Reply #15: No, I don't. [View All]

But I can point out how ineffective it is. If people care about whether or not they are ineffective, they might learn something. The rest I kind-of don't care about from the standpoint of how I spend my time trying to affect change.

They have embraced their politics and their rhetoric in a way unimaginable 25 years ago.

Emphasis mine, of course.

And yet the modern conservative movement is over thirty, maybe even over fourty years old. They spent years building the infrastructure to be able to get the support they need to stay in power, rather than fracturing the right and remaining a minority. Had they seceded because of some of Nixon's more liberal domestic policy accomplishments like the EPA, or Reagan's failure in getting the Republican nomination in 1976, I imagine they wouldn't be so powerful.