Posted on 09/27/2017 9:18:44 AM PDT by pgkdan
Conservatives have long discussed the culture wars and why we have been losing them. Many have fought, and are fighting, for a resurgence of sanity in our culture.
Well, it’s happening in the strangest way. Two examples: 1. The sharp Hollywood box office decline. 2. The ESPN/NFL failure. Two abysmal failures of the cultural elite are occurring right before our very eyes.
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The only awakening going on is the recognition by a lot of Americans, probably a majority, that Hollywood is crazy, anti-American, and wrong. That is a major turn in the culture wars. For now, the left is alienating more people than they have energized. As Steve Bannon has suggested, let them keep prattling on, and Trump will keep winning. America can live without them.
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This is a turn in the culture wars, and it is unexpected. Trump is perhaps the least ideological cultural warrior in the Republican party. He had a gay entrepreneur address the GOP convention. He said he would allow Bruce Jenner to choose any bathroom she wants in Trump Tower. Frankly, he’s not known for winning the presidency because of his abortion stance.
Yes, he knows what he is doing when he opposes the NFL with the kneeldown against the national anthem. But no, he did not make them all so crazy -- they did that to themselves. Trump drives the leftist cultural machine crazy, just by being himself. The left can’t see how they are outing themselves as intolerant and over the top.
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forgot newspaper decline, magazine decline, and nightly news watching decline.
Liberalism kills everything it touches.
In short, Trump trolled the NFL and suddenly, we see clearly all those rabid Leftists come out of the woodwork.
Agreed, he's flushing the America haters right into the street and their walking right in front of the oncoming bus - how sweet it is.
To put it more simply, Trump may or may not support Judeo-Christian aspects of the culture war (abortion and homosexual marriage being the twin poster children), but he supports Americanism aspects of the culture war, and in this he is joined by a majority of the American people. As ashamed as I am to admit it, it is easier to convince Americans to honor the flag than it is to honor marriage or the lives of the preborn.
Every kneeldown assures him of more supporters, and less for the ESPN/NFL industrial complex.
Today it is up to 39.4 million.
Trump is very good at getting people to reveal who they really are.
I don’t know if, or believe that, this will hold true for the long term. But one good side effect of this, for now, is that the left is undermining its own major propaganda platforms. If only we could get academia back.
After the NFL comes MLB and NHL, they seem to want to follow this path.
Wonder how long before this social war becomes not so civil.
Trump is an agitator who raises the dark side of evil forces. Thank God we have a president who has awakened America to all the EVIL trying to destroy it.
Subsidizing the NFL with tax dollars is no different than funding ACORN. Both organizations are politicized for leftist causes, promote identity and tribal politics, and despise normal Americans. #DefundNFL
One good way to start getting academia back is to borrow a tool Obama used to shut down for-profit vocational colleges - no Federal funding or loans unless the institution can prove that a very high percentage of a degree program’s attendees find jobs in their field of study upon graduation.
Watch what happens to academia when they add “produce employment proof or perish” gets added to the classic “publish or perish”.
This is what truth does. 'PC' is the antithesis of truth.
How do you find that info easily? Just wondering.
My wife and I discovered Amazon Prime late last year. On it we discovered the entire Petticoat junction series for free. Every four episodes we watch is a new movie we didn’t watch.
Weird thing is that I noticed that time is not very kind to a lot of those older shows, but this one is a gem. Maybe we have low expectations, but we find we really enjoy watching it.
I’m sure there are others.
It is.
The left has over the past 4 decades, gained near total control of education (via their unions and grants to cronies), popular culture (movies and music), and the media (cable and broadcast TV). Only the internet, talk radio, and a few other aspects of our culture remain center-right, or at least somewhat balanced. Until recently, professional sports was one of the latter, where people of different political stripes could at least gather over a beer and cheer for the team they both love.
Given the tools at their disposal, it’s not surprising that the left started by weaponizing sports talk via their wholly-owned subsidiary, ESPN. Having achieved some success there (ESPN moving further to the left all the time), they’ve not turned to the players themselves. Many of whom (if we’re honest) are not smart enough or sufficiently educated to think beyond doing what they are told).
How do we win a culture war? Same way the left hopes to win against Trump: “RESIST”. We need to be at least as good at standing up (literally) for traditional values as they are at opposing capitalism, traditional man-woman marriage, revising history, and smearing their opponents with charges of racism, sexism, etc.
Are we up to the challenge?
The Left hate Trump because he’s shown the peasants that it’s OK to fight back when the sacred cows attack.
At the Cards MLB game Monday night. A few cubs players came out for the national anthem, while all the Cards players were on the field.
He has more Twitter followers than CNN
Excellent article (yes, I know it’s in the National Review, just read it!) that proves my arguments above:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451816/nfl-protests-trump-right
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