[Patrick1]

Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society.

[Secret Agent Man]

Obama is laying the groundwork for a country that will have some underpinnings in Sharia. It will incrementally be changed more so.

[Dead Eye Lane]

"Beck is attacking the enemy at the foundations of their power, their claim to race as a permanent trump card, their claim to the Civil Rights movement as a permanent model to constantly be transforming a perpetually unjust society."

And their perversions of the above.

[snowrip]

Beck is creating positive themes of unity and patriotism and freedom and independence which are above mere political or policy choices, but not irrelevant to them. Political and policy choices rest on a foundation of philosophy, culture, self-image, ideals, religion. Change the foundation, and the rest will flow from that. Defeat the enemy on that plane, and any merely tactical defeat will always be reversible.

This.

[pgkdan]

Great analysis and very interesting comments. I’m book marking this site.

[Morpheus2009]

I would also add, discouraging honest discussion about Islam through political correctness. Christians have had stuff sent out against them all the time, the difference is that we deal with it and either turn the other cheek or we already have our own counter-arguments against what is argued in our case. I think Islam has grown large enough to accept the responsibility of taking some criticism at this point. It’s modest, and honestly a check on Muslims thinking of becoming too extremist.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

That’s a good analysis.

[GonzoGOP]

Restore pride and confidence to your own side, and win the long game.

As Ronald Reagan also said, there are simple solutions, just no easy solutions.

That it the keeper quote. We are finally fighting the progressives in the way that they have been fighting us. The long fight. It started with developing alternative communications channels. That allowed us to get around their strangle hold on the newspapers and the alphabet networks. Now we are attacking the basic premise of their revolution. Changing the language of debate, so that there can in fact be a debate, not just a chanting of liberal canards.

The next step will be to break the liberal monopoly on education. We cannot allow our kids to be brainwashed and expect to win. But they have handed us the tools of their own undoing. They have made their elite university education extremely expensive, and then given the government control over the student loans. We are one election from cutting their much vaunted education system of from the students. Without the loan and grant system most students will have to get educations that actually lead to getting a job. Engineering, science, business and trade schools tend to be a lot less political than the liberal arts.

[davius]

Excellent analysis. History presents the thesis again and again that philosophies or movements built upon negative values must eventually fail. The human animal appears to be a kind of shortcomings bloodhound. If there is a flaw in a system, the human will ferret it out and use it to once more firmly plant their face in the dirt. Our mission is to lay out the steps as best we can with the tools we have at our disposal. And we must do this without regard for the incoherent taunts thrown our way by those with their mouths full of earth. Truth, love, divine inspiration, and the common sense to denounce evil, or at least avoid it will eventually facilitate transcendence.

[Yet_Again]

The author is correct, but for such a strategy to succeed we *must* either reclaim or destroy the public school system. You can’t cure cancer without cutting it out, only treat symptoms of its spread.

[RetroSexual]

This is an interesting analysis, and one I largely agree with.

Of elections, institutions and culture, I think that the most daunting problem is (by far) institutions. As the writer correctly points out, conservatives can dominate at the polls. And the culture that Beck espouses is, after all, our own. We've forgotten them over the years but Faith, Hope and Charity are still the foundations of our culture and beliefs.

But the institutions: that part scares me. With half of the country literally dependent on the federal dole, returning to our basic principles is apt to be violent if it's even possible. Our corrupt system has become so endemic to our nation that I suspect there's no cure.

Consider this: many of us agree that a flat or "fair" tax would be remarkably helpful in returning an honest and equitable revenue stream for needed federal services. Yet I think there's no way it could happen - how many accountants would oppose it? The venal tax code assures that is is virtually impossible to prepare your taxes without the use of an expensive, controlling accountant. So the accounting industry has become a de facto component of our government.

Likewise the health care system. I'm talking pre-Obamacare here. Medicare and Medicaid are essential revenue steams for most doctors and hospitals. Their entire business plans are constructed around that large percentage of their income.

Our military, mandated by the constitution to be the institution which protects us from all enemies both foreign and domestic, has over recent decades devolved into another social program. The lion's share of the fighting is done by elite Special Forces units, while a large percentage of military personnel remain primarily to lap up jobs training programs and generous tuition benefits.

At church? Well if your church wants to be exempt from federal taxes, that institution had better play it's cards very carefully. It's no surprise that so many clergy are progressive ideologues, despite the disastrous implications of that ideology for people of faith.

Our government has successfully entwined itself like a cancer around all of our institutions, both sacred and profane. I fear that the cure could be worse than the disease.

[RatRipper]

Beck is essentially doing something I have long said is the answer to the abortion issue. If us good Christians were out there like we should be winning hearts, minds and souls with our acts of service, kindness and love, the legality of abortion would cease to be a contested issue . . . along with a lot of other problems we have as a result of cultural, moral and spiritual decay.