Reagan’s Children Blog
Hans Zeiger and a cadre of other smart, young conservatives have entered the blogosphere. It appears the “silent majority” has found yet more voices to speak out on their behalf. We welcome them to the movement.
One Saturday last month, I attended two meetings. The first meeting was a Pierce County Republican Party Central Committee meeting. Most of the precinct committee officers and party officials were in their fifties, sixties, or seventies. They have been involved in Republican politics for years, and they are the valued grassroots that fought notably in my community for Reagan in 1980, for the Republican Congressional majority in 1994, and for Bush these last two elections.The second meeting, that afternoon, was younger. About thirty people, most in their twenties and thirties, gathered at the Pierce County Republican Headquarters to discuss the blogging revolution. Not everyone there would stand out at a PCO meeting, but most of them stand out in the blogosphere. An excitement spread the room as we bandied ideas and networked, and I sensed the same thing that so many Americans now sense, that a revolution is at our disposal.
I left the meeting inspired. And I decided to take up blogging myself, which I have just done with Reagan’s Children Blog at www.reaganchildren.com.
It is not with complete confidence that I commence blogging. The blogosphere poses questions that I have not yet sorted out, that perhaps by my posing of them here will generate some answers. For instance, the blogosphere seems to cheapen language. By equalizing the opportunity of everyone to post their rants and raves and daily activities and deep secrets, we hardly increase the output of quality literature. How in such a culture are we to encourage an educated and literary citizenry? Is the intelligent man to add his intelligent essay to a clutter of mostly unintelligent blathers, or is he to keep himself to the more traditional media? Will truth triumph in the blogosphere, or will it merely become lost in a postmodern trivia?
Like Reagan, we remain optimists. Read the whole thing.