Try looking for some commonality here.
Posted on 03/25/2018 2:34:08 PM PDT by Liberty7732
It’s stunning how thoroughly the American Left dominates every lever that moves the American culture, that shapes the broad narrative and forms public opinion — and yet it does not dominate in either the elections or in polls on self-identification.
While it is amazing Republicans can ever win in such an environment of dominant cultural institutions being leftist and Democratic, this is actually wildly good news.
It means, unbelievable enough, that Americans are still strongly resistant to the kind of collectivist, subservient mindset that is rampant in an ever-diminishing Europe. It means that while Americans are not exactly of the hearty 19th century settler style anymore, we still value our individualism and liberties and recognize America truly is an exceptional nation.
This is the only conclusion given the level of propaganda being waged.
The traditional and still dominant news media, virtually every college campus, public schools, Hollywood and the music industry are all hardcore Leftist institutions and have been for many decades. Their propaganda has driven enormously damaging trends in the country and the acceptance of self-harming activities as normal.
But even with this tsunami of public movers, Leftist core ideals seem unable to ratchet off course the basic metal of the average American. Consider, at this moment, the President of the United States is Republican, the U.S. Senate is Republican, the U.S. House is Republican, 32 state legislatures are Republican and 33 governors are Republican. At every level of government, Republicans have majorities. They may not be all that conservatives want, but they are the only party representing traditional American values and norms.
Now, however, with new technologies, another wave of Leftist inculcation of the masses is apparent in the big social media conglomerates. Facebook, Youtube and Twitter have all been more and more openly putting their fingers on the scales to favor liberal content creators. And, much more actively and effectively as a propaganda tool, they are suppressing opposing views of conservative creators.
For instance, Youtube last year began the adpocolypse, demonetizing conservative sites so no ads would show, and further, restricting their viewing. This included such mainstream conservative sites as PragerU, which is suing the giant video-sharing platform. Now, however, Youtube has gone further by actually closing accounts, in the beginning of what looks like a purge. These have been mostly alt right accounts, but they also suspended generally conservative sites, such as Steven Crowder’s.
This activity by the social media giants all falls under the rubric of “offensive speech” policies. These policies are heavily tilted toward liberal speech only. Anything anti-Muslim is offensive speech, anything anti-Christian is free speech. Opposition to normalizing gender confusion is offensive speech, pro gender confusion is free speech. You get it. Needless to say, liberal accounts are largely unaffected, which is the point of these policies.
Twitter has been doing it longer. Facebook was caught cooking its “trending” list into liberal trending, and now they and others are trying to clamp down on “fake news.” Of course, fake news is almost totally subjective. So they are using liberal dominated organizations such as Politifact, Snopes and the extremist leftist organization Southern Poverty Law Center (which considers organizations with traditional Christian beliefs as hate groups) to determine what is fake news.
And despite this smothering level of propaganda, at every level of influence on American life, the party most closely aligned traditional, conservative ideals is dominant right now? Surely there will be a swing back toward Democrats because that is the history of the United States. But considering all, how is this even possible?
The only answer is that a strong vein of our founding truths still runs through most Americans.
Patriotic and Christian movies consistently do very well, despite being constrained by lack of capital, advertising and screen showings. American patriotism — at its best representing the unique goodness that is America, even with all her flaws — still thrives. Christianity has not yet gone the way of Europe and remains a mighty force in American life. Individual American generosity (not government grants) remains unparalleled in the world. The desire for freedom, for Americans and for others remains so strong it can lead us down wrong paths, such as nation-building. But the impetus is uniquely American, and good.
Things may yet change for the worse. As the great philosopher Yoda said, “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future.” Yet it should be an encouragement to all who understand America, her foundations and her significance to the welfare of the world, that all has not been lost in this liberal onslaught on the culture.
Americans remain a unique people in an exceptional nation.
Politics follow the culture.
And the culture is dominated by the Left.
The youth identify with the Left and are unabashedly totalitarian.
I’m old and represent the past and not the future.
I fear for my country. There are bells clanging in the night.
None of the omens are good.
The youth identify with the Left because they are free of responsibility and learn to point he finger and blame
American family values and morality are becoming a thing of the past. The Republican Party is The Stupid Party / Gutless Old Party. The libs hand us campaign rhetoric in their own words (“Guam will capsize”) and we fail to leverage it. Stupid and gutless.
