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A lot of wisdom here.

Take abortion for example. It has a horrific physical and mental toll on the mother. The way we humans are made, the mother will carry guilt her whole life, maybe the only similar life-long burden is having caused another's death through recklessness or spite. Given that, abortion can hardly be considered a "choice", it is a dire consequence that bears disproportionately on the female.

The Fluke-Rosin solution is birth control, as if there's no other physical and emotional fall-outs from sexual coupling, a "Brave New World" scene.

I think the underlying message of this thread is right: we cannot mobilize a majority on the basis of free economic precepts, or for that matter constitutional ones. Too abstract and not manifestly in one's self-interest. We need a core message to which people will feel an emotional attachment. Guns and Bible don't attract enough and can repel those who could be on the side of a modest and decent society.

As you intimate, we need candidates who are comfortable in their own skin, who live their lives in a comfortable way that they don't seem to have the need to preach to others, but rather set an example.

Andrew Breitbart to me exemplified this type of leader. Rather than covering up his wild past, he used it as an object lesson why to change. We need people like he to use the media to project an entertaining picture of conservatism. I think that conservatism has never been shown to such good effect, as when Breitbart, avuncular and grounded, would stand up to and withstand the most shrill, whacked-out, and hostile gatherings of purported responsible liberal organizations, and put them to shame with his composure and self-mastery.

We need menschen such as Breitbart, both male and female.

I agree wholeheartedly, especially about Breitbart. The thing is, our ideology is based on the psychology of our species. I’m spending a huge chunk of my free time now trying to explain this in simple terms (see my profile).

If a candidate understands r/K theory, he has, right in front of him, a simple means to guide him in pointing out the aberrance of the Liberal position, as well as to see the exact reason it is aberrant. Moreover, humans, as overall K-selected psychologies are programmed to respond to this by turning on the aberrant and selfish.

And the thing with Liberal psychologies is, they are all dedicated to social maneuvering. So if you have an easy way to make embracing Liberalism socially demoting (as r/K Theory does innately), then Liberals will retreat from the discourse. It’s how they are programmed.

It’s easy to program the masses to reject Liberalism, if you just understand the reason Conservatism and Liberalism exist in the first place. Liberalism is unnatural for us.