Good Grief
By J Norman Marsh
The election results of a week ago have discouraged many conservatives. And while a President Obama and a significant liberal majority in both houses of Congress led by the insufferable pair of Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid is a problem worthy of some discouragement, the real problem is sadly much larger. As Mark Steyn writes in the November 17th print edition of National Review:
If the default mode of a society’s institutions is liberal, electing GOP legislators eventually accomplishes little more than letting a Republican driver take a turn steering the liberal bus. If Hollywood’s liberal, if the newspapers are liberal, if the pop stars are liberal, if the grade schools are liberal, if the very language is liberal to the point where all the nice words have been co-opted as a painless liberal sedative, a Republican legislature isn’t going to be a shining city on a hill so much as one of those atolls in the Maldives being incrementally swallowed by Al Gore’s rising sea levels… We have to get back in the game in all the arenas we’ve ceded to liberalism - from kindergarten to blockbuster movies.
While I don’t believe that this election shows that the US has fundamentally shifted to the left as much as it is tired of President Bush and the Republican brand, clearly there’s lots of work to do. So, where do we begin?
Thaddeus Cook Said,
November 22, 2008 @ 10:21 am
When societies become as fundamentally rotten as ours has, those struggling against the tide will often pack up & head for greener pastures. But where do we go? Antarctica is the only remaining largely unpopulated land mass. As much as I prefer the cold weather, I don’t think an Antarctic settlement would be economically or politically viable.
So I suppose that means we have to work with what we’ve got and try to change things from the inside. But how does one stop an avalanche? Must we adopt the tactics of the radical leftists who have reshaped the face of our society? Infiltrate the schools, the media, etc.? Wouldn’t our enemies be wise to such a counter-counter-cultural revolution?