Regardless of how close we are to chaos; regardless of how corrupt, bribed, ill-informed, diverse & confused in every sense, the bulk of the population, today, the ultimate question is how do we improve the chances that after chaos--if it is unavoidable--some improvement in what follows is still possible--with or without the Republican Party.
Recognizing that Karl Rove is a force in the wrong direction is still important, if only because his half-witted pseudo-pragmatism diverts efforts from what we yet can do to improve the perceptions of those now "lost" inhabitants of the constituent States in our, at least once, Constitutional Federal Union.
There are ways to improve the perceptions of just about everyone--different ways for different folks--but still ways to improve the perceptions of reality among just about everyone not completely corrupted by entitlements and/or the Pavlovian conditioning that takes place in contemporary education. That concept includes reaching the largely-- but still not completely--corrupted.
Should we not make such an awakening the main focus; that is, doing all that we still can do, to spread understanding of the realities of life that are now outside the apparent ken of most of our political "Leaders?"
William Flax
I agree to some degree with what you say. However, I had to do a lot of soul searching regarding my efforts to persuade liberals to come away from the dark side. The reason? I realized that you could make a cohesive argument that the sky is blue and show your work and even the educated and smart ones would argue that it was red and throw out “raw stats” to support their ridiculous position. After a few years of this with the same people you realize that your efforts could best be maximized by “shaking the dust off your feet and spend your time on others.
That is what I now do. But for me it is on an individual one to one basis. I’ve found the best way to deal with this is to ignore the politics altogether since that really does lead to a dead end. The problem we are having now is not political. the politics is a symptom of another problem. A root problem. It is spiritual.
So I focus on the spiritual. When everything does collapse, hopefully there will be enough left with the right spiritual perspective to build it again as our founding fathers did.
Personally, I strongly believe it won’t matter because we are watching the prelude to the day of the Lord. That is what matters, and what I discuss usually. The politics is a side show.
I think everybody recognizes that.