I agree. That said, our biggest problem (as a political alternative to socio/communism) is that half of us WANT to go along to get along and are willing to compromise.
And I mean voters calling themselves ‘conservative’, not politicians.
Look through my post history. While you may not agree with my positions in any/all cases, it’s the people I argue with and the rationales they are using that I am talking about.
They WANT compromise. Their positions on the issues are nothing BUT compromise. Yet they bitch about the GOP compromising and support them when the chips are down. Compromise and all.
Until we define who and what we believe and get rid of the enemy within, we go nowhere. Some say that if we do that we reduce our numbers and enter obscurity. My reply to that is “We are there now”. And until we change course, IE dump the people who insist on holding us on the plantation, we will stay there.