The cold reality here is that the numbers of "conservative-minded" folk in the country is shrinking, and that the number of those who either describe themselves as "liberal", or who cloak themselves under the moniker of "independent" but -act- liberal regardless, is growing.
Certainly this is so amongst the young.
Anyone in this forum who tries to paint the picture otherwise is just foolin' themselves.
As the percentage of Euro-Americans decreases and that of non-Euro-Americans grows, the leftward-shift may accelerate into a plunge.
I'm a realist, and I see this.
But the $64 question is, what can be done about it?
I see two possible courses for the long-term future:
1. Conservative folk are destined to become a permanent minority in a liberal-majority land, and they're going to have to accept the consequences of that reality, including the increasing demonization of themselves by the left-leaning government,
or....
2. If conservatives DON'T want future #1, they're going to have to force the issue by splitting the existing nation into two or more new nations, at least one (or more) of them re-designed "from the Constitution up" to be a conservative nation for those who support and believe in traditional Euro-American values.
You'll laugh at me and the usual suspects will chime in with "there he goes again, trying to tie conservatism to old and meaningless social and cultural issues".
Well, fine. Say what you wish.
But I'm reminded of the comments of James Madison, primary author of the Constitution, about the government the Founders laid out for us:
"[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...
Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
As the country and culture crumble around us, isn't it amazin' how so many, some even here, turn their heads and plug their ears at such a statement ???