Months ago I read an article which put forth the claim that there just aren't that many conservatives in the Republican party---most are moderate to liberal.
A big problem is that conservatives don't put in the effort for the long game.
Go to any public school, and you'll see posters from a variety of left-leaning organizations. Cute pictures of animals, earth scenes, etc., that aren't overtly political, but they are given to teachers and schools for free by groups like Greenpeace...and they set the tone for things like "animal rights" and "environmentalism".
School teachers are always dying for materials for their classes, and to get these for free...wow! They scoop them up!
Trouble is, conservatives don't make comparable efforts, such as free posters of the founding fathers, or whatever. I tried to get conservative groups to sponsor this in the 90s, with not much luck. The few materials I *did* see out there were so clumsily overtly political, they had no hope of being used.
And then there's volunteering in the schools. Or becoming a substitute teacher. Or even becoming a teacher. No, just the lefties are willing to do those things.
But I took some time off and became a substitute. And I made a small difference by teaching economics to kids who'd previously just gotten the left side of the story. Yeah, one school...likely forgotten now, I know. But imagine if more conservatives did it like the lefties do.
