It's been a grueling 10 years, since the Dems went on the Bush offensive. It has seemed as though nothing conservatives could do would stop the onslaught.
And the worst of it is that Democratic failures are all put on President Bush. You can blame Bush all you want for Iraq, but everything else is bad Democratic ideas, from No Child Left Behind to cheap mortgages to stupid stimulus to cheap money and gargantuan deficits.
So conservatives can view the end of the Big Push with relief. Now, maybe, as the Obamis fumble and bumble, the American people will be willing to listen to a conservative message.
The trouble is that it's not enough. It is not enough for the American people to give up on liberals about once a generation and vote, sadder and wiser, for a Reagan or the Great White Hope of 2016. We have seen what ended up after the rebirth of the Reagan Revolution. It ended up with the locust years of Obama. The American people voted twice for the most left-wing president since Roosevelt, twice. And they are getting the same economy as the Roosevelt economy. Twice.
We know what the problem is. It's the culture. No matter what conservatives put forward, it gets buried by the cultural hegemony of the ruling class, the educated class.
It's said that if you have to explain your position you have already lost. Yes. No doubt. But it's important to realize that the Democrats have the media and the schools and Hollywood to do their explaining for them. The only thing they need to add are the talking points.
Can conservatives ever hope even to an equality in the culture wars? Probably not. That is why people like me are reduced to predicting a moral revolution. It is our only hope.
A moral revolution means that a critical mass of people in America make a moral turn in their lives and coalesce in a religious movement that starts to carry the rest of America with them. It would not necessarily be a church-based movement, but something more like the civil-rights movement or the pro-life movement.
You can see right away the problem such a movement would have. It would have to bulldoze through all the attacks from the liberal ruling class. It would have to be Churchillian, and never, never, never, never give up. In my view it would have to be a movement of young-to-middle-aged women. They would have to be insisting on a woman's right to live a woman's life: a life based on love, devotion, chastity, and family. Why? Because anything else ends up brutalizing and objectifying and marginalizing women. Or emptying woman's life of meaning. I mean life as a career, sex as recreation, life without children.
As we see Obama fail, as he must, because of the poverty of his ideas and the emptiness of the liberal ruling class, we hope for better days. But until women -- who usually do what they are told until it is too late -- rise up and demand a modern world that respects the life of women and things that have meaning for women, the years after Obama will only be a respite from the reduction of social life to an administrative life, and from association to domination, from society to state.
Until the revolution, then.
And the worst of it is that Democratic failures are all put on President Bush. You can blame Bush all you want for Iraq, but everything else is bad Democratic ideas, from No Child Left Behind to cheap mortgages to stupid stimulus to cheap money and gargantuan deficits.
So conservatives can view the end of the Big Push with relief. Now, maybe, as the Obamis fumble and bumble, the American people will be willing to listen to a conservative message.
The trouble is that it's not enough. It is not enough for the American people to give up on liberals about once a generation and vote, sadder and wiser, for a Reagan or the Great White Hope of 2016. We have seen what ended up after the rebirth of the Reagan Revolution. It ended up with the locust years of Obama. The American people voted twice for the most left-wing president since Roosevelt, twice. And they are getting the same economy as the Roosevelt economy. Twice.
We know what the problem is. It's the culture. No matter what conservatives put forward, it gets buried by the cultural hegemony of the ruling class, the educated class.
It's said that if you have to explain your position you have already lost. Yes. No doubt. But it's important to realize that the Democrats have the media and the schools and Hollywood to do their explaining for them. The only thing they need to add are the talking points.
Can conservatives ever hope even to an equality in the culture wars? Probably not. That is why people like me are reduced to predicting a moral revolution. It is our only hope.
A moral revolution means that a critical mass of people in America make a moral turn in their lives and coalesce in a religious movement that starts to carry the rest of America with them. It would not necessarily be a church-based movement, but something more like the civil-rights movement or the pro-life movement.
You can see right away the problem such a movement would have. It would have to bulldoze through all the attacks from the liberal ruling class. It would have to be Churchillian, and never, never, never, never give up. In my view it would have to be a movement of young-to-middle-aged women. They would have to be insisting on a woman's right to live a woman's life: a life based on love, devotion, chastity, and family. Why? Because anything else ends up brutalizing and objectifying and marginalizing women. Or emptying woman's life of meaning. I mean life as a career, sex as recreation, life without children.
As we see Obama fail, as he must, because of the poverty of his ideas and the emptiness of the liberal ruling class, we hope for better days. But until women -- who usually do what they are told until it is too late -- rise up and demand a modern world that respects the life of women and things that have meaning for women, the years after Obama will only be a respite from the reduction of social life to an administrative life, and from association to domination, from society to state.
Until the revolution, then.
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