It won't last if people are not taught.
The schools don't teach the founding principles, nor do the information media, nor do the politicians whose job it is to persuade.
This is why politicians who downplay their beliefs, or talk about "tax cuts" instead of explaining limited government are a problem. They win almost by accident instead of really explaining what it is we believe and why we believe it. They prefer to rely on bumper-sticker slogans rather than really persuading people.
This is a vacuum that has been filled in large part by our talking heads, who are heros in my book, Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Levin, Ingraham, and the others who take time not merely to analyze the news but to explain conservative principles to people. Most of us know these things but sadly most of America at large does not. This is what we have to fix if we are ever to sustain a victory.
Sadly, right now the middle and lower middle-class aren’t yearning for education about our founding principles. They’re yearning for decent jobs, economic stability, affordable health care and meaningful education for their kids. When their hold on American life as they’ve always understood it is deteriorating, they are too filled with anxiety to clearly see the connection between the founding principles and what’s causing the deterioration. They just know it’s wrong and it needs to be stopped. Maybe, if that can happen, they will then be open to learning what those founding principles are and how deviating from them led to their near-brush with poverty.