KL said:
I don't think that anything will work until we break the leftist stranglehold on "education".
I don't see that happening. The liberal strangle-hold on education, or should I say academia, is there because, by and large, the more educated one is, the more questioning they areof certain things and the less likely they see complex issues as "black and white" simply because of "simple answers". Make no mistake, the major problem with the GOP is its catering to the Christian Conservatives, and the major problem with many of the CCs is that they really don't want to open their minds.
Gay marriage is just one such issue where minds are closed. If you are against it because a couple of passages in a book written over a 1000 years ago that is otherwise filled with instructions to "love each other", well, then, that's just in a word (or two), narrow-minded.
More liberals are in academia because liberals, on average, are more educated. There, I said it. Education breeds liberalism, not because there are liberal educators, but because knowledge and insight opens minds and that makes people question the "pat answers" that have kept them believing certain things their whole life.
If anyone thinks I am bashing others, or am an elitist, well, sorry. I am a Christian, and a Republican, but one with higher education and an open mind to the issues being discussed. That gets me labeled as a non-Christian and a liberal all the time. I actually hate that.
Many have left the Republican party and aren't voting Republican because the party has become a hijacked joke.
TJR