Yo! Remember when Gramma was scared of the computer? What is worse, knowing we are definitely losing our country and not trying to save it, or trying to save it without knowing exactly what the results might be?
Going into slavery with your eyes wide open is insane. If there is even the slightest chance we can stop it and we don’t try, we insure our children will never have a future. I don’t really see a choice here.
Exactly. Unless Kirk and Buckley were wrong, our best chance is to "stand astride history and scream STOP!"
Conservatism is about preserving and protecting the cultural and societal contract of long-tested traditions. Things like life, liberty, personal property, rule of law, marriage, etc.
Meanwhile, what are we saving?
Laura Ingraham had a good comment the other day on that freakshow of gay on the American Music Awards. Where outrageous ludeness didn't even evoke raised eyebrows, much less outrage.
She asked, "Is this the country we're fighting to save?"
Suppose we win congress and potus. The morality and social and economic traditions of the country continue to crumble.