[nathanbedford]

The lesson from the national turnaround about gay marriage and gay rights and the reciprocal diminution of religious liberty for conservatives is that culture trumps politics and culture trumps law. Many of the battles that we lose at the ballot box or in the courts have in reality been already lost in the schools, churches, television studios and press rooms of America.

The left has been very effective at conditioning our institutions from the bottom up until they can impose a top-down solution to their liking. We conservatives have been wholly ineffective in attending to the basic institutions which ultimately determine our fate.

The best route for conservatives today, well there still is some time and some semblance of conservative thinking abroad in the land is to resort to the constitutional provisions of Article V. That Avenue offers a top-down solution via a bottom-up route.

[DiogenesLamp]

The left has been very effective at conditioning our institutions from the bottom up until they can impose a top-down solution to their liking. We conservatives have been wholly ineffective in attending to the basic institutions which ultimately determine our fate.

We are otherwise occupied making a living and living our lives. Liberals mostly work in Government, Academia (still government mostly) and Media. (Entertainment/News)

The jobs and industries they are in, give them far more influence than do the jobs conservatives do, and they make every effort to monopolize those jobs through deliberately discriminatory hiring practices, and rigorously imposed group think.

[Steelfish]

The left now occupies the higher echelons of corporate power in Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Hollywood. The demographics have dramatically shifted. Not long ago Mona Charen wrote a column in the National Review saying that if Reagan were alive today, he would lose California and not win the White House.

Art V Amendemnt is not possible since it requires the consent of the legislatures of 3/4 of the states. We don’t have a “conservative” majority in 3/4 of the states’ legislatures.