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Lakeshark, that is a great post and everything you say is accurate. We thought the new media would provide more balance, instead it made the dinosaur media move even further left. The network news and urban papers have lost audience, but they still dominate and have mostly just stopped pretending to be balanced. The culture is mostly a lost cause now - largely because we didn't contest the left in academia and the entertainment industry. Far too many conservatives have a "take my ball and go home" attitude when they don't get their candidate of choice. You see this here constantly with endless tantrums every time a vote doesn't come down the way people want. And finally, the poison that is socialism has infected the majority of Americans - as we see in Europe, it is nearly impossible to reverse this until there is no more money left to redistribute.

My problem since the election is discovering we have this huge conundrum now: Our country has passed a line where the majority could be convinced by Reagan himself that the values we once stood for are important enough to return to.

If Reagan could even win today, it would probably be by a whisper - and he'd be savaged by our own side for not being conservative enough. Conservatives always believed there was a silent majority of decent, traditional people that would step up and vote the right way when the chips are down - that silent majority probably no longer exists. Worse, the masses that don't turn out, pollsters call them "adults", are probably even MORE supportive of populist left policies that Obama pushes than the actual population that voted. You can see this in any poll these days. "Adults" are far more supportive of Obama than "Likely Voters".

Things look pretty bleak for America right now. The future seems to be with Asia while the West declines. Asia is largely throwing off the shackles of socialism and is growing rapidly. A massive middle class is rising in India, China, etc. It won't be long till the productive people in the US and Europe start fleeing to the better business environments in Asia.

Alas, it will be a long road to change it back, and not an easy one. This is primarily a culture issue, and we have shown we don't know how to fight that way in the long term.

I'm not ready to give up, it's too important, I just don't see an answer yet.

Prayer. Deep thinking. Tactical changes. New leadership from the right people.

We'll see.