I see a much longer term trend here. It is not that conservatives don’t have a voice, it is that they are not being heard. The country isn’t shifting leftward because of any preference toward socialism, it is shifting leftward because it is being educated by a bunch of leftists, who are generally leftists because they are failures in the marketplace. Most folks don’t think much beyond what they have been taught in school. Why would anyone expect that they will? There aren’t many of us policy wonks, who are self inspired enough to think we are the betters of our teachers. This is a trend that will not be any easier to disrupt than the continuous growth of government. The teachers of our children live off of our tax dollars and have an exceedingly powerful union to preserve their current status. We can pontificate all we want. But if we don’t educate our own children, instead of leaving it up to these unionized government workers, we can expect a slow and steady leftward drift in our culture. Most of US share many of the same socialistic tendencies that we try to blame on the Dems. The concept of individual rights and responsibilities is far in our past and the worm started turning the day people started thinking that government could be responsible, while we could still be free. It will never work folks. Socialism will, by the necessity of central planning and control, no doubt result in tyranny. Obama or McCain never mattered much, in my opinion.
