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One thing I see as a problem for conservatives is that our instinctive aversion to media folks keeps us from trying to talk to them. Yes they are ideologues, and yes they see themselves as part of the DNC, but we need to be making an effort to get to know media people, especially the younger ones who aren’t as set in their ways, and show them over and over and over that there is another point of view on many of their stories.

Most in the media don’t even know that there is another approach, and when you point it out some of them will give it a moments consideration. You have to remember that those on the left call them ALL THE TIME telling them what the story is - they take them for lunch, ask about the kids, treat them as friends. I think we sometimes get very caught up in thinking of them as the enemy and forget that part of the Art of War IS knowing your enemy.

There are a lot of former liberals out there who, for whatever reason, ended up having to spend some time around conservatives and found out that we aren’t what the stereotype says we are. We don’t hate the poor, we don’t believe in starving old people, and we aren’t the ones who want to tell them how to live their lives.

We need to make an effort to get to know the media people - especially at the local level since that’s where the national people come from.

Kay,

There is nothing wrong with trying to convert the opposition to your way of thinking. It may work. It is apparently working in a way in Iraq.

But try to get your mind around the fact that for many on the Left, we are the enemy of their vision of utopia.

If it were not for the Right, all children would be well fed, well housed, would have access to superb free health care; our roads would be free of rush hour traffic, our world would be conflict free, energy would be free, plentiful and would not have any byproducts.

Furthermore there would be no rich or poor; everyone would have an abundance of everything, and everyone would work for the common good out of altruism for humanity. Faith in a higher being would end, replaced by faith in the infinite perfectibility of mankind.

These are their ideals. They are the ideals of virtually every Utopian who was ever born. It requires an basic change in the psyche of the Liberal; an acknowledgment that Man is a fallen creature. In short, it requires an understanding of man in a Calvinistic sense to change this position.

This is their ideology. Democrats in political office are simply their representatives with political power.