Let’s face it: those of us on the social right have had our asses kicked in the culture war. We’ve lost pretty much every single battle on every front: our ranks our depleted and show no sign of growing in the near future. Abortion, gays, drugs- you name it, we’re losing. We are losing this war, I might add, in spite of the fact that we greatly outnumber the proponents of cultural liberalism.

This is not a new or original insight, to be sure, but it is one that bears repeating. The social conservative right has been reduced to little more than a joke, the perpetual Cassandra who warns of ruin (and it usually right), but who still always fails.

Tomorrow morning the first legal gay marriages in the United States will occur is Massachusetts. Shortly thereafter, all of the advocates of this practice who have, in recent months, become newfound lovers of Federalism will take to the airwaves all across the land to demand that Massachusetts gay marriages be recognized as valid in every state in the Union. Given the results to date, I have very little doubt that this crusade for the spread of moral perversion will be eminently successful and that, much quicker than anyone thinks, we shall have homosexual marriage everywhere.

After all, what the proponents of gay marriage have known all along is this: once these abominations are allowed to be done they will never be undone. The chance that gay couples, having been “married” will subsequently be “unmarried” by any court decision or Constitutional Amendment is essentially zero. Through a breathtaking array of deceitful and immoral tactics the enemies of all decent people have completed the destruction of marriage in such a through way as to make this a fait accompli. Gay marriage will happen all across America, whether the people want it or not, just as abortion has happened and just as drugs will, in the relatively near future, be legalized.

It is an advanced state of degeneracy which has allowed all of this to come to pass. How could those of us on the social ever been so naïve to believe that we could stop this when its taken us thirty years to get a law passed illegalizing a practice which is practically infanticide? The social left gets whatever the hell the social left wants and there’s nothing that we can do about it until the day of judgement comes, either when the Lord Jesus returns to the Earth or when enough of the great silent and moral majority of the people are pissed on enough to take to the streets.

As things stand, if we whine until the year 2035, we just might well get a law passed cutting off government funding for sex changes for eight year-olds which, I assume, we will then celebrate as a great victory in the forces against moral degeneracy. We are impotent in the face of our foes because they command the cultural high ground. The face of the homosexual in America is not the thirty-five year old man wasting away from a self-inflicted disease at public expense or a pervert preying upon children but rather the bubbly and lovable Jack on NBC’s Will and Grace. Most people don’t read books or newspapers or, for that matter, even watch the (propaganda-laced) news. They gather most of their opinions second or third-hand in the form of vague perceptions. Given this, the moment we lost the popular culture, we lost the culture war. Ten thousand first-rate sermons or well-studied op-eds have less worth in this battle than a single popular movie or television show.

There is only one hope for ultimate victory over the forces of perversion, and it is a long-shot at that. We must emulate the extremely successful tactics of the left and enact a Gramscian “long march through the institutions” or our own. We must gradually take over and subvert the institutions controlled by the left and then use that power to bludgeon a reluctant people into accepting our point of view. We must lie, we must cheat: we must do whatever it takes to win.

The first step towards this end is the abandonment of far-reaching goals. Conservatives need to emulate the left and reveal their real agenda piece-by-piece instead of bring up front about things.

Look at the battle for gay marriage. It didn’t happen overnight- it happened through a series of deliberately incremental and reasonable-sounding steps with the left all along denying that the destruction of marriage was their final goal. Think back a few decades. All they wanted to do was to the let the poor and unfortunate gay live in peace without fear of being arrested for “being themselves.” Who could say no to that? Then they “only” wanted to ban “discrimination” in the workplace and then “only” to allow gays to enjoy employer benefits. “Only,” was their watchword. It was the careful adopting of the Hitlerian practice of the “last demand” that allowed the steady march of the advocates of perversion.

Rather than call for the banning of abortion, conservatives should declare themselves to be pro-abortion, only believing that it is medically necessary that some minor anti-abortion step be taken in the public interest. By moving quickly towards an all-our ban on abortion we unite the left. If we were to make a constant effort to disclaim any intent to ever ban abortion, we would have an easy time of picking up a few wavering individuals on the left. Then, with a sufficient passage of time, we could take the next step, all the while angrily declaring that we have no intent of doing exactly what we plan to do. This may not be honest but, as the left has demonstrated, it works very well. This is especially true because the hard-core opponents of any movement are usually the ones best-equipped to understand that their enemies have a hidden and deeper agenda behind their transient objective- a fact which “moderates” of all types seem to be utterly incapable of comprehending. Thus, when those bright enough to see the truth manage to shout it out, they can be ridiculed for their honesty.

The real key to any of this will be to consciously infiltrate and, eventually, take over the media as a prelude to the conquest of popular culture. The politics of celebrities are, as much as I hate to say it, somewhat consequential. After all, everyone knows who Brad Pitt is- whereas no more than a handful of people know who John Ensign is. Politicians matter very little to the average American and, in general, their views matter less. Most people who bother to vote do so on the basis of half-remembered distortions and vague prejudices. For every well-read and studied voter of any ideology there are another ten voters like the woman who was going to vote against Barry Goldwater because he was going to take away her TV (when, in reality, he wanted to abolish the Tennessee Valley Authority or TVA).