How about an ancillary message that if you make it in America, don’t have to kill your unborn kids.

“Conservatives need to find a way of presenting to the broad American cultural a kind of “school house rock” curriculum that can efficiently navigate through the obstacles of political cultural ADD to reveal the underlying reasons why liberal policy fails, and conservative policy doesn’t.”

I have no idea of how the particulars might work (and if I did I would be a millionaire), and I would put it differently, that is about the right idea.

Well according to the WaPo Exit Poll it turns out the presidency was delivered to Obama by “self-obsessed emotivists” :

https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/266570635927498753

Among polled voters, Romney led decisively among voters whose concerns were about relevant Presidential qualities, specifically, values, strength of leadership and vision. But Obama all but owned that portion of the voters whose primary concern was that the president “care for people like them.”

That to me is the definition of “self obsessed emotivists.”

So what to do? The answer is this: political/cultural remediation. Conservatives need to find away to expose this growing population of emotional narcissists to the realities of bad policy that is both appealing to these sorts of folks, ie entertaining, yet also edifying at least in a remedial sense. Hence my example above, also noted by Kate.

Conservatives need to find a way of presenting to the broad American cultural a kind of “school house rock” curriculum that can efficiently navigate through the obstacles of political cultural ADD to reveal the underlying reasons why liberal policy fails, and conservative policy doesn’t.

It doesn’t really take courage to talk about abortion, but opportunity. Intruding with the topic only drives people away and into the kind of rationalistic retreat of Ms. Williams, linked to in the post. We do have to talk about it long, but I suggest softly and with persistence, watching for opportunity. If people perceive you as clownish, they won’t take you seriously. That’s important, because we cannot mess up the message by offending. Murder, but legal murder, which means they all think they’ve got a right. Distinctions between civil rights and natural rights get lost. This civil right to murder is unnatural and we can talk about it like that. What to do when people deny natural law, that’s what I am seeing as the problem.

We’re talking about murder here and once the state mounts that slippery slope, well the next thing is they come for is the non-productive elderly. And, you know Democrat-progressivists are just salivating at the chance to begin those processes associated with euthanasia. Do you think that when the Dems launch that campaign you will be able to find a place to discuss it?

However, you’ve had the courage to raise the subject here at PoMoCon and generated one of the longer threads in a while here. And, thank you for that.

Really?
We’re talking about the systemic, politically encouraged, slaughter that makes the Nazi blush at his incompetence. And, its happening in your country, in your state, in your city and you’re concerned with ‘giving offense?’
Well, I guess we don’t want to upset the faculty lounge crew?

Carl, you did catch exactly what I meant. I begin to wonder if by not speaking, risking giving offense in personal relationships, we don’t make the politician’s job much harder. Or God has to bring about a national/international piercing of conscience, an awareness of the evil.

Pseudoplotinus, I love the Youtube video on government regulation. Very funny and very true. My husband works with many small businessmen and women and they have exactly the same stories. You’d think people didn’t want new businesses to start.