That's for sure!
Liberalism, according to the author takes the form of those who are relentless zealots in their beliefs, are openly hostile, unapologetically discriminatory against conservatives, take no prisoners in doing whaever it takes to further their cause,the more liberal respondents to whether they would discriminate against conservatives were, the more willing they are to discriminate.
I don't want to overstate the case but liberals are not unlike Muslims who use very similar tactics in gaining the upper hand and ultimate control and by the use of Taqiya where Muslims are permitted to lie about their intentions if it furthers the cause of Islam.
The author calls contemporary media, academia by the term 'Zombie' to mean that the media, academia were morphed by liberalism takeover of these institutions as if liberalism was pathological like a virus.
In my opinion, the hostility and zealotry employed by liberals as documented in the article to gaining control of the media and academia can be viewed from a pathological perspective, that liberals are affected by a pathology that is subtle yet palpable in the damage it has managed to cause, unleash on our society.
If we now understand how our media and universities first became bigoted and biased against conservatives, we can at long last begin to consider steps intended to affect a turning of the tide.
The author tells us that now that we understand why liberalism has managed to become biased and bigoted we should be able to affect a turning of the tide. I think the author is quite naive and misguided if he believes the turning of the tide against liberalism in academia and the media merely involves employing their own playbook against themselves, the main point is that they won because they were much more idealistic, dedicated to their cause, fought harder, played dirtier than conservatives are willing to do.
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If we now understand how our media and universities first became bigoted and biased against conservatives,
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good article!
but, if you want the root cause, and original “game plan”,
i’d go back at least to Gramsci...
this is an old evil...
The “WASP Elite” didn’t step-aside entirely. Much of the WASP elite became the leftist elite.
The WASP elite also transformed their own Churches too - that is why we see both the decline of mainline Protestantism, as well as these churches cheer-leading for gay marriage, socialism, etc...
I think you’ll find the beginnings of the left taking over academia in Hayden’s Port Huron Statement, about 1963, 4.
Work their way to the top and hire only people who think like you.
That has happened in my own family. It is particularly frustrating because conservatives see liberals as misguided or wrong, while liberals consider conservatives to be evil.
Why? Confucius say people who put money first seek greener pastures. Money is speech and employees listen.
That's for sure!
I’d read this but then I’d miss my office hours. Usually half a dozen students standing in the hall when I get there.
I don’t know how conservatives can win in academia. Certainly, it helps to fight back and not be intimidated. The Left hates that. But, the Radical Left has its teeth sunken deep into the body of academia and they have drained almost all the blood. How does one kill the Vampires known as Radical Communism, Radical Multiculturalism, Radical Haters of Liberty, Radical Anti-Christian Atheism and Radical Anti-Americanism? Please let me know. I am not in academia, but I would love to do whatever I can.
A good article, well worth reading. The comments after the article are also excellent. They are insightful and almost compose a second article on their own.
We’re now 25 years down the road from Allan Bloom’s classic, Closing of the American Mind. The situation described in that book has only metastasized since then. A whole generation has gone by. The revolutionaries threaten not only the life of the mind (which they’ve pretty much destroyed), but our whole society.
I work at a public high school and saw rage in my colleagues’ eyes when I remarked that I liked Sarah Palin. A few brought it up, inappropriately, several times in the months following that, though I refrained from discussing it again. They also felt compelled to tell other teachers and staff about my crazy views.
I am afraid to put a bumper sticker on my car for fear of reprisals.
Liberals have no God, so they make politics their religion to fill the empty hole. They are fanatic about it and become unhinged at the thought that they may be wrong about an issue. They hate the messenger, no matter how informed or reasonable.
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Conservatives were nowhere to be found during the Civil Rights Movement. That was a moral failure that gave the libs the high ground. How the “party of Lincoln” managed that feat should be the topic of some serious investigation by conservatives. Some will say, “But we helped vote in the Civil Rights Act”. So where were we in the years of struggle before that act was brought before Congress? Some will say, “But Martin Luther King was a communist”. So where was our non-communist civil rights champion?
At some point it simply must be faced by conservatives that the overwhelming strength of liberalism in academia, the press and entertainment constitutes a defeat. We were defeated, period.
How and why should be the subject of intense objective investigation. Start with the assumption that technology changes society. Add another assumption, that maybe we should have worked harder to bring the 3rd World into the modern age. We hand the lefties their causes on a silver platter.
At some point it must be faced that capitalism and monopolism are two different species of economic thought that should properly be considered enemies of one another because one leads to the destruction of the other. The anti-fascist, anti-globalists on Free Republic should understand that monopolism = state capitalism = fascism. Private monopoly, as typified by the NON FEDERAL Federal Reserve is a cancer that is killing us. The Golden Parachute mind set of boardrooms around the world constitutes a readyness and willingness to play fast and loose with ethics.
A course in ethics should be mandatory every year in every economics department in American universities.