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To: Iowa Granny; Molly Pitcher; illstillbe; tillacum; jtill; Peach; alwaysconservative
You may also want to take a look at this paper, Why There Is A Culture War, in which the theory of Antonio Gramsci is laid out to be the foundation for today's lefties: The personal IS political; Morality based on groups; and 'organic intellectual reeducation' through the infiltration of institutions that pass on societal values (i.e. tearing down and re-building educational institutions and even/especially churches)...

Also interesting in the paper is what the author calls the rise of 'Toquevillianism' to counter the Gramscian world-view, the 'Trinity of American Exceptionalism', to wit:

(1) dynamism (support for equality of individual opportunity, entrepreneurship, and economic progress);
(2) religiosity (emphasis on character development, mores, and voluntary cultural associations) that works to contain the excessive individual egoism that dynamism sometimes fosters; and
(3) patriotism (love of country, self-government, and support for constitutional limits).

...all three of which make America unique in its march to modernity, and totally at odds with the politically correct crowd... ;-))
102 posted on 01/28/2007 6:32:05 AM PST by Bitwhacker
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To: Bitwhacker

Thank you VERY MUCH.

I'm embarking on a personal project. We can't win back the hearts and minds of those in the middle unless we understand 'how' they've been swayed into the Liberal Camp.

I am giving SERIOUS consideration to retiring from my current 'thing' and developing a grassroots effort to re-educate those in the middle. *Sort of a Conservative Gray Panther movement"

If you aren't gray yet, Lady Clariol can offer some help.


104 posted on 01/28/2007 7:15:19 AM PST by Iowa Granny
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To: Bitwhacker

Thanks for the ping, and bump for later reading!


154 posted on 01/29/2007 4:41:03 AM PST by alwaysconservative (When you get death threats from the right, at least they're spelled correctly--Dennis Miller)
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