I was out of town yesterday at a family event.\u00a0 I got to talk to some folks I haven\u2019t spoken to in years.\u00a0 And it was immediately clear that everyone was galvanized by the Roe v. Wade decision.\u00a0 It was all they could talk about.\u00a0 Even people who still didn\u2019t know what is going on in the country, people submerged in the New York city progressive bubble were animated and excited and thinking about further changes that the Supreme Court could enact.<\/p>\n
And this was in the belly of the beast.\u00a0 There were progressives everywhere I looked.\u00a0 But people were talking openly about which progressive law could be flipped next.\u00a0 Gay marriage, affirmative action, freedom of association and religious freedom were all being excitedly discussed while radical progressives were in earshot.\u00a0 There was an energy and an attitude.\u00a0 It was as if the Supreme Court had given us permission to speak the unspeakable.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing this is what it was like when the Soviet Union crumbled.\u00a0 No one had to be careful what they said about the government.\u00a0 They no longer had to pretend to love Big Brother.\u00a0 You could finally state out loud that 2 + 2 = 4.<\/p>\n
And so that is the revolution.\u00a0 It turns out that we could have been winning all along.\u00a0 All of these Republican judges and congressman and senators (and presidents!) were working against us all along.\u00a0 All it required was for us to elect someone who was actually on our side.\u00a0 All it required was for someone to actually want to win these things for us.\u00a0 All it required was someone to finally do something<\/strong>.\u00a0 And now even the sleepers are aware that something has been unleashed in the world that has been chained up for half a century.\u00a0 The normal people have suddenly experienced what representative government is supposed to be like.<\/p>\n Probably you\u2019ve often heard of the progressive program as a one-way ratchet.\u00a0 The powers-that-be have used a slow but steady escalation of progressive changes that always moves in one direction.\u00a0 Worse and worse and worse.\u00a0 Like a band around our chests constricting our breathing.\u00a0 But now it\u2019s as if someone has released the pawl and the gear has spun loose.\u00a0 All the tension is removed and we can breathe!\u00a0 And once you can breathe you can also think clearly.\u00a0 And you wonder how the hell did we end up this way?<\/p>\n If we\u2019re not idiots we should be thinking about how to prevent this from happening again.\u00a0 We should be looking at who stood by and watched all this going on and either was too stupid to fix it or was part of the plot to make it happen.\u00a0 In either case these are the people we need to blame.\u00a0 These are the people we must fire.\u00a0 Now admittedly, some of these sleepers who are finally becoming aware truly are too stupid to help themselves.\u00a0 I already was hearing them mention admiringly Nikki Haley and Kristi Noem as conservative women who could lead us to victory.\u00a0 At that point I walked away and looked for someone with at least half a brain.\u00a0 And that confirmed that indeed the \u201cconservatives\u201d are their own worst enemies because a very large contingent just don\u2019t have a clue.\u00a0 But that\u2019s fine.\u00a0 The 80\/20 rule says that eighty percent of the work is done by twenty percent of the group so all we have to do is find the two out of ten people with the sense to come in out of the rain and let them run the show.<\/p>\n