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We have to walk and chew gum at the same time.

In addition to politics, we have to remake the culture. Doing that requires that we reallocate the time wasted on television, etc, and put it into changing our families, churches, communities, and local institutions.

Moreover, nothing will improve if we don’t resolve to give up the middle class welfare entitlement known as “free public education”. In fact, without our children the left would collapse because giving them our children provides cashflow (every child in the public schools is a revenue unit) and impressionable minds to warp with leftist ideology.

The problem is that principled politics is relatively easy. Changing the culture by rescuing our children, changing spending and viewing patterns, and the many other things that would transform the country virtually overnight require real effort. Remaking the culture involves doing things that we can do without asking anyone else’s permission and without anyone else’s approval. That is the big opportunity. But too many of us are all for “conservatism” as long as we don’t really have to reorder our lives.

This post isn’t aimed at you - I’m just taking this opportunity to vent.

In fact, without our children the left would collapse because giving them our children provides cashflow (every child in the public schools is a revenue unit) and impressionable minds to warp with leftist ideology.

It's more than that. Liberal parents have fewer children on average. Without the children of non-liberals locked into the public schools, their political ideas would literally die-out in a couple of generations. This is why amnesty for illegal immigrants is the current cause celeb amoung libs.

Changing the culture by rescuing our children, changing spending and viewing patterns, and the many other things that would transform the country virtually overnight require real effort. Remaking the culture involves doing things that we can do without asking anyone else’s permission and without anyone else’s approval. That is the big opportunity. But too many of us are all for “conservatism” as long as we don’t really have to reorder our lives.

Agreed. And it isn't enough to rescue our own children. We should be doing that anyway. No, we have to reach out to the brainwashed children of Dims. In addition to school, we need to use the media to our own advantage. Disney and Nickelodeon networks have lots of kids programing. Work on getting our messages out there first because a majority of Lib parents just plop their kids down in front of the electronic babysitter.

...This post isn’t aimed at you - I’m just taking this opportunity to vent.

I knew that :)

But too many of us are all for “conservatism” as long as we don’t really have to reorder our lives.

Yep. Whatever “conservatism” is now.

Was it Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell who said "it all depends on whose ox is being gored" when talking about giving up things or getting things from the government?

Perhaps it was neither one.