Bookworm has an excellent post about some very relevant stories the media chooses to ignore. Don’t just read her post, read the comments too. Her readers made some great observations…….

That is a good thing for me to keep in mind. I’m impatient.

I’m slowly losing my reticence in discussing political issues with friends and strangers. I’m not in their face but I’m more willing to throw in a comment or illustration of the consequences of leftist ideology and practice.

I guess it lets other kindred spirits know they are not alone and the less-than-kindred spirits know that their efforts will be resisted.

One thing I learned from my very brief flirtation with eastern philosophies was the so-called “water way,” which teaches that one of the world’s softest, least solid things—water—can wear away mountains if it is patiently and diligently applied.

I suggest that our “water way” be for all of us to take a few minutes each day to read and pass on the kind of one-page arguments and summaries that you describe. Even in places like my Marin County, where liberalism has metastasized, it is good for our “representatives” to know that there is an articulate and determined opposition that is beginning to coalesce.

I hear you loud and clear. I have NEVER dreaded turning on the news before. Never. I still turn it on but I have the same feeling one gets when they are opening a container of food that has been in the back of the fridge for months. You know you have to take care of it but it is going to make you retch.

I’m not sure if you were serious or joking, Charles, but I believe you are absolutely right. We conservatives MUST get very serious about identifying our targets and developing a dedicated group of people to focus all of their efforts on just one target.

We also need to address how to get your average citizen more involved. I do NOT believe that our lives should center on political activism but for a long time, conservatives have hated the government and therefore, have not been interested in it.

Well, now the government is interested in us and it’s frightening.

I keep thinking that there are a LOT of people who feel like we do but are overwhelmed with the responsibilities of their daily lives. These are not people who are familiar with the ins and outs of telling their congressmen/women what they think.

The same thought keeps going around in my head. I would love to see a very basic one-page publication that could be sent out to conservatives that would:

- be issue focused
- take NO MORE than 5 minutes to read
- identify WHY it’s a critical issue (and where they can access additional info if they wish)
- list what can be done AND provide an easy way for the person to do it.

(For example, if it is suggested that a letter be written to their congressperson, a link could be provided that automatically takes the person to the form that lets them e-mail their congressperson. The publication also could suggest one or two key points that reader could include in their e-mail.)

It has to be a targeted effort. Conservatives need to understand that we CAN have an affect on government and it does NOT require massive amounts of time and effort. We have to appreciate that people are simply overwhelmed. Even those who do this type of stuff for a living can’t focus on everything.

I don’t know. I’ve never done this sort of thing before. But I feel like the left has arrayed an army of activists who are PURPOSELY trying to overwhelm Americans to get their way.

I think they want to make us think that resistance is futile.

We should gather all of the great minds of the conservative movement—and there are hundreds of thousands of them—and assign them to respond to and handle particular outrages.

Thus, we could have a dedicated Anti-Semitism Squad to handle Obama’s Jew-hatred, and a Balls-R-Us squad to handle his cowardice, and a Marx-Was-A-Smelly-Lazy-Assed-Woman-Hating-Mama’s-Boy Squad to handle idiots like Bill Ayers and Lani Guinier.

Nobody has to extend his protests beyond his narrow specialty, knowing full well that other good minds are taking care of the other topics. That way none of us feels that he has to trundle about addressing the endless, apparently inexhaustible, inanities and stupidities of the left.

I would be happy to organize this grand conspiracy, but will require a retainer.

I think I do — “outrage fatigue”….. I’m serious about this — after one after another after another of these absolute outrages, I find myself mentally throwing up my hands in despair and exhaustion! I don’t have the energy to react, anymore…..

Dangerous, it is. One hopes that there are others out there who are capable of continued activity in the face of this deluge. A lot of very important things that affect all of us are riding on this.