For the most part. I was asking mostly because FR had become so fractured, and was fixated on something that really is only about one battle in a longer war. I didn’t know if FR would hang together through it, or if we could step back and see the bigger picture. Perhaps now that reality is starting to set in, we can move again to the bigger picture.
In a political movement the most useless exercise is to sit and blame everyone else for what happened. You only gain power for a movement by assessing your own mistakes and making sure you don’t repeat them in the future. We’ve had to many years of “going along to get along”, or “take my toys and go home.” We need each other’s voices so we don’t fall in either ditch and keep moving along with a realistic yet purposeful plan.
I don’t think we are where we are because the GOPe, the mainstream media or the Dems screwed us. They did what we should expect them to do. And we did (and are doing) exactly what they expected us to do. The fights we’re having on FR right now are every Obama supporters wet dream. The conservative movement showed its continuing weakness in it’s inability to form coalitions. So we respond to that by sticking our heads in the sand on principle or by acquiescing? Either extreme will keep conservatism on the sidelines. It’s time we grow up and get out the playground taunts and actually do something constructive for the movement.
Give me an example of a fracture.