What finally drove anti-con intellectual Michael ind over the edge? A good case can be made that it was Bob Dole’s use of the third-person singular when talking about himself. Lind, by contrast, likes to use the first-person singular when he’s talking about other people. This could be what created the unbridgeable gap between Lind and his former allies in the troglodyte wing of the Republican party. On page 99 of his recent Up from Conservatism, Lind manages to employ the first-person singular at the astonishing rate of three Is per sentence:
I had never paid much attention to either [Pat] Robertson or the religious right when I picked up a copy of The New World Order in 1991. I expected to be amused by the promised explanation of world events like the Gulf War (during which I held a minor position in the State Department). Instead, I was shocked to discover that Robertson, whom I had assumed was a conventional evangelical like Jerry Falwell, had accused President Bush (for whom I had voted, and for whose administration I had briefly worked) and the Council on Foreign Relations (which I had joined after being nominated by William E Buckley, Jr.) of being part of a Judeo-Masonic-Satanic conspiracy.
Enough about my significance — what do you think about my significance?
