>>>Excellent! We need visibility in academia. A hard-nosed conservative collegiate alliance is in order. The universities in America need a shake-up. Conservative educators need to get into the media responding to the Left’s agenda and belief structure. It would be great to start a nationwide conservative academic movement. Now is our time! Any ideas on how we can implement it?<<<
I’m not sure that visibility is the order of the day.
The success of the Gramsciian model is stealth, not confrontation. In the left’s desire to subvert Western cultural values and replace those values with socialist thinking, they made it clear that the first objective was placing themselves in positions of authority and communication, which can’t be done in an overt and aggressive manner. The left often uses proxies in place of their own motives - “It’s for the children” or “I just want to make the world a better place.”
In fact, we know what happens to teachers and administrators who are stridently conservative in academia, including pies in the face at symposiums.
The left has been working on their project of subversion for decades. What they don’t realize is that their tactics are simply that - tactics. Tactics don’t have an ideology. It has taken years for the left to essentially grab control of communication and education - and it will probably take decades of slow, steady, silent work to undermine what they’ve done.
In the meantime, I encourage you to read Saul Alinsky. I did when I was a young man. Again, he offers tactics. Like many leftists, he’s under the impression that his intellect and superior way of thinking means that once he and his friends are in power, that’s the end of it. He should have read his Hegel more closely. In fact, Rush and Beck and Savage all utilize forms of Alinsky-style tactics against the left to great benefit. The same is true here. And never pass up the opportunity to ridicule the left - because, as Alinsky says, ridicule is impossible to defend against. And use the values of the opposition against them - for instance, we had a counselor who didn’t want a Christmas tree at the school. Our response was that he needed to be more tolerant of the diverse beliefs of students and teachers. I guess that’s a two-for-one shot.
There’s one advantage we have over the left. We have faith. It carries us through the hard times and keeps us secure. All they have is a desire for power. Compared to faith, it’s a puny thing.
So I’m not joining the club. But I am a little member of the fifth column deep behind enemy lines, and, as the left likes to say, “I’m changing the world one child at a time.” LOL