Social Studies class. We had many discussions, a few films, and we read Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm . We learned about racism, the rise of Hitler, and other terrible events. And we students talked amongst ourselves, with a little help from the teacher. We wondered: in each of these terrible events, why couldn't people see what was really going on? Why did they allow these bad things to happen? It was very easy for us to agree and resolve that: "We're never going to l...