The problem is that we think the country can be put right by electing the right person.  Truth is, the culture elects the president, not the president forges the culture.  We are in the VERY difficult position of having to change the mind of the people so that next time they won't be so easily duped by fear-mongering and class warfare.  We should be smarter than to fall for Obama's divide and conquer strategy.  If he can tell us that the rich are uncool, implying that anyone who turns a profit is inherently immoral somehow... had a conversation with a recent college grad (VERY intelligent fellow) who insisted that a kickback to Solyndra is no more corrupt than granting licenses to an oil company to drill on federal land.  I tried for an hour to explain it to him, and he never did see the difference.  It is because in each case the company in question is making money from governmental decisions.  It doesn't seem to make any difference if it is money directly given through crony stimulus loans or profits made after bidding, paying for the proper permits, then doing work and selling the product.  No matter - it has to do with ANYONE getting ANY money for ANYTHING.  What has happened to our ability to make sense of things?

So there needs to be some serious work done re-introducing our present generation to Western civilization with all its accomplishments:  free-markets, limited government, and the Protestant work-ethic, as well as the literature, art, music, and architecture, and underneath of all, the supernatural worldview.  Fact is, the "Great Conversation" of academia is only possible when we all embrace a Christian view of the world.  Have a look at Andrew Klavan's support of this point in his article for City Journal:

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/eon1107ak.html

The White House will be forever lost to conservatives unless we can convince the majority of our population that there is more to life than cradle-to-grave, Brave New World comfort and entertainment. To do that, we are going to have to show them another way, and it will cost us some of our comfort and entertainment.

In July of this year, we posted this:

Here’s how it will happen: Some Christians will stand up against the tyranny of raw power and in favor of freedom for our citizens, and they will be martyred by the present political machine.  Then, all eyes will turn to the people of our country - what will they do?  and the country will either stand or fall with their response.  Will we side with those who choose power over principle, or those who choose to die rather than compromise their principles?  The former will live as cowards in a tyranny, the latter will die as heroes.  Not much of a choice, is it?  No more middle ground, living comfortable lives.  

Today it has begun.  Our country has voted, and it has chosen the wrong side.  We have said that we want the government to take care of us rather than we ourselves.  We will become economically bankrupt.  We will see in the next four years (perhaps right away) the limitations of freedom on religion, further erosions of freedom of speech, and the further corruption of the media, the free markets, the university, and the American dream of self-reliance that established the Constitution.  We had one last chance to say "no!" to tyranny, and we chose to embrace it.  Nations come and nations go.  Our experiment in self-government has gone now.  The Founders' dream of a Godly self-reliant people with a limited government that works for the people, not the other way around, is no more. We now will see tyranny like we have never seen, and we will work for it.  Our Republic died today.