When I say "far less well-traveled" I mean unadventurous - it's too lazy to infiltrate cultural institutions that are dominated by The Left; having little to no interest in the interests that tend to be plagued by modernism. As I discussed on neo-neocon's site (I apologize for missed words - my mind tends to move faster than my typing hands):
GRA Says:
September 24th, 2015 at 12:14 pm
Conservatism dearly needs people who have sophistication – I wouldn’t say the educational pedigree that many on the left have – but it needs to evolve into an urbane image, both inside and out. We sorta have that in some of the current GOP candidates, but The Right needs more and such people need to take over the current GOP party, and for good.
Too long have conservatives wanted to be “left alone” and with this attitude have failed to engage in the world, when need be. And when they do it’s often times awkward and embarrassing. Take a lesson out of the left: infiltrate society’s institutions with the pedigree and slowly gain authority, but given how the American conservatism works it’ll twice as long as the left slogged away when they gained entrance.
September 24th, 2015 at 2:22 pm @ GRA: that’s sort of what conservatism is – the people who want to be left alone and have a life. We have businesses, families, charities, houses, and hobbies that we want to put our time into. What you say about engaging the culture is absolutely true, but it is never going to happen. When things are going badly wrong in the country, we will each do our bit, but we don’t tend to be the indefatigable SJW’s obsessed with fixing everyone else so that the world “finally looks right.”
If we limited the franchise to married people who have raised two children to the age of eight, the Democratic Party would shrink to unimportant size. Those of you here who don’t fit that description fully would likely sign off on it once you saw the results.
Never gonna happen, of course. But it illustrates my point.
September 24th, 2015 at 4:40 pm Also articles like this one makes me think the “not conservative enough” types are low in gray matter.
https://www.conservativereview.com/Commentary/2015/09/7-reasons-voters-are-questioning-fiorinas-outsider-status
@ AVI: True, many are busy in those things you’ve listed. What I don’t see why there isn’t a hard push to fight for elbow room in the cultural institutions I’ve noted. Even the military is bowing down to “equality” and “inclusion” and losing its identity. Not all conservatives have the mentality to run a business and ironically, businesses that become corporations tend to support whatever social issue becomes the flavor of the months (LGBT). So even the land of suits and “bottom-line” are in bed with the social tide.
>>When things are going badly wrong in the country, we will each do our bit,
Too little, too late. If there’s one thing I admire about The Left is their feverish will to “win.” They got a plan and they execute it. Even if they achieve just 80% of their goal, it’s far more than what conservatives have done. Conservatives don’t have that, and if any there’s not enough to go around.
I just see it as immensely pathetic how The Left dominates cultural institutions. It truly is pathetic. If leftism the tide and conservatism is cliff getting pummeled by the tide, causing slow erosion, there’s talk how to fix the erosion but no agency. I don’t households with conservative values encouraging their kids to enter academia if they show an aptitude for such a thing; I don’t see conservative families encouraging their kids t become playwrights or writers in fiction if they show talent in expressing their thoughts on paper. I don’t see conservative families encourage their kids to work in the media, even with all the technology that surrounds their kids. I don’t see any of that. It’s the weird obsession with STEM and business (and business is growing more left every day).
When it comes to education, there seems to be a fundamental difference in philosophy: conservatives see college as job training (STEM) while the left sees it as a cultural pathway to further push whatever agenda. You don’t gain cultural influence through STEM – STEM is behind the scenes. For all the talk about gaining back the culture, conservatives need a new strategy because their aim is aiming at the wrong target. As I said, you fail to engage in academia, arts & entertainment and journalism and you lost half the battle.
“Politics is downstream from culture.” – Andrew Breitbart
You gain a firm footing in culture, you can effectively change the culture – while not being the laughing stock.