[neverdem]

THEY get up in our faces while we continue to turn the other cheek. We’ll sure as the day is long lose this country by disngagement.

Exactly. This don't discuss politics in public has left the left in charge of of the discussion.

[mrsmel]

This is true, and so is another point that he made-that conservatives, as the advocates of small government and more individual liberty, necessarily leave a vacuum in government, especially in the twentieth and now twenty-first centuries, that liberals and socialists are more than happy to fill. As they have done, in government, in academia, in media (the last two being almost almost wings of liberal/socialist government these days). How do we as conservatives resolve this? How do we stay true to our principles of limited intrusion of government in any form-parental rights, etc-and not leave the vacuum for the socialists to fill, as expanding government and collectivism is their agenda?