Political Shock & Awe (Vanity)

They are both rather small as a percentage but with control beyond their size.
The Left dominates American culture via education and mass media.
Will the bickering between the conservatives and the libertarians make it impossible? Will the religious and the athiest wings of Free Republic dilute the power of the whole?
WORLD Sept. 2, 2000: Remarkable Providences: Fear of the Lord…Rabbi Lapin's fearless statement makes sense: "Those of us who venerate freedom, be we Jewish or Christian, be we religious or secularized, have no option but to pray for the health of Christianity in America. No other group possesses both the faith and the numbers sufficient to hold back the ever-encroaching, sometimes sinister, power of the state."
Is it even possible for conservatives to make the sacrifices necessary to deliver if action is called for?
We have to work and play and worry about our 401k. Not much energy or time left for anything else.
Just look at the list for which we could fight to "liberate" America, the issues where most Americans have one opinion but the left forces another direction:
There are numerous conservative organizations, initiatives, and ideas. The means of transmitting those ideas to the general public is limited. As a result, prioritizing and implementing those initiatives are most difficult. The few ideas that eventually make it through the propaganda gauntlet, are highly compromised by the time they become policy.
With all due respect to President Bush (and a lot of respect is due!), his Presidency and the current Republican majority is not much better than the 1991 Iraqi cease fire.
Given the decline in public morality and knowledge of self-government, Bush is the best you could have hoped for.
Can we deliver shock & awe to drive the left out of the political landscape for good?

W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion....Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. John Adams

O]nly a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Benjamin Franklin

I am aware this has become a rant, but I do not believe I am alone in feeling impotent when a majority party is made to cower by a bunch of whiny, power-hungry socialists.

No apology necessary. Perhaps it is the rant of a Somali soldier who was not given sufficent cover to exfiltrate in the event a plan goes awry?

We have to go on the offensive.......a strategy foreign to the Republican Party. I'm writing my letter to Dr. Frist in the morning.

It's the nature of that offensive I thinke we need to discover. It didn't take long to get Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks to apologize. That was a good campaign but what exactly did we do? How can we translate that and scale it up to the level of "Shock and Awe?"

I don't think letter writing is the issue, unless you can help tally the letters or deliver bags of them by hand at a press conference. (Remember "Miracle on 34th Street?") They can always send a form letter back and ignore the issue in public. You're right the media is against us so we must be able to win even in that environment.

I wish I had ideas, but that is why I posted here. I'm looking for them from a large number of brilliant people.

I certainly appreciate your insight.

Shalom

Is there a way we can act to back up that prayer?

"If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their lands".
Real progress never comes easily. It involves sacrifice. It involves pain.
Sacrifice and pain are anathema to our culture.
It is much easier to inculcate youth with the fundamental truths of self-government than to change the thinking/habits of adults. As long as public education continues to be a monopoly that is dominated by the N.E.A. which propagates cultural Marxism, the hope for any future reform of the habits of the populace and their government will be remote.
- FindLaw | Legal Professionals | Students | Business | Public | ... The Congress finds that - (3) parents have the primary responsibility for the education of their children, and States, localities, and private institutions have the primary responsibility for supporting that parental role; (4) in our Federal system, the primary public responsibility for education is reserved respectively to the States and the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States…
- Volume 10 Number 26 Bauman: Home Schooling in the United States The article assembles evidence from several sources to confirm that home schooling is growing.
- Survey shows one fourth of Americans want to end Public Schooling
The effort to change the thinking/habits of adults must persist, even in the face of insurmountable odds, to decelerate the approach of this culture to the point of no return. F.R., Limbaugh, WorldNetDaily have contributed to this goal.
Short answer - Reverse the applicable Communist Goals - 1963 Congressional Record

