Re: *unrelated areas*:
There are no unrelated areas. I have been trying to tell conservatives, including GOP party operatives for years that one way the Dems beat us is that they co-opt every group out there from Lamaze to FFA. There are undeclared political operatives as real members of every group in every community. They make friends, become trusted,ferret out which leftist agendas are going to appeal to each group (GW, animal rights, environmental controls, tax the rich, free child care, medical care, et al)and then work to make sure the members know the position of whichever Democrat candidate from the lowest to the POTUS on that issue. They stand up at every meeting and announce fundraisers and GOTV actions people are encouraged to participate in. They use these memberships to form other ad hoc groups to support other agenda items. They rail on any position advocated by the right, and if they see anyone beginning to think for themselves, they sic a *mentor* on them, pronto, to make sure any information the potential dissenter has come across is demeaned as *conservative rhetoric*.
They also compile the various illegalities committed by anyone in the group. This is used as a last resort or as leverage in the event of a defection.
This is 24/7/365 and it is in addition to their jobs, their families and their recreation. These operatives do work. Many have professional degrees. Many own their own businesses and they can also then use employment as a recruiting tool.
They will run for any office available, at any time. The attitude is that no position is too small to not be of use.
It is a myth that all Democrats are spongers. Many, many are comfortable to wealthy or middle class. They BELIEVE in their cause. They walk their talk. And they make sure they are out there among the folks who are struggling in order to support them and earn their trust.
No doubt, some of them went to Ranger School, as well.
Alot of people go. Not many make it.
I’m not telling you this is going to be easy or an overnight solve. But we’ve run into the same types of operatives at local and family levels overseas as well and we turn the tide by tailoring the message and making it repetetive.
I’m not even saying this is the only or exact way to get the pendulum swinging in the other direction. But consider this:
Special operations forces have been doing this very thing in the third world for over 70 years. an OVERWHELMING majority of retired SOF are Reagan Republicans and have been selling the concepts of conservatism to those who have never comprehended them for decades.
Who better than the RNC to hire to consult in planning for a Hearts and Minds operation in vulnerable blue areas?
This is not a plan to compromise our values to create a larger tent. Its a plan to educate values that will sell themselves to create a larger tent.
RLTW
That is both eye opening and chilling.
I wonder, as you are a self professed reformed lib,
is there any language available to make a lib live up to
what they say they are ‘for’? In that I mean, if they
rant about the blood for oil wars and yet, the last 4 years have been silent, is there a way to force their hand so to say? To flush out the hypocrisy at the heart of it all?
I imagine they will be just as quiet the next 4 years and
it really ticks me off that it’s overlooked.