Can Conservatives Learn a New Trick?

I was watching the news the other day, when a story comes on about 2 mothers going on hunger strike for school dollars.  You have got to be kidding me!  Going on hunger strike because your kid’s school isn’t getting enough money!  Where are their priorities?  Does that really rate a hunger strike?

 

I know little to nothing about protesting, but shouldn’t hunger strikes be saved for things more dire?  How about protesting against those terrorists who want to blow up that same school you are trying to get more money for?  Maybe they should be protesting against all those laws that hamstring our military and intelligence agencies from protecting against an attack on that school?  Oh, and then there is this bailout of the banks, and car companies that are causing our government to look at taxing the heck out of those kids that attend that same school.   How about all those gangs, drug dealers and sex offenders that threaten that school, should they be protested against?  Or maybe the mothers should be protesting those laws and the lack of money that keep our police and justice system from catching and prosecuting those bad guys?  Or how about the fact that the convicts view most of the jails as a club med, therefore there is no longer any true deterrent from doing wrong against your kids?

 

These women have gotten our attention though, and maybe that is the key that conservatives have yet to truly find.  Yes, we do have the talk radio shows, blogs and even fox news now, but we are the silent ones.  Occasionally, we do see some conservatives out protesting, but nowhere near the amount of liberals that we see.  Try and find one day last year where there was no liberal protesting, somewhere in America.  You won’t find one.  Now look how often conservatives protested last year.  Not even close to the same number.

 

Conservatives tend to keep to themselves, which is part of what makes them conservative, but they just might learn something if they study the enemies playbook.  Liberals have made protesting an art form.  They do it so often that sometimes I think they actually have professional protesters. Every time they protest, they get peoples attention. They have found that by protesting often enough, about the same things, they can slowly change the publics mind.  They also grasp the attention, of the powers that be, with every protest.  Policy makers seem to get squeamish when the protestors are right outside their door.

 

Can we conservatives learn how to do the same thing?  It goes against our very natures, but the pro-lifers seemed to figure this out.  Maybe they should share their strategies with the rest of us.  Teach us and rally us.  Not just on pro-life questions but also on everything the conservatives stand for!

Are conservatives the new victims?

One of the main attributes of a victim is the desire to have others feel bad for them.  This is also one of the backbones of the liberal ideal.  They feel, instead of think.  They don’t want to feel bad, for themselves or anyone else and seem to think that if they throw enough victims at us we will feel the same.  Has the conservatives of this nation taken on this status?

 

Listening to talk radio, watching the news and researching the Internet you see and hear plenty of conservatives complaining.  The textbooks are to biased, too many liberals in the schools teaching/brainwashing our children, the media is too liberal, too many liberals in positions of power within local governments, too many liberals in polling places, too many liberal judges, etc. The complaining and even whining are getting out of control.  It is even to the point where it seems like they want to be viewed as the victim.  “Oh, poor us, they are out to get us!”  Maybe they are, so what are you going to do about it?

 

When are the conservatives going to stop complaining and start offering tangible solutions?  The common mantra seems to be “vote.”  Vote for what or who?  That is not working.  We need a better solution. 

 

It is ok to list the problems. The problems do have to be identified before they can be corrected, but at some point, someone has to point out what can be done.  There has to be something that we everyday people can do. 

 

Do we join militias and try to retake the country?  Do we take a different page from the liberal playbook and encourage our children to become the teachers of the next generation?  Or do we whine our life away? 

 

I don’t have the answers.  I wish I did.  I would love to hear your answers.