Liberal and Conservative

While the conservatives slept the liberals were hard at work. It started with George McGovern in the 1972 Presidential election. As the Democratic candidate for president he demanded that Convention delegates be representative of the country. This vastly increased the percent of women and minorities. They lost the election in a landslide but have profited by gaining voters in these groups. After the fiasco in the 1968 convention where they protested in the streets they made up their minds to work from inside the system and started pushing for liberal professors to gain tenure. They worked hard to elect liberals to school boards, county commissioners, city council members and state representatives. Once their people were in office they negotiated public union contracts that brought union workers into the fold. After the McCarthy era they infiltrated the entertainment industry. All of these 50 years of work paid off handsomely in the election of President Obama. Will the conservatives wake up and more importantly are they prepared to work hard for the next 50 years to explain to people why the trend toward bigger government will fail especially for those for whom it is intended to help?