If it was easy, everyone would do it!Andrew wrote:
The "better way" is as you stated, sell it to everyone. How do we do that with the hardcore antis? Change the way that you engage in the debate. I found this link http://jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/ragingagain ... efense.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; on another thread. A good look at who our opponents are and how to get through to them.
As I have observed a few times recently, Professor Lyndon Johnson had the essence of political science down pat.
It is just that simple, and indeed, in our form of republican democracy, such as it is, it is all that really matters.When you have the votes, they do things your way. When they have the votes, you do things their way.
It is absolutely essential to vote into office men and women who support and defend the Constitution as we believe it to be, and to get rid of those who do not or cannot.
Think of all the predicaments being successful would avoid. We wouldn't have to lay awake in terror every night praying for the health of a few Supreme Court Justices. As it is right now, if one, or God forbid, a couple of them get run over by a beer truck, or something dreadful, we're going to be in a mess. The same holds true with lower courts, and with the Senate. You guys have done your part, there in Texas, of course, but the rest of the country is in peril, and Texas because of it. Think of all the goofy laws, policies that have been passed in the last few decades. Is this America?
Somehow, the Texas attitude, the Texas lifestyle, the Texas way, has to be sold around the country. You can't have everyone move there. That would ruin everything. Not the hats, the pick up trucks, the bar-b-q, of course.
I have long considered that real Texans are among the world's finest people, responsible, self-reliant, honest, hard working, courteous to strangers, helpful to and protective of women and children, neighborly without being nosy, unafraid to deal with whatever challenges life may put in the path, uncomplaining mostly. You know some, I'm sure. I grew up with folks like that.
I worry that we are on the edge of an abyss, where all these traits, I consider them virtues, will be swept away in despair, degradation, dependence on the collective, into a new Dark Ages made more terrible by unchecked violence, want, ignorance, and superstition.
