Posted on 03/29/2013 12:09:41 PM PDT by Kaslin
This isn't a function of geography, but urbanization. You'll find the same prevailing political attitudes and cultural decay in almost any large urban area of the U.S.
That’s exactly what I’m talking about.
It’s much more comforting to believe in massive fraud on a nationwide scale. But come on. We have to open our eyes at some point.
As Rush says, we have lost this argument. And we lost it, I believe, because conservatives have retreated to the echo chamber, only speaking to those who already agree with us and only listening to people who tell us we want to hear, regardless of its veracity.
We need to accept the world as it really is before we can begin to take back the culture. Nowhere is this more evident than gay marriage. We keep losing the argument as we double down on the same failed tactics. Meanwhile, out in the real world, the American public in general doesn’t have a great problem with gay marriage anymore. They don’t have a great problem with gay adoptions, which are legal now in half the states!
That doesn’t mean change what we believe in, but it does mean changing our message to reach the people we need to reach. That can’t happen if we stick our heads in the sand.
It reminds me of Romney, who actually believed all those stupid “un-skewed” polls. He listened to the echo and hardly bothered in the last weeks of the campaign because he thought he was so far ahead.
How’d that turn out for Romney? How’s our opposition to gay marriage turning out for us?
The argument was never made. That is what is the failed tactic.
Yes, because we spend too much time talking to ourselves and not enough engaged with the world outside.
Worse yet, we’re being bilked by the people who are selling us what we want to hear. People like Morris and Rove who don’t care a whit for our political success but just want our money.
That’s a relatively new phenomenon for our side, and not, I think, a good one.
Indeed — this sort of thing is getting really tiresome. If we cannot agree that words have constant meanings over time, what does that do to our ability to reason and communicate with each other?
And so, I wholly agree with you:
...no matter what a State law may dictate — or the Supreme Court may rule — I will not refer to a same sex union as a marriage thereby implying any moral equivalency.May God's blessings be with you on this holy day, dearest sister in Christ!
Christ is risen! Alleluia!!!
Thank you so very much for your astute analysis and trenchant essay/post!
Because insanity has taken over reason.
It’s because America does whatever their TVs tell them to. It’s that simple. TV has brainwashed our culture to accept homosexuality amongst a long list of other evils.
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