I like the article because it resonates with these thoughts of mine:
- Primacy of political goals over cultural goals was a mistake. The thinking “let’s get the GOP elected and then worry about the cultural agenda” did not deliver the cultural agenda, and couldn’t keep the GOP in power anyway.
- The Reagan coalition of cultural and religious right, Wall Street libertarianism and militarism had no reason to survive the Cold War, and is now dead.
- Conservatives should strive for better identification rather than for coalition building. The new right should strengthen its Christian and countercultural character.
- Parallel, explicitly Christian institutions should be built whenever possible, while secular institutions gradually abandoned.
Basically, we should be preparing for the catacombs.
Yes. The quick answer is, get your kids out of public school.
The bigger answer is something that churches are best positioned to lead, though it can't be limited to them. We can't achieve what we need to achieve by trying to steer a railroad train. We have to build the society we want to live in. Call it "parallel" institutions, thats as good a name as any.
Don't send your kids to State University. Find a college that better represents your values. Hillsdale is an example of the kinds of schools we should be supporting and building. Saint Thomas Aquinas, Gutenberg College, or maybe good old-fashioned military tech school. Don't give your opponents access to the minds of your most precious possession. Don't do it.
Turn off the junk on TV. With a hundred channels to choose from, there is no need to watch anything Hollywood puts out. Watch something uplifting, watch "flip this house", listen to music, or turn it off altogether. Play ball, play the accordeon, take the kids paint-balling, do anything but leave the junk TV off. You wouldn't track mud into your home, why ever would you let these people in?
Never turn on the alphabet networks for any reason; they are everything we reject. The day you refuse to tune them in is the day you start to get your own head clear and more importantly you block them from getting inside your kids' skulls.
If you're unchurched, consider doing something about that. Don't look for perfection, look for someplace you can contribute, and someplace that has kids who want to be there. If you do nothing else, your kids need to know that there are eternal principles that are worth living and dying for, and they need to know who God is. Fail at that and we don't have to worry what the politicians do to us.