Other than sitting around talking, dissecting, whining and pointing fingers, few conservatives are willing "to do something about it".
Some of us have done plenty about it. Everything from pounding pavement and knocking on doors to talking about our core principles with family, friends, co-workers and neighbors.
Sadly - we've been told to shut up about it; by the very people we once thought were fellows. People who once argued for the things we used to agree on. People who now don't want to hear about those things that animate our worldview. They have transformed themselves into an 'us' or 'them' dynamic. Vote Republican or go away; Don't remind us of your lofty principles - they lose elections; shove your morality - we're sick of hearing about it and it's a loser in elections.'
Trying to wake a people who have forgotten and abandoned our heritage and foundations is necessary because the next step is the recognition that we no longer have a commonality - but rather a hostility that will result in kicking the dust from our feet and to move on lest our own foundations also become as corrupted.
Some of us are already past that point in terms of party.
The vast majority of conservatives won't mingle with the great unwashed, roll up their shirt sleeves and do the heavy lifting, or ever, ever, ever see a glass as half full rather than empty.
I have 3 decades under my belt of mingling with Chicago Democrats, lifting a ton of signs, banners, mailers, yard signs, door hangers, candidate surveys and arguing for the Republican platform in a land of liberal Democrats. I've been shoved onto Metra tracks and had everything from spit to coffee flung on me. I've done all you assert the vast majority do not do and assert applies to me because you are as put off by the truth as assuredly as the Left is.
Some of us have done more than most, only to get stabbed in the back by our own party leadership and party hacks who value power and control to push for their own brand of Statism. A repudiation and rejection of the very principles that establish what was once the Conservative worldview for the temporary euphoria of 'winning' by losing those values that you now see as a ball and chain to electoral victory. As if winning elections is all that matters in life.
The art and strategy of politics is beneath them.
Conservatism is not about the art and strategy of politics. Conservatism is about living by and standing on principles and persuading the immutable value of their adoption and practice for the sake of maintaining liberty in society. Conservatism works everytime it is tried it used to be said. Now we are told that it doesn't work at all outside the art of politics. The politics that insists we compromise bedrock values that society has rejected order to 'win' political power. Power vested into a single individual whom is venerated as a political savior and champion.
pounding out word after word after word wondering to God why no one is doing what they're telling them to do.
Biblical history is replete with instance after instance of servants of the Lord who wondered the same exact thing after they were told to go and give their wayward people the message they then rejected.
Compromise with a generation that discarded their foundational principles to accept and adopt ideas anathema to their establishment was not an option for those servants. Warning their society of the consequences to come was their duty, not to play the art of politics to persuade a people who would not be persuaded except by the golden calves they erected before them because they were tangible and instant in providing gratification.
