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My personal suggestion on how to “use” FR is to literally “use” it as a resource, and not try to change it.

I am personally doing that by daily posting (at least 3 times a day) links to FR posts that I think are particularly good or particularly well written or particularly to-the-point on a specific issue. (Never my own posts, only posts of others.)

And where do I post links to these “great” (in my opinion) FR posts?

I tweet them to one of these twitter accounts:

@seanspicer
@Trump
@KellyannePolls
@mike_pence
@TeamTrump
@realDonaldTrump

I am trying to encourage Trump and his team to read FR.

As to the idea of “preaching to the choir”... well, I consider this place a meeting of like minds. I wouldn’t want that to change. And my reading of how Jim R is running this site is that he doesn’t want that to change either.

Read the front page of the site before thinking of ways to change the site.

This IS a conservative forum. Period. End of story. It is not a Safe Place for Snowflakes. Never has been. Never will be.

If someone really wants to go out into the world and try to convert leftists, I’m all for that. But FR is not the place for that. FR is the place for conservatives to hone ideas. That is not preaching to the choir. That is creating a hot-house of ideas.

Ideas that can be shared out to any other alternative forum you choose. In my case, I am sharing FR on twitter to Trump accounts.

I think it’s possible that Donald Trump won’t even bother with FR.

He’s already got a vision and its implementation seems to be getting him applause in most cases.

He has better than a skilled amateur peanut gallery with a distinct rightward drift. He has people with little or no vested interest in a tendentious political attitude.

Now maybe ideas will spin from FR to others whom in turn will pass on ideas that figure in Donald Trump’s calculations.

I’m saying what you’re saying, to take the conservative ideas here out to other venues. If you’re linking articles posted on FR to Trump, et al, great.
I’m saying we should do that, and more.
I send the links to ordinary people, too, to fence-sitters who I think are open minded enough to consider them. And I go out there on lefty venues (I’ll never tell which ones) and challenge them.
No, I’m not suggesting the wacko commie crowd be invited to FR to “discuss” (shout us down) nor am I suggesting FR should change to appease the left.
Nothing I am saying should be construed to mean surrender. Evil needs to be stomped.
I’m just suggesting we be more active and proactive in the real world, not just talk to people we already agree with.
Right now is a tremendous opportunity. I believe a lot of people who identify with the Democrats, and even with the far left, are seeing their true colors right now and thinking, wait, do these jerks really represent me? We can use that opportunity, or we can sit here hoping Trump reads FR and he’ll be inspired to fix everything for us, and in the process, totally blow it.