Strategies for a Republican Victory in 2012 (and beyond) (by ContraSuggest)

One of the enduring legacies of America’s much celebrated junk culture is the continual support for liberals in public office; more people get their political notions from the left-wing entertainment industry than at any other time in American history.  Add to this mix the influence of far-left TV comedians, web board administrators, news commentators, educators, elected officials, priests, rabbis, scout leaders, judges, and government bureaucrats, and it fast becomes obvious why the mental disorder known as liberalism cannot be eradicated from our governmental institutions.  This constant brainwashing of the politically ignorant and largely apathetic segment of the public has produced an atmosphere in which the precepts of conservatism have taken on the character of social leprosy.  In this shallow, hedonistic atmosphere, conservatives are doomed before they open their mouths to speak.  Notions such as exercising personal responsibility, spending only as much as you earn, and observing the golden rule, are bloody casualties of America’s morally and ethically corrupt Lady Gaga culture.  Those immersed in it, but uninterested in the details of public affairs, invariably develop a default setting which basically says: Bush was a fascist idiot, but Obama is mad cool!        

For decades, conservatives’ attempts to convince a puerile, junk culture-informed public to change its direction have fallen on deaf ears.  Despite the magnificent efforts of the Tea Party, the U.S. population has become more politically Balkanized than ever before.  Although the movement is strong and effective, the troglodyte media has successfully portrayed Tea Partiers as a bunch of toothless, bigoted, out-of-touch, neo-Nazi hicks.  Not to Tea Party supporters, of course (which I count myself among), who could never be fooled by so crass and ridiculous a characterization, but to the junk culture automatons referenced above.  Conservatives might be tempted to say “to hell with them, who needs them anyway?”  Sadly, we do, if we’re ever going to assemble a winning electoral majority and potentially save our exceptional American traditions from winding up on the slag heap of history.  The Tea Party must make political inroads in liberal geographic strongholds like the extreme East and West Coasts of the country, their virtual strongholds in cyberspace, and cultural institutions like universities and the old school media.  What is required is an aggressive, multi-pronged offensive.  Many of these individuals, primarily secular and unengaged in anything political, do vote, and we’re going to need converts from this group.  Keep in mind that even if these people do not vote, they greatly contribute to an atmosphere conducive to the achievement of leftist goals; the zeitgeist’s acceptance of leftist policy is just as much a factor in the passage of bad laws, as actual voters who pull the lever for leftist politicians.  Convincing these people to swim against the currents of leftism created by the drive-by media is problematic to say the least.  So how will conservatives get their messages out, and what will prevent them from being dead on arrival?           

The Canadian writer Marshall McLuhan famously remarked that “the medium is the message,” which implied that the characteristics of a particular medium, rather than the information it disseminates, is what influences and controls society.  Regardless of the speed and efficiency of current communications technology, it makes little difference whether young people are passing notes to one another on slips of paper in English class, or whether they’re texting each other on $500 iPhones, either way the content of the messages remain the same.  McLuhan has been vindicated to some degree as evidenced in the public’s obsession with technological communications gadgets.  This ubiquitous technology, with which potential voters are so enamored, represents a preexisting conduit through which the conservative message can flow.  The medium may well be the message, but if information carried by the medium is targeted and contains consistent themes, it will start to change perceptions.  These technological mediums must be fully exploited if we’re going to have a chance of deprogramming the people who use them of their leftist knee-jerk emotionalism, and fill that void with reason and facts.  We must use the public’s fascination with e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, mobile texting, Skype and all the various hardware gadgets that enable them, in order to get our message out.  Quite frankly, we need more conservatives to get involved in the entertainment industry, writing and producing TV programs and movies; like any other money making venture, if a conservative themed TV program is well-written it will resonate with viewers, and if it garners high ratings, it will make money and be successful (remember “24?”).  Over time the content of the messages will start to sink in.  The Republican Party needs a leader, and or presidential candidate who is tough, articulate, charismatic, conservative and adept at organizing and leading a high-tech multimedia assault on our far-left, corrupt social institutions; while at the same time aggressively taking on his or her Democratic opponent.   

A tall order to be sure, but the only way we can win is to understand that deft use of information technology, greater control of various traditional media and understanding junk culture trends, are necessary components in reaching the public in any kind of effective way in the 21^st century.  This process needs to start far in advance of an election; the culture wasn’t lost overnight, it can’t be taken back overnight either.  One thing is for certain, the next Republican candidate can no more hope to be elected president with our compromised cultural institutions actively supporting his or her opponent, than a boxer can hope to win his next fight, with the referee, timekeeper, and judges all in his opponent’s corner.  No one person can do this alone, the standard bearer will have to coordinate and lead an orchestrated effort that must include the aid of all conservatives, currently in the minority in most American cultural institutions.  We must strongly reaffirm that conservatives are in the minority not because their worldview is wrong.  They’re in the minority because going down the road of liberalism is easy, hedonistic, seductive, and emotionally satisfying.  All individuals are flawed, but since left-wing junk culture celebrates flaws and wears them as a badge of honor, many voters buy into that thinking, hoping that their own flaws will be excused instead of being held to a higher standard.  It’s time for conservatives to repackage their brand ID and make thorough use of both traditional communications mediums and the popular newer mediums of the third-wave information age to take back the mindset of the American public.