We can win, decisively win, debates that we have not even been having, because so many on our side stop to temporize with the absurdity, being promoted by a complex of quacks in Academia & the Media.
The approach urged in the article will work to increase our base. [Obama Or America--Clarity On Irreconcilable Differences]
When Democrats turn the whole country into Detroit, people will wake up.
Secondly, we need to focus our policy attacks on those who actually advocate things which conflict philosophically with the fundamental principles of our Constitutional Republic. If you really understand those principles, you will also understand why those principles gave America her greatest pace of economic growth. Grounded in actual experience, the Founders' philosophy grew out of a real understanding of the human potential; as opposed to the philosophy of every Leftist movement, where the advocacy is driven by personal wish lists, never by what actually works.
I know how discouraged most of us are, today. It is not a feeling we can ever be content with. We must all Pray, reflect, regroup & return to action.
But in civilian concerns, coordinating large numbers may be totally counter-productive--the very opposite of cost-effective problem solving. There is an inherent flaw in a distant bureaucracy's intrusion into unique, intimate & immediate local problems. Worse, yet, such intrusion can only work against the continuity of local traditions & the continuity of the idiosyncratic norms of diverse communities. It is an dangerous step towards the monolithic thought control that distinguished the great totalitarian powers of the 20th Century. It is always a limitation on the freedom of action. But to continue the original point, it is seldom cost effective for the supposed purpose.
This is followed by discussion of Federal involvement in local education & health care.
This is relevant to many of the other articles being posted on the election, today.
I will be posting a followup to this, next week.