Truth to power.
(Human Events) — Rep. Allen West (R.-Fla.) exhorted college students to “take back the soul of America” by transforming the political landscape, but encouraged them to maintain an “incremental” view of this job, at Young America’s Foundation’s National Conservative Student Conference this morning.
As a retired Army lieutenant colonel, West framed how students should approach fighting liberal ideology in military terms, particularly stressing the necessity of knowing one’s enemies and their tactics. . . .
“Conservatives have a problem with incrementalism,” he said. “We have to bide our time until we control all three branches.” He laid out the four key goals liberal progressives are working toward that conservatives must combat in an incremental fashion: nationalizing production, creation and expansion of the welfare state, creation of an utopic state, and creation of a secular state.
The best way to combat liberal ideology, West said, is with facts, calling liberalism “deceptive in its very core.” He said that at this point, the strongest facts conservatives can present should deal with the declining state of the economy.