Posted on 01/16/2013 5:07:51 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
(Note: This same topic was posted by Jeff Jacoby, and discussed here. Now we get to read from Steyn)
Not to be too pedantic, but for there to be a future of conservatism in America there first has to be a future in America. And thats a more open question than my more optimistic comrades like to admit. The Brokest Nation in History has just told the rest of the world that it is incapable of serious course correctionand around the planet prudent friends and enemies will begin planning for a post-American order. So at some point reality will interveneeither in the form of total societal collapse or, one hopes, something marginally less convulsive. The first responsibility of conservatives between now and 2016 is to have an adult conversation with the citizenrythe one that Mitt Romney chose to eschew in favor of vague jobs promises punctuated by bold assertions that I believe in America. So what? What matters is whether reality still believes in America.
And, when reality strikes, will Americans turn to conservatism? The evidence from November is not reassuring. .....(Read the rest, it gets better)
(Excerpt) Read more at commentarymagazine.com ...
On the average, a country lasts 250 years. This country is how old, 233 years old?
But the next horrendous ‘mass shooting’ might be manufactured, or the next one ...... I just know not to trust all what you hear or read, esp. within the 48 hrs of “Breaking News”.
I don't know the sign or if the trigger had been pulled (there are way wiser folks than me).
What took place in both CO and CT is to the present time as “bleeding KS” was in the years just before the civil war.
The future is to spend the next 20 years building a REAL opposition party. One that accurately reflects the values of the American people. That way we’ll be ready to start picking up the pieces after the Dems have taken the ship into the iceberg (by which time the GOP will be relegated to a historical footnote).
Socialists control the culture now.
There is no turning back.
Next step is realization that we are in a Cold Civil War.
Got to remember that it goes all the way back to the days of the belching smoke stake still mills.
In regards to the Catholic faith, not just Latin rite Catholics but also Eastern rite Catholics as well.
.....Which will down the road, get “hot” the civil war.
Yep, it’s etched in the history around here going back to the late 19th. century. A kind of soft class warfare directed at the wealthy and the employers. Despite all of his philanthropy....the museums, libraries, being a major employer who put this town on the map....I remember a number of adults who would have gladly bought a ticket to Scotland to go take a p*ss on Andrew Carnegie’s grave.
” culture trumps politics, and not just in the movies and pop songs, grade schools and mainline churches, but increasingly in the boardrooms..., conservatives need to start fighting on the turf that matters. “
Sounds like we need to invade the liberal’s turf. That’s where the hearts and minds are.
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