“Liberty cannot survive if only a few are eternally vigilant…We took our eyes off the colleges, and the high schools, and the grade schools, and these and many other institutions were coopted by forces deeply hostile to the American idea. So…[c}hanging the culture (the schools, the churches, the movies, the TV shows) is more important than changing the politics. An election is one Tuesday every other November. The culture is every day, every month, every year…Like Milton Friedman [said], don’t wait for the right people to get elected; create the conditions whereby the wrong people are forced to do the right thing.”
That was close to ten years ago. What’s the situation in 2020? According to Kay Coles James, president of the Heritage Foundation:
“National left-wing organizations are collecting and funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to flip local city councils, school boards, and county prosecutors’ offices to the left. They are flooding small elections with big money, and it’s giving them unprecedented influence over our local affairs and greater access to our chil ...
