"But with the Bush administration, pro-lifers feel there's a real opportunity to stop the U.S. government from promoting abortion and sex education and population control in the Third World.""
What an unfortunate linkage - opposing population control and sex education in the third world.
We need to seperate abortion i.e. killing a human from education and family planning. We need to make the point that abortion is not a legitimate family planning tool - arguing against family planning just makes us look out of touch with reality and also hurts humanity.
So, what exactly is beneficial about keeping people ignorant and without any ability to limit the size of their families?
For years, the International Left has worked together to promote its goals. The idea of an International Right has always been trickier, both because there are more variations of philosophy on the right and because right wing groups are by nature more nationalistic and more focused on their own nations. But there is enough common cultural ground for our side to link up with like-minded activists in other countries, if for no other reason than to combat the left. It would be great to see this trend start to grow so that the left has to watch its back in places like the Philippines and Colombia.
This is another reminder of how much things have improved since the 90s. I woke up this morning thinking of how well the Alito hearings went, and how the second amendment has largely been restored in the U.S., and I felt reinvigorated. Like many conservatives, I've enjoyed bitching for the last year or two because things aren't moving as quickly as I would like, republicans are wishy-washy etc. For me I believe it is time to recommit myself to the nuts and bolt work of helping to win elections, and writing letters to the editor, the grass root efforts that helped bring about the conservative revolution.I think its time for rank and file cons. to role up their sleeves and get back to the trenches.