In my ongoing discussion with a socon I proposed a reverse Gramscian tactic. A return to Jesus if you will. As these discussions with that person often do the topic of drugs came up.
Well I don’t fear cocaine. I don’t fear heroin. I don’t fear LSD. I don’t fear marijuana.
I do fear big government.
I will work with anyone who will work with me to reduce it. Even if they only want to reduce parts. What I want to do is get people in the habit of reduction.
I want to get people out of the Progressive habit. “Government is the Solution.” My first step is to destroy the Progressives on the right. By your own admission I’m well along on that. The job should be completed well enough by 2014 to start rebuilding the Republicans on more libertarian lines. If that can be accomplished, by 2016 there will be a Party strong enough to take on the Communists.
I have no objection to the society you envision. If you can accomplish it without government guns.
Which reminds me of something I said here:
On social issues the socons should lead by example not government force. The persuasion of Jesus is better than the sword of Rome. If you are trying to get votes.
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America is a center right country. If I can attract those the government now attacks I believe I can reduce the Communists to impotence.
You see I have a plan. And I am executing. With success.
The Progressives on the Right are failures. I intend to put them into the dust bin of history. I AM putting them in the dust bin of history.
And when you are ready to ally with me I will welcome you. Smaller government. Everywhere and for all time. Or for as long as you can keep it.
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And then I stumbled on this link
Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition
Heh.
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Which lead me to make this comment:
The way to win is to do what Jesus did. Ally with the outcasts. That is the formula the left used to gain power. Reverse it on them.
A good first step would be to end “The War On Drugs”.
Which I further expanded here:
The Gramscians had a brilliant plan. Ally themselves with the outcasts of society to make the left strong.
I intend to do what Jesus did. Make alliances with and heal if I can the outcasts.
You see for all its prating about Jesus the right has in fact abandoned him for the love of power. I intend to bring the country back to HIM. To do that I have to destroy the Church and deprive it of all its adherents. The lovers of government and temporal power.
Update: 5 Feb 2013 0856z
Funny enough Social Conservative Cal Thomas agrees with me in his book Blinded by Might
Though people constantly tried to get him to do otherwise, Jesus never allow himself to be co-opted into the politics of this world. He rather testified to the truth that he was about an entirely different kingdom by letting himself be killed by the politics of this world! Never once did he enter into the politically charged atmosphere of his day by even commenting on the relative merits or vices of the Roman leaders. His mission was about something unrelated to what these leaders did or did not do.
Along similar lines, Paul reminds Christians to be followers of their heavenly Lord and not “to be occupied with civilian affairs” (2 Tim 2:4). And the author of Hebrews reminds Christians they are “aliens” in this world because they are “citizens of heaven.” When we follow the example of Jesus and live THIS calling out, we have a power to change lives and affect the world that is not of this world. We win the world back for God, one soul at a time.
Many, if not most, contemporary evangelicals have completely missed this. They sincerely believe that the battle is to be fought and won in the arena of earthly politics. Here is where Thomas and Dobson make their contribution. They “hit it out of the park”! These authorsl point out that evangelicals have come to do what Jesus never did, and what the Bible forbids us to do.
I got the book link from a commenter over at Bill Quick’s place
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5 responses to “Reverse Gramscianism”
I was over at some right-ish place recently where it was suggested the right needed its own Gramscian push, but it was objected to on the grounds that such an effort was necessarily dishonest.
Well that is the problem isn’t it.
The right lacks a heart and the left lacks a brain. And neither has the courage to change.
“The right lacks a heart and the left lacks a brain.” And that’s how the Wizard of Oz got elected.
” Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.”
Reforming the government has a tricky part: getting the politicians to go along. May I suggest indirection and flattery as the best means to a long-overdue end.
In any order you like:
No bill to be considered by the legislature should be over 20 pages, so it can be well considered in all its effects.
Laws can only be made by duly elected officials, not by regulatory agencies. Such agencies can make rules for their employees and enforce laws the legislators have enacted, only.
One month of each year should be spent going over old laws and repealing those that are outdated.
These ideas are not a direct assault on politicians; but the limit on the length of bills would make it harder to slip in extra twists and unrelated pork. The restraint on regulatory agencies is long overdue. As for the repeal of old laws, many article have been written about the need.
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