Really, for conservatives, our goal should be long term. It's high time we started getting back into academia and journalism to right this wrong. I think it's the only way to lay claim to a cultural shift of our own. I personally see many young people who seem far more conservative then prior generations, but I think for their effectiveness to be felt, unfortunately many boomers are going to have to age out of the game and probably even a lot of Xers too. I don't think it's lost, but I think it's going to be a couple generations out until the kids behind can SEE the results and we raise a generation more thoughtful and introspective then the last.
Yep, all of that is absolutely true. You have to fix the societal problem before anything else will work. I think the one thing that has frustrated the Hell out of me for the past 15 years or so have been the "fiscal conservatives" that seem to have held sway over what conservatives should put out as a message. They told us that we can't win on social issues, concentrate on money instead, and abandon any type of societal morality to the left. Well, that's been done, and it got us nowhere.
Anyone who tries to tell me that society and finance are separate issues is a damned fool and one not worth listening to. By abandoning society to the left, we have allowed societal rot which will now affect us all, left and right, in the financial arena. You cannot fix money when morality is not a factor - one does affect the other in usually disproportionate manners.
Retaking our communities (city council, school board, etc) is where it all starts but retaking academia is where it matters most. When the colleges quit cranking out propaganda spewing zombies, we might start to see a turnaround in what passes for "thought" in this country. Until then, we're just pissing in the wind.
ETA: Right on cue
Rubio makes his Iowa debut as possible ‘future’ of the Republican Party
But only 11 days after voters went to the polls and Republicans came up short, Rubio was speaking to a crowd that had trained its sights squarely on 2016.
In his speech, Rubio weaved together the personal and the economic. He discussed the importance of a stable family life to a stable economy, and how critical the success of the middle class is not just to the country’s financial situation, but also to its place in the world. American exceptionalism, Rubio said, is important to every nation, not just the United States.
“The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer; it’s by making poor people richer,†Rubio said.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/18/rubio-makes-his-iowa-debut-as-possible-future-of-the-republican-party/Now, I have neither the time nor inclination to listen to anything he has to say about "common sense immigration reform", but the above bolded is what will win. Reagan knew it, we know it, that is the message that will win from now on out. The above bolded in red is the exact type of language that needs to be used: People, not groups. It seems to me that instead of looking to gather a group, it has been demonstrated that changing individuals within a group will more likely affect the group as a whole. The co-op of the democrat party by the marxists is
the prime example of how that works.
