I just think we need to stop feeding ourselves feel-good myths about this supposed "conservative majority". The evidence to support it's existence simply does not exist. If we want it to exist, we've got a lot of people to persuade.
I believe there is truth to this statement. I think the depraved state of our culture testifies of this fact. I know I have watched churches actually embrace overt abomination as right and good and adopt the SJW doctrines as biblical while denouncing the bible itself, just as an example of how intrusive this big government social justice movement is and how insidious it's reach.
The acceptance of Big Government Socialism and 'making government work better' by making it larger is on nearly every Republican's lips I talk with in the meat world. The idea of shrinking government and 'leaving people to fend for themselves' is a horror of thought to a people who do not want the risk of liberty and personal responsibility - but WANT more than anything - the promise of the safety net, which they think Government exists to provide them.
Persuading people of the rightness of Conservatism is something the GOP has refused to do since Reagan. In fact Bush tarnished the entire premise of the values of Conservatism with his 'kinder, gentler Conservatism' - as if what Reagan espoused was harsh and bitter.
Persuading people now of the benefits of foundational principles is no less the task of converting die-hard Socialists. And we have to start from the ground floor, and we need to be separate from the corrupted parties in D.C. because they WANT Socialism, because it gives them more power and control over your life and wallet.
