Where is The Collective Alternative Voice?

Where is The Collective Alternative Voice?
By Rev. Wayne Perryman

While Republicans prepare to spend hundreds of millions on yard signs for the 2010 congressional and local races, the popularity of their party continues to decline and their conservative message continues to fall on deaf ears. What’s going on? Where is the collective alternative voice to challenge the changes that’s taking place?

Some may say, Rush, Newt, Hannity, Beck, Coulter and Ingraham are speaking out. But they fail to realize that the only ones who listen to these individuals are persons who either love them or love to hate them. While the conservatives are preaching to their choir, the liberals are preaching to the masses - in the general population.

1. When President Obama said that we are not a Christian nation, where was the collective alternative voice to give the President and our nation a history lesson on how the Christian faith shaped our nation, our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution?

2. When President Obama apologized to Europe for America’s past mistakes, where was the collective alterative voice to remind him and the general population of the millions U.S. soldiers (both young and old) who fought for Europe’s freedom and/or the black soldiers who gave their lives for the same but were denied equal rights when they returned home?

3. When President Obama removed (lifted) the ban that placed a limitation on Stem Research, where was the collective alternative voice to remind the general population that our current Stem Cell research, has not proven to cure any of the diseases that people are hoping for?

4. When various states approved same sex marriages, where was the collective alternative voice (particularly from leaders like TD Jakes, Bishop Charles Blake, Joel Osteen and Rick Warren) speaking out against this type of legislation?

5. When President Obama said we are not at war with the Muslim faith, where was the collective alternative voice to tell the world that we are against those who use their Muslim faith to kill others or that we were the ones who sent our young men and women to Bosnia and spent billions of our tax dollars to defend and die for the Muslims who were being slaughtered through ethnic cleansing.

6. When President Obama and Governor Paterson of New York said they wanted a special tax to go after the millionaires, where was the collective alternative voice to tell the hip hop artists, rock stars, Hollywood stars, the MBA Players, the NFL Players, and Major League Baseball Players that this means the government is coming after them, not just a few rich Republicans?

7. When President Obama said he wanted the government to partner with the automobile industry, the banking industry, the health care industry and Wall Street to assure their success, where was the collective alternative voice to tell the general population that the government needs to first focus on all of the inefficiencies and cost over-runs within its own government agencies before they try straighten out or help out private industry.

The problem that Conservatives face today is that they have no strong collective alternative voice to speak to the general population. Conservatives speak to each other in e-mails and private conservations and our conservative talk show hosts speak to their constituency on radio and cable T.V., but none of us are reaching those who need to hear what we have to say. Over the years, we have spent billions on yard signs and posters that we either burn or recycle after the elections, we do so without recognizing that the yard signs only identify who not to vote for- they do not provide the critical messages that the people need to hear.

If only one person is speaking publicly, while the other is speaking privately - only one voice will be heard by the general population.

The coward conservative, must take on courage and collectively speak up and speak out or they will have no voice at all.

Rev. Wayne Perryman
http://www.wayneperryman.com