Psychologist teaches mainstream Americans how to beat liberals at their own game

For Dr. Timothy Daughtry, a clinical psychologist who has co-authored a book for mainstream Americans, too many citizens think they have done their civic duty if they show up to vote and return to their normal lives.

To Daughtry, they are “like summer tourists in politics,” whereas the progressives are like the “locals.”

“We’ve got to get active now or we are going to lose this republic,” Daughtry says. The danger is, he says, that “our country is being taken away from us right under our very noses.”

He believes that a historic debate is being played out about whether Americans are citizens or subjects of their government.

Conservatives are on defense too much to succeed, he thinks, but also believes that help is on the way as citizens are waking up to the problems caused by both political parties.

“We have to make the left start defending socialism instead of us defending liberty,” Daughtry said.

Mainstream America started waking up when Republicans and Democrats in Washington embracing bailouts, which he says “fundamentally struck Americans as wrong.”

Then, the widespread unpopularity of Obamacare became surprisingly irrelevant to a government that “rammed it through anyway.” Educational textbooks depicting American history through a distorted lens of progressive ideology that glorifies redistribution is another “red flag” waking up parents, Daughtry believes.

Losing cultural institutions to the left, like the media, education and entertainment, is far more significant, says Daughtry, than the harm done by the U.S. government. Daughtry also discusses how to respond to being called an extremist or a racist in this two-part interview.

He thinks conservatives should not accept the left’s premises, since the left has done incalculable damage to the black community with their policies and programs.

The biggest mistake that I have see conservatives makes, over the years, is to think we can win solely from the top down.

This is very true. . and I have seen the frustration as Tea Party agendas seem to gravitate toward lobbying efforts, twisting arms of politicians or helping the campaigns of Tea Party friendly candidates. . .only to be confronted again and again with the reality that once someone is elected they seem to taper off in their Tea Party enthusiasm.

The nature of the problem is this. . .elected officials are not our "leaders," they are "representatives" of the people. Look at how many elected officials are winning their race by a slim percentage. However, slim margins only effect those that see themselves as "representatives of the people." Therefore, they do not effect Democrats. . who only see themselves as experts over the helpless masses. Also, look how many Americans simply are not even interested enough to go vote. This is our problem. . .we the people. . .are divided between those who seek representatives and those who want experts (and those who could care less either way).

In the 2012 Presidential election, I worked the local polls on election day. I spent nearly a whole day next to Democrat Party grassroots supporters. I can't tell you how, on the one hand, they were so nice. . and, on the other, they were so stunningly sick in the head and uninformed. This is the problem. . .good and noble people are being completely duped by evil ideologues who seek nothing less than the destruction of our founding principles. . which are essential for liberty.

We need to reach these people. . we need to swing a percentage toward conservatism. . we need to send representatives to Washington that are empowered by 60% of the voting public who will stand firm behind their representative, even in the face of a condescending media and popular culture. THEN, things will change.

We have to reach out beyond the choir. We have to inspire the human heart with the living ideals that stand at the root of our nation's birth. We have to expose and eradicate all the tenticles of Progressive ideology and its detrimental effects on our free society. It means we have to take the truth and go into the enemy camp and change hearts and minds. I've experienced it being done and I know it works, but I've also seen how people feel reluctant or not confident to step into that arena. It is easier to pretend we are doing something by inviting a Trevor Loudon to come speak at the next Tea Party meeting about "The Enemy Within".. that is, to tell us what we already know or could learn by perusing freerepublic.com for 5 minutes.

I agree completely. Don’t let the libs get away with the “presumptive” question (Have you stopped beating your wife?) or the false dichotomy (Would you prefer Obamacare or wholesale deaths of uninsured?)

Challenge their most basic assumptions: “diversity is good.” (Why?) “It takes a village.” (No, it doesn’t.) “This country was founded on a separation of church and state.” (No, it wasn’t.) “Slavery was wrong.” (No, it was a perfectly legitimate institution in its time.) “The US is an imperialist power.”(Really? How many colonies do we have? How much territory have we acquired through war?

Gore their sacred cows. Knock over their straw men. Disprove their presumptuous axioms.

. . . to single out the United States as the greatest offender of human dignity because of its inherited use of slaves is intellectually and historically dishonest.

I never singled out the United States as the 'greatest offender of human dignity.' The majority of African slaves during the slave trade never came to North America.

All I said is that human slavery was, is, and always be, morally reprehensible.

Do you agree with that?

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