Break away and then what?
“And then what?” A profound question.
There has to be pin-point financial and political support at state, county and town level. Both parties are corrupt at the federal level. A third party is hamstrung by the system.
I don’t care if you go Democrat or Republican. Such labels are out of date. It’s Conservative vs. Liberals.
“Break away and then what?”
Drift away and disappear. Until conservatives get off their fat behinds and organize themselves into even a mediocre political force, that movement continues to become irrelevant. I’m anxiously awaiting the time when I see conservatives get organized enough to send a half-dozen of themselves to attend local village board meetings across the country to object to high property taxes. Maybe they can even drag themselves to school board meetings and mildly dissaprove that there’s too many commies and perverts in public schools.
It certainly could happen, and in time for the next presidential election, depending upon a variety of unpredictable events. This would take determination and persistence in the face of hammering flack.
The only measure of success for conservatives is the decibel-level of our opposition. Rather than avoiding such a libelous stew of discomfort, we will need to embrace it as the very measure of our effectiveness, the way of knowing we are over the target.
And the writer is correct that allowing our opposition to determine both the language and rules of debate is foolish. We must become willing to frighten the "independents" with the level of acrimonious debate that the only ones left to determine an election's outcome are conservatives and liberals. Our base is larger than theirs.