I was speaking more to the general trend towards liberalism in the Republican party (aka Rinos) over the last several decades. At the state and local level, our Congressional representatives are elected directly by us. Our involvement in local politics (or lack thereof) does have an impact on Washington, for Obama derives his totalitarian power from Congress.
The public has been slowly snookered into allowing ever more liberal candidates to be elected, thus there is now a one-party system governing the country.
Not knowing how to fight criticism from the left, and a lack of local participation, has IMO led to this disaster.
My apologies for not being more specific.
No apologies are necessary, and what you say is absolutely correct as far as congress and the senate. Just wanted to point out how conservatives really had no possible vote in the last presidential election.
“The public has been slowly snookered into allowing ever more liberal candidates to be elected, thus there is now a one-party system governing the country.
Not knowing how to fight criticism from the left, and a lack of local participation, has IMO led to this disaster.”
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Exactly! We have not been *effective* at fighting this battle. We have not known how to handle the media, criticism and even corruption within the Republican party. We certainly haven’t known how to deal with theh RINOs nor how to grow the Conservative movement to be more ethnically diverse. We need to seriously review our approach and make sure that while we stand on principle, we don’t forsake strategy and our God given ability to think through the best way to accomplish an end. This is what has made American great for so long and it is what WILL rejuvinate the Conservative cause!
You may know what I think by now: use a BOTH/AND strategy to drive the Republican party back into our camp..