Ok, I thought I was going to stay away, but I’m too much of an activist and I can’t help but read comments on my favorite blogs. Call me a lurker if you must but I am the good kind, gathering intel before laying out what needs to be done.

Points of order: Loyal opposition, the country has spoken and it voted against our wishes. Eight years ago the country voted and it was with our wishes. Part of being an American is understanding the nature of our politics, we made our wishes known, we lost. We will resist and show ourselves BETTER than the left in their opposition to Bush. Else wise we are no better. Reread that and think about it.

Everybody will be debating why it happened, we all knew it was a long shot to begin with. We just wouldn’t face it. Instead we clung to hope, never a bad thing, but when reality hits we have a choice. Run and hide, snivel and whine, or face it head on.

Can you guess which one I am about to suggest?

Let all the paid people figure out what happened… we know already: Mac was not a conservative, we know this. There was no real counter to liberal ideas. Period, end of story, maybe he could have won, I doubt it. The point is he didn’t and President Obama will take office in about two and a half months.

So ponder this friends, we are about to embark on a journey that will lead to beautiful vistas from high reaching mountains, and dark and lonely valleys. The battle over the country is not over its just beginning. I will not cede defeat until they arrest and silence me. Will you?  

Everyone wants to know what to do now? I have previously given suggestions, yet all continue to wonder what to do, am I talking to myself? It wouldn’t be the first time.

So let me break this down for those who want to know what to do, pay attention, but don’t worry if you miss something, because I have a feeling that I will repeat this often in exhortation and encouragement.

Forget everything you hear and know, forget about various polices that might be enacted, forget about the possibilities of socialism, and focus yourself on the foundational core of what I am going to lay out right now. The rest we will address when the need arises.

FAITH-FAMILY-COUNTRY

Those three items are the three lamposts from which we can find the foundation. Any other guidance is dark and cannot guide us in the tempest that is coming. So let us begin.

There is reason I list them in that specific order, much like the way each successive Right of the Bill of Rights builds on the previous Right.

Faith is a part of the human psyche regardless of what atheists and the like would tell you. Furthermore it is uniquely part of the American experience for a large swath of our society (85% believe in God). It is absolutely unquestionable that our Founder’s understood faith and its importance in governance. (please don’t bore me in comments with “proofs” otherwise) Faith is fguiding, even beyond its immediate religious connotations. God calls everyone to become part of his family, he considers us children of his. The Christian tradition is full of examples of God as Father. It is upon this guidance that our own families are built. We find in faith a blueprint for family and life beyond.

If you pray, pray for your families, our current and next president, and our beloved country. If you don’t or don’t believe in God then don’t begrudge us our faith.

Family is the secondary lampost, but is incredibly important in the rebuilding we wish to do. It is here that we prepare the next generation, it is here that we counter the onslaught from outside, it is here that we help our children hone their skills in cognitive thinking that will allow them to discern the difference between right and wrong, truth and lie. It is here tha we give them the foundation. (more on that later)

This cannot be overstated; our children and grand children are the future of this country. If we fail to restore this nation, it will be they who reclaim it, but only if we teach them what we believe, why we believe and how to apply that knowledge to their own lives.

So from Faith tends Family, and from Family tends Country. For what is a Country but a group of various families? Every nation great and small throughout history has followed a very simple pattern.

Shared vision (faith) – family – groups of families (creating a system to govern all their doings).

So begin with your personal faith whatever that may be. Start with your family ensuring the next generation is ready to take up the mantle of liberty. From your core family move to your extended family, don’t be shy or apologetic for your beliefs, it is your right to have them and to share them as you wish. Beyond the extended family lay friends and co-workers. Beyond them your community, your state, and your nation.

“Why are you being so simplistic RB?”

Because if you can’t talk politics with your family in a civil and yet persuasive manner, you will never be able to with anyone else. There is a building process to it, and experience in formulating and defending your ideas against people for whom you care and in return care for you, is a good place to practice. It will build in you the ability to sympathize or empathize with non –family members when you reach out to them.

So now that I have, yet again, outlined how to change the country, laying out the who and the how, the next question is the what.

What is the conservative message in these times? What is the message that can and will resonate with every member of our society that is worth reaching, our children first, then our communities then our nation?

Is it lower taxes?

Is it capitalism?

Is it guns?

Is it abortion?

Is it strong national defense?

Is it trade?

Is it the deficit?

Is it family values?

What is this elusive message that conservatives seem to have lost?

Are you ready, willing, and able to not only hear it but accept it? Let it seep deep into your being and guide everything you know? Are you ready to use it as the measure by which EVERY single thing that confronts the conservative movement can be gauged?

Will you take up the mantle with me and carry this message far and wide and use it as the platform for a revolution? You have heard it before, it’s always in the long list of conservative principles, tossed in as though among equals, when it stands head and shoulders above the rest. In fact it is from this singular principle that all other conservative ideas, notions, and values flow.

Dear reader it is the answer, the counter to every single issue of society, it has been right before our eyes and we failed to see it, instead getting lost in the mire of hot topic issues, like immigration, abortion, gun rights, taxes etc.

To every assault there is a counter measure, battles are won by discovering and using effectively the right counter measure. Here it is.

Individual Responsibility.

Teach it to your kids, explain it to your neighbors, make sure our political representatives understand and have adopted it in their own lives and will govern by it. Think about it readers. Contemplate it for a second or two or sixty. The message of the conservative movement needs to be Individual Responsibility.

Some examples:

Socialism? Individual responsibility, what is socialism if not collective responsibility?

Abortion? Individual responsibility; of those who engage in behaviors known to create babies.

Immigration? Individual responsibility; of those who would come to this nation.

Taxes? Individual responsibility; of citizens to pay, and individual responsibility of members of congress to use it properly.

Crime? Individual responsibility; of those who commit the crimes.

Have I made myself clear yet? This is a simple message that will resonate with people of all hyphenated types. From it's foundation can be built the framework that explains and expands all other conservative ideas and ideals.

Do you want to make a difference? Don’t forget to preach and teach Individual Responsibility.