Battle Plan

We need a political battle plan.

What should we do to combat social conservatism? It is a battle that is won every generation by the social liberals, whether they be the emancipators of the civil war, suffragists for the right to vote, or today's gay marriage activists.

The social zeitgeist continually turns more and more liberal, if history continues itself--but there must always be fighters to lead the pack such as Thomas Jefferson (and all the rest of the founders), Bertrand Russell, Abraham Lincoln, or Martin Luther King Jr.

Although they only had the gist of what their plans for social change would cause or entail, they most certainly had plans. And we must have plans too, if our movement is to succeed.

There are many questions to tackle, and I want to start by asking only two.

What kind of change should we focus on? Today, religion is the primary force behind virtually all the ideas of social conservatives--but the fact that there are quite a few religious liberals casts doubt on the opinion of many of us--that religion is the most important battleground in today's political world.

How do we instigate social change? Support for liberalism can only be gradually fostered. The Reconstruction Era society of America could not possibly be ready for the civil rights acts of the 1960s, but today we look at those changes with pride. Society had only passed approximately three generations, and yet so much change had occurred. Today, we must write books, make movies, and of course, get some openly non-religious politicians into our governments. So what else, and how will we do it?