Ours is a minority viewpoint in the culture.
There is no use masking the truth.
Conservatism is a series of concessions and surrender to the cultural zeitgeist.
The Left has won the cultural wars. Abortion and marriage are things on we have been defeated.
And they will come for our guns. Its a matter of time.
Above all, we’ve been fortunate to be free as long as we have been. But that not the natural tendency of mankind.
America may not remain the exceptional nation as we would like to believe.
Our nation was established as Christian.
https://christianheritagefellowship.com/when-the-united-states-capitol-was-a-church/
Progressivism is from the devil.
http://disinfo.com/2008/09/progressive-satanism-satanic-insurance-or-an-cult-2/
By featuring the insane rally speakers with their screeching-hyena shouting yesterday, the media turned millions of viewers into anti-student/pro-gun supporters. They are clueless.
And yet, there was a thread here on FR within the last week declaring that there are a number of schools around the Nation wher the student are DEMANDING that prayer be brought back. An outgrowth of allowing muslims to pray 5 times daily.
The Hollywood remakes are so soulless I can’t stand them just for how bland they are? What would give me any reason to own those remakes when they already bore me out.
Ah, the land of unintended consequences. I like it there.
CC
I heard this guy on the radio a week ago. He supposedly correctly predicted Trump’s win and accurately forecast every state outcome. He’s predicting a coming conservative trend.
http://greatnewsforamerica.com
Who will be right, you or this guy? Probably someone in the middle.
And yet, in real life, traditional values are completely dominate in everything I see and experience. There is a real disconnect somewhere in there.
It’s pretty obvious to any thinking person that most of these protesters are a bunch of mindless sheeple zombies.
Focusing specifically upon the headline: “Leftists Own Every Propaganda Tool — Yet Cannot Win Over Americans” it seems to me that propaganda is BS, and BS is what it is.
One can own all the BS in the World, but in the end it is simply BS no matter the shade of pink.
Try looking for some commonality here.
Corruption of any organization flows downward. Children do not corrupt families, nor do employees corrupt companies.
The first corruptor of the American republic is the Scotus.
My section of my generation (gun owners homeschooled kids) aren’t asleep...we are sizing up our enemies (the indoctrinated students) to fight for America...just because we aren’t there at the protests, it isn’t that we aren’t bothered, but we are going to surprise them...Conservative teens are around, but we are listening to soluntions, not making problems...
I stole this from reddit, but totally agree. We can stop this nonsense if we would stop being so afraid of being called names. The deep state would have to stop these BS shootings, if we would just expose them. We already know the Garland shooting had an undercover FBI agent involved. When are we going to start calling them out on this crap.
This is absolutely ridiculous. The Parkland shooting survivors continue to organize rallies, marches, and demonstrations day after day. We know the real truth, but we aren’t doing anything about it.
We have 3 or 4 students who stated that there was more than one shooter. One of them was in line with Cruz.
We have a teacher and a student who stated that they were told to expect a drill with blanks being fired.
We have a report that the Secret Service visited the school weeks before the shooting to change their policies.
We know that the surveillance videos had been programmed with a 27 minute delay.
We have another teacher that states the shooter was wearing metal, bullet-proof armor from head to foot (with some type of exotic gun) while Cruz was never seen in such armor.
We know all four sheriff deputies were ordered to stand-down during the shooting.
AND WE HAVE A VIDEO CLEARLY SHOWING THE REAL SHOOTERS SNEAKING OUT THE BACK DOOR WITH ALL THEIR EQUIPMENT!!!!!
“My section of my generation (gun owners homeschooled kids) aren’t asleep...we are sizing up our enemies (the indoctrinated students) to fight for America...just because we aren’t there at the protests, it isn’t that we aren’t bothered, but we are going to surprise them...Conservative teens are around, but we are listening to soluntions, not making problems...”
Well, that’s encouraging!!! I wonder how many of you there are....
Keep it up!
No, the Controlled Opposition party.
They are Trotskyist globalists (Neocons). They want us to think they are craven or incompetent.
They are laughing at us all the way to the nearest Multi-National Bank.
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