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1. a set of premises upon which the team will rely for its position on issues.
2. a common understanding of the problem we face.
3. a goal
Taking America Back, by Joseph Farah If any criticism can be levelled at Joseph Farah's approach it is that it propounds a leaderless movement. It calls for individual action, which is good, but like most grass roots movements it needs reinforcement to sustain it. It requires a spokesperson to focus energy and to enunciate its goals.
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Taking America Back exposes the weaknesses in America’s current system and offers practical solutions -- solutions that are real and doable. Solutions that can revive freedom, morality, and justice in our nation.
"Joseph Farah and I share a fierce passion for protecting children and a belief that without the Ten Commandments there would be no U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights. Every American who shares our convictions should read this book." -- Dr. Laura C. Schlessinger, Author of The Ten Commandments
"Joseph Farah has written a thought-provoking recipe for reclaiming America’s heritage of liberty and self-governance. I don’t agree with all the solutions proposed here, but Farah definitely nails the problems." -- Rush Limbaugh
Taking Back America This is the place to find out more about the book, to share your thoughts about "Taking America Back" with Farah and others.
Op/Ed - Taking America backToo many Republicans don't honor the Constitution any more than their Democrat counterparts. They don't understand the federal government is strictly limited by the Constitution in its powers. They don't understand that most lawmaking authority was reserved by our wise founders for the states. They don't understand that the great American experiment in politics was its commitment to self-government – meaning a commitment to individual liberty and responsibility.
The country is not ready for that second American revolution. Not yet. It needs one. But the people don't know it.
America is in desperate need of a spiritual awakening – the kind of revival that preceded the War of Independence in the 18th century. Spiritual awakening leads to moral renewal, and moral renewal leads to self-government, limited government, freedom.
You can't have the latter without the former.

I do not disagree with your post, and will check out Joseph Farrah. But let me suggest some of the ideas I have toyed with in my mind. I am mindful that most would require sacrifice, and that this likely makes them unlikely to be accomplished.

Suppose FReepers could identify one candidate from each state and deliver to that candidate 100 volunteers to get his/her message out door to door before a campaign.

Suppose FReepers could idenfity one issue and provide a registered booth at one mall in each of 300 cities to present conservative information on the issue for 100 days.

Suppose FReepers could establish minority outreach GOP headquarters in each of 300 cities. These headquarters would not be for distributing "we like you until we get your votes" sound bites but for actually establishing a relationship with the people in the neighborhood and create a true conservative dialog. Note: dialog involves listening.

Suppose FReepers could shut down the news department phone lines of 300 television market leaders in 300 cities for 2 days demaing they cover the Dimocrat usurpation of power in court nominations. Call with one clear, consistent message like "when will you tell the public that the Dimocrats are denying these nominees a simple vote on their appointment.?"

Suppose FReepers shut down the office of 300 representatives/senators until the official agreed to a debate on one specific topic with a reasonably trained FReeper at the venue of the candidate's choosing.

Would those be big enough to instill terror in the left? Would those be "Shock and Awe?" Would those be possible?

Shalom.

one candidate from each state…deliver…100 volunteers to get his/her message out door to door before a campaign.
idenfity one issue and provide a registered booth at one mall in each of 300 cities to present conservative information on the issue for 100 days. ( JUST PRIOR TO A CONGRESSIONAL VOTE OR ELECTION?)
establish minority outreach GOP headquarters in each of 300 cities….for establishing a relationship with the people in the neighborhood and create a true conservative dialog. Note: dialog involves listening.
shut down the news department phone lines of 300 television market leaders in 300 cities for 2 days demaing they cover the Dimocrat usurpation of power in court nominations. Call with one clear, consistent message like "when will you tell the public that the Dimocrats are denying these nominees a simple vote on their appointment.?"
shut down the office of 300 representatives/senators until the official agreed to a debate on one specific topic with a reasonably trained FReeper at the venue of the candidate's choosing.

Would those be big enough to instill terror in the left? Would those be "Shock and Awe?" Would those be possible?

#1 & #2 are reasonable and achievable. Don some FreeRepublic.com hats and shirts with "...the government and the corporate media have over the years created, through regulation and policy, a liberal propaganda machine whose goal is to continue the expansion of a collective state and to control every aspect of our lives and fortunes. We on Free Republic are determined to speak out against this illegal alliance..."

Abortion could be one of those issues: F.R. Poll:Should Roe vs Wade be overturned? 02/04/2003, Yes. 2,634 votes - 81%

#3 establishing a relationship with the people requires a significant amount of time.

#4 Senate Is to Advise And Consent, Not Obstruct and Delay requires a significant number of Freepers.

#5 Requires a great number of Freepers to shut down the office of 300 representatives/senators

#4 and #5 would be "Shock and Awe" to me! The homosexual advocates haven't even pulled this off.

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