"Conservatism" has to be more than just a defensive posture

There are alot of reasons we lose. But one of our main issues is self imposed rule setting the right and conservatives have created for themselves, that we insist on following, while the left completely could care less about these boundaries. We are always going to be at an unfair advantage because of this.

Now, I am not advocating for the right to engage in immoral practices to achieve their ends, but we should work within the reality of the political system that is in place, and not the fantasy system that boomer, Reagan era Republicans dream up, that does not really exist and quite frankly, never has.

For example. In regards to the student loan situation. I would propose the Republicans actually use this as an opportunity to put forth their own agenda on this issue. We should propose to seize funds from the university endowments and use that to pay back the loans. We should use it as an opportunity to shut down all meaningless university degrees, and force these institutions to act more financially responsible and throwing money into lazy rivers and ridiculously fancy student housing.

With the abortion issue. We need to have a unified message going forward. I'm a staunch pro-lifer, but I recognize the political reality. Our message should be solely focused on providing personhood legislation. Until unborn children are classified as people, then we can never get off the ground on this issue. We should have Ammendment at every state level banning late term abortion, and requiring abortionists to provide informed consent on what is happening to the child inside the mother.

On the gun issue. Every red state should issue free AR-15s to any qualified citizen who receives a free gun safety program, that also goes into the 2nd Ammendment and the history behind it and why it is important. This should be marketed in blue areas, as a means to sell left leaning Dems on the imprtance of the 2nd Ammendment. Similar education should be happening in any tax funded school.

Similarly, why is the school system in red states so liberal? This should be low hanging fruit. Any State controlled institution in a red state should be right leaning to conservative at minimum.

These are all.easy and obvious steps, but dumbass Reps and boomer-cons are too twisted up with their mental gymnastics and muh "conservative principles" that do nothing but hamstring them. What good are these principles if they never achieve tangible results? The whole point of engaging in politics is to produce good outcomes. Not too sit around and find ways why nothing can be done.