edwardware
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Well replied; I think I see how you got there, but I disagree with your first presupposition.. . .conservatives will lose that fight unless we relearn as a country how to do business with people who disagree with us. . . . But if more general goods and services companies decide to vote with their wallets and stop doing business with conservatives. . . We're in trouble.
If we conservatives (correctly Classical Liberals, including some Conservatives) really are the diminishing minority it sounds like you're picturing, then we have lost. It's over, give up, move somewhere else. I don't think that's the case. I think we are somewhere around parity with the really dedicated enemy (Statists of various stripes), and with the ignorant, and that we are slowly growing as the ignorant notice the fruits of Statism.
If we are a shrinking minority. . . this is ultimately a democracy and the minority will ultimately lose any political contest, as they should. If this is the case, hiding quietly and waiting for them to come for you isn't really a useful strategy; either fight if you think you can win, or leave if you think you can't.