“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.
Yep. And I’m as guilty as any of allowing myself to get bogged down in a useless exercise of trying to get pigs to sing opera. FR is a little different though in who you’re trying to appeal to are not so much the posters but the lurkers.
That said, I’m looking at moving my efforts elsewhere. I’m more than happy to debate folks but I would like to start with more or less shared goals. I got into an extremely contentious discussion a few weeks ago with a few people who are just rabidly anti libertarian. While I don’t consider myself a libertarian, I am sympathetic to some of their goals. And I really had to ask myself...is this worth my time? Are the few lurkers I might reach worth the effort if takes to reach them?
All in all i’d rather build things than interminably discuss what should be built. And like the line in the movie, if you build it they will come. Or not.