[NakedRampage]

Thanks you.

You made reference to the younger generation holding politicians to account -- unfortunately, I've been suprised by how liberal my fellow students are. Even a lot of the one's that THINK they're conservative tend towards being pretty liberal. Indifferent on the queerness issue, shruggish on borders and drugs, and Brady bill-ish on guns.

[BlackElk]

Your contemporaries will likely move rightward on social issues as they marry and have children and on drug issues likewise. The border issues will fade. They have already faded along with the numbers crossing the border. I cannot imagine young people supporting gun control, at least not young men. Every generation has liberals who grow up as they age and turn rightward. Except for Bill Buckley, all or substantially all of National Review's ten or so original editors (Willmoore Kendall, James Burnham, Frank Meyer, Max Eastman, Will Herberg, Elsie Meyer, John Chamberlain and others) were ex-communists who turned to freedom after World War II. If they could turn, so can your contemporaries.

As to holding Newt's feet to the fire, all politicians are in need of movement discipline. My generation fought Nixon on the China trip and wage and price controls. We forced an end to the military draft which has been out of existence for nearly forty years now. We fought Rockefeller, Romney the Brainwashed Elder, William Scranton, Gerald Ford and anyone ho opposed Ronaldus Maximus. Most of your generation's responsibilities lie in the future. Learn, commit and discipline yourselves, read and organize. You lack a Bill Buckley so far and you lack a Ronald Reagan. The bad news is that there will never be another of either. The good news is that unexpected heroes will arise among you with unanticipated qualities of leadership. If ever you should be totally satisfied at any political status quo, check your premises and redouble your efforts. As Lenin used to say, two steps forward, one step back. His experiment is no longer with us but he was rather successful for a time. Read and utilize the tactics of Saul Alinsky (Rules for Radicals, Reveille for Radicals) against his disciples. Above all, make the public laugh at his disciples. It is the one thing they simply cannot stand.

Know your enemies: Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, William Ayres, Bernardine Doehrn, Herbert Marcuse, Saul Alinsky, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn.

Know your friends: Traditional Roman Catholicism or Eastern Orthodoxy or Evangelical Christianity or Chassidic Orthodox Judaism can be of great help.

What is your major? What is your college or university?