The best and most incisive part of that was the last sentence...and if there are those who can’t subscribe to these principles, then let them go their own way.
I think about the amount of time, effort, and resources that we spend as conservatives in a vain effort to make pigs sing. A large portion of the population, maybe a majority, subscribe to the idea that there IS a free lunch and have no problem with the idea that peacekeepers with guns should rob others to pay for that free lunch. That’s just the way it is.
And I don’t say that out of despair but actually one of optimism. Because once you start to accept things as they are and not as you wish they were, strategies to do better for you and yours begin to emerge.
My tagline offers one positive strategy for a better future. There are others.
“I think about the amount of time, effort, and resources that we spend as conservatives in a vain effort to make pigs sing.”
For an eye opening experience, pick several contentious posts at random. You will find 2-3ish people pushing moderation/liberal/non-conservative ideas and often screaming ‘Purist” or the lates one as I learned yesterday from Johnny, “Absolutist”
Then count up the man hours by everyone else on the thread, myself included, trying to teach that pig to sing.
Then realize that all those hours are wasted and all those are hours we could have used to either further educate ourselves or to help promote/elect a conservative.
THEN ponder whether or not some of those people are not paid or otherwise willing GOPers there for that very purpose.