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

Topeka Wrote: Nov 13, 2012 10:09 AM

Democrats have poisoned their minds about Republicans, convincing them we are racists or at the very least don't have their best interests at heart. ---- You are too kind, David. It's tribalism. They vote against themselves to keep their own on the Dem's (mostly Whitey) plantation. When they wake up, the shock is palpable. The flip side is that we need to make sure we are ready to "baptize" when they do "convert." All too many people will explode when they meet someone coming in from the cold - when they need the Love Bomb the most. Conservative principles may not be a religion to us - but their Liberalism is a religion to them. Until we treat is as such, we will lose.

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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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