If the people of Kentucky return a Mitch McConnell year after year or, rather, decade after decade, to the United States Senate he must be delivering something they want. The record of Sen. Byrd in West Virginia comes to mind. If cosmic idiot like Eleanor Holmes Norton can be repeatedly reelected from the District of Columbia, she is delivering something those voters want.
So we ask ourselves why is it that conservatism loses these elections, whether the label on the victor is Republican or Democrat? We have to look at our other institutions like the media and the education establishment. And if we want to peel the next layer off the onion, we should look at the epistemology which dominates these institutions coming out of places like The Frankfurt School.
Finally, if these forces were not enough to keep our politics dominated by people like Mitch McConnell, we have the overwhelming force of immigration. As one writer put it, the Democrats could not change our minds so they changed voters.
Until we figure a way to deal with these underlying currents we will always be swimming against the tide.
