Spot on and the other side is that we need to dominate the thoughtspace. You do that in the media via conservative populism. You have to focus on an issue and satirize the other side’s position to death. You have to make anyone with an ounce of intelligence embarrassed to hold that position.
We’re winning and I don’t know why FReepers cannot see that. We’ve made enormous strides against the natural flow of power and money. There’s a trillion dollars against us and we continue to win.
The rest does not matter.
That is the real issue. Both the GOPE and the DEME live in the same places, went to the same schools, and have the same circles of people they work among. Their worldview is the same, and they honestly have no idea how the rest of the world outside of their enclaves operates.
Until we convert large blocks in that world, no amount of media populism will be successful. The candidates for national office come from those blocks, and many from state offices do to.
Case in point, my new Senator Joni Ernst. I have met her, respect her, and she and I share a very similar viewpoint. She will never be on a major committee, or allowed to have to much pull in Washington because she is a farmer's daughter from Iowa. The other GOP senators do not like her, and have been trying to manipulate her into creating a bad image (Much like they did to Palin).
Seriously? Strides like this?
New GOP Border Security Bill Removes Border Fences http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3249290/posts
I would modify your observation. I think that our side has the potential to win, but not in the political realm. Ultimately we win not by reference to electoral politics, which is completely rigged against us, but by rendering electoral politics moot. So you mock, satirize, and make end runs.
“We’re winning and I don’t know why FReepers cannot see that. We’ve made enormous strides against the natural flow of power and money. There’s a trillion dollars against us and we continue to win.”
I suspect that some are trolls...but most are simply, and understandably, FED-UP.