First rule, never admit blame or fault, even if you’re wrong abd caught dead-to-rights. Deny, deny, deny. Point the finger at the other guy.
Look at how many screw-ups there were in the Obama campaign. Had a Republican even made *one* of those errors, it would’ve been the election. How many have been caught stealing, cheating or lying and been voted back into office?
They’re Democrats! It’s different!
Well, now it’s different for Republicans as well.
The other thing they have going for them is *patience*. They’re willing to spend generations laying the groundwork. We sit back on our laurels, confident that common sense and reason will always prevail.
Sadly, they have a 50 year head-start on us. It might take us another 50 years to turn the tide.
Focus on Academia, Media and Law. We need to get every young conservative into those three areas ASAP.
In a nihilistic and extremely selfish youth culture that wanders about aimlessly seeking its own pleasure and building its own meaning for life - now augmented by the advent of virtual existence via online gaming and the web - it might be wise to look above politics to the metaphysical, the absolute. One absolute to them: you don't see it, but you are going to die some day. No matter what you believe. Another one is moral absolutes: everyone, without exception, has a built-in concept of justice and fairness. It's inexplicable, yet, like life and death, its reality cannot be denied. How do you account for that?
I wonder how the youth of today would be affected by such penetrating questions. I'm still fairly young myself, but have great difficulty relating to this hyper-immersed post-modern group. Historically, it was the church that brought out these questions - the catechism, for example. With that so watered down as to be rendered ineffective - where do they go? Virtual worlds they create, and in which they seek the desire common to fallen man: to become their own little gods and goddesses. It's in you and me too, BTW, so as to be clear I am not so much pointing a finger from us to them as acknowledging a reality of the human condition that is not finding expression in our youth.
Sorry for the tome, Marie, these are passionate issues on my side.