John Wayne once said, you can tell people anything you want, as long as you tell them in a story. I once heard a jihadist talk about how people in his movement actually picture themselves in the role of Luke Skywalker fighting against the empire. For them, that story becomes a metaphor for their own srtuggle, and they use it to imagine their own heroism against the faceless drone armies of the infidels (that would be us).
So don’t underestimate the power of “story.”. A good story can accomplish amazing things in getting large numbers of people to understand and act on the moral questions confronting them. A good story is something like a simulator, a practice run for the real thing. The way you are trained to respond to a given situation is what you will do on game day, when the real thing goes down.
In that respect, rehearsal for resistance to tyranny, conservatives, IMHO, have not done nearly enough. We sit here in our “districts” and look to our elected leadership to do all the heavy lifting for us. But they are too much like us, and they are also hoping someone else will step up and take the big risks. If only we could, through instruction in godliness, through the telling of great stories, or by any other legitimate means, teach ourselves to be that person willing to put it all on the the line to do what is right, what an unsolvable problem our would-be overlords would face.