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Before We Give Up, Could We At Least Try Selling Our Ideas?

jblowthemidget Wrote: Nov 13, 2012 7:14 PM

OK, so is it forcing morality on someone when we pass laws forbidding adults to marry children, blood relatives, or more than one person at a time? Is it a moral choice to tell sibling they cannot marry? Fathers and daughters? Is it a moral decision that incest is a bad, bad thing? There is also a related question when it relates to societal benefits and entitlements. If taxpayer money is going to the "spouse" (or spouses in polygamy), then can those paying the costs (the taxpayers) set limits on which relations they choose to subsidize? Can those who pay taxes proclaim that they, for example, have no wish to pay survival benefits to multiple wives of a polygamous marriage?

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Before We Give Up, Could We At Least Try Selling Our Ideas?

We conservatives may never reach a consensus among ourselves as to the main factors that caused our election defeat, but surely we can agree that we must do a better job of selling our ideas.

Never mind, you say. The electorate has irreversibly become a taker class, and conservative ideas of self-reliance, personal responsibility and individual liberties will never appeal to a majority again, especially with demographics working against the GOP.

We must reject that, or we are as good as surrendering. To accept it, we are confessing our skepticism of the power of ideas, which itself is contrary to the conservative spirit.

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