Many Tactics, One Goal: Promoting the Progressive Worldview

The conservative movement is defensive, defeatist, depressed, and apologetic. It lacks self-confidence, virility, energy, intensity, vigor, aggressiveness, vitality, and a firm belief in the rightness of its cause ... This is because it has relied solely on activism and politicking, without reaching out to change the underlying assumptions of the culture ... The result of this misplaced focus is a society that does not recognize culturally conservative views, and is gradually coming to despise them ... imaginations are seldom captured by policy wonks on C-SPAN."[/q...

Many Tactics, One Goal: Promoting the Progressive Worldview

The conservative movement is defensive, defeatist, depressed, and apologetic. It lacks self-confidence, virility, energy, intensity, vigor, aggressiveness, vitality, and a firm belief in the rightness of its cause ... This is because it has relied solely on activism and politicking, without reaching out to change the underlying assumptions of the culture ... The result of this misplaced focus is a society that does not recognize culturally conservative views, and is gradually coming to despise them ... imaginations are seldom captured by policy wonks on C-SPAN."

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The conservative critique of the dominant liberal worldview was sharp and pointed; and they aggressively promoted it at every opportunity. (And if no opportunity presented itself, they weren't abashed about going out and creating one.) They set themselves up as a daring and controversial counterculture that offered an original and rebellious alternative to the prevailing set of cultural assumptions.
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