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7 Reasons Conservatives Are Losing the Culture Wars
PJ Media ^ | 03/05/2019 | John Hawkins

Posted on 03/05/2019 8:57:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 03/05/2019 8:57:40 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

1. Biblical Illiteracy


2 posted on 03/05/2019 8:59:37 AM PST by dartuser
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To: SeekAndFind

I would say the number # 1 reason is a corrupt media.


3 posted on 03/05/2019 8:59:51 AM PST by IC Ken (Stop making stupid people famous)
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To: SeekAndFind

That’s some tough preaching. Hard to handle, but for the most part true.


4 posted on 03/05/2019 9:00:30 AM PST by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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To: SeekAndFind

One reason, there is not a lick of integrity or fight in any elected republican. Trump stands alone.


5 posted on 03/05/2019 9:00:35 AM PST by JoSixChip (Trump stands alone.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why are marriage and church compressed into the same #1 issue?


6 posted on 03/05/2019 9:01:40 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Believing lies gets you killed by a lion {God} in the bible.)
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not an accident all these forces have been attacking America simultaneously.


7 posted on 03/05/2019 9:02:24 AM PST by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The left has infested every public facing entity that is why have lost the culture war. News, entertainment education social media all of it.


8 posted on 03/05/2019 9:02:37 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: SeekAndFind

but how to fix these things?


9 posted on 03/05/2019 9:05:33 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: SeekAndFind
What have we done to get more people back in the church?

Start tinkering with basic church teachings as if we were trying to tailor a marketing campaign for a consumer product. This has been an EPIC FAIL!


10 posted on 03/05/2019 9:06:49 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: gibsonguy
all according to plan ....

Gramsci was a genius ...

11 posted on 03/05/2019 9:07:38 AM PST by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jimmah Carter paid off the teachers’ union with the Department of Education. They took over the public schools, de-emphasizing math, science, history and civics, and shoving socialism and feel-good in its place.

Look at our milleniels. They think they are entitled.


12 posted on 03/05/2019 9:08:12 AM PST by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: gibsonguy

We lost the culture war because we never fought the culture war.

Any time any non leftists tried to fight the culture war, “conservatives” would scream and holler about how that “makes us just as bad as them!” and undermine the effort, back stab the people trying to fight back and cheer the destruction of those fighting for their own side.

Conservatism has been, for the most part, a home for moral cowardice. People using a pretense of “goodness” to hide their craven knee crawling incapability of fighting for their own survival and a desperate, degenerate need to suck up to the enemy by attacking those who stand up to fight for them.


13 posted on 03/05/2019 9:09:29 AM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: faithhopecharity
Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton 2,626 to 487 in the number of counties taken in the 2016 election

The Left has been making noises about doing away with the Electoral College. Just count the popular vote instead.

But wouldn't it be interesting to keep the Electoral College and have it operate at the county level rather than the state level? Trump wins 2,626 to 487 and urban centers have virtually no impact on presidential elections.

That doesn't fix the culture, but it wouldn't hurt.

14 posted on 03/05/2019 9:11:05 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: SeekAndFind
If conservatives actually let their values guide where they spend their money the same way that liberals do, the open liberalism of the entire entertainment industry would change overnight.

I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree on that point. From what I am seeing our opponents would gladly lose buckets of money rather than concede one inch in the culture turf war.


15 posted on 03/05/2019 9:12:32 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind; Salamander

Actually aside from the sexuality, Game of a Thrones very much emphasizes character

The Starks and Jon Snow exemplify it.

As do Khalessi and her dutiful followers and the Lannisters who’ve seen the right path

Even Dog has changed his ways and has a conscience

This writer doesn’t know the series

Triumph of good over evil is the show basically

It’s a morality play

Sort of Kurosawa meets medical fantasy and end times at the hands of the supernatural

Breaking Bad was more nihilistic


16 posted on 03/05/2019 9:13:37 AM PST by wardaddy (Progressive winter is coming.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

ha!
yes, interesting...
the cities have been where most cultural and social (and political) decay, deterioration, degeneracy occurs.. for many, many years...
nobody’s figured out how to prevent, reverse, fix it


17 posted on 03/05/2019 9:14:12 AM PST by faithhopecharity ( “Politicians are not born; they are excreted.” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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...Big Daddy government is turning us all into children who are surrendering large portions of our autonomy, responsibility for ourselves, and accountability for our decisions. The more we allow government to paper over the bad lifestyle choices that people make, the harder it is for people to see how damaging certain attitudes and cultural choices can be.

If government removes the 'natural consequences of bad choices' those self-indulgent irresponsible choices 'aren't that bad'... and THAT'S THE PROBLEM.

18 posted on 03/05/2019 9:15:30 AM PST by GOPJ ("Newspeak": Republicans lie, Democrats misspeak. Democrats plan, Republicans scheme. Howie Carr)
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To: Drew68

For your interest.


19 posted on 03/05/2019 9:16:07 AM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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ogunsiron a on forum said yesterday:

”I personally think it's a monumental failure that republicans can't even get organized and respected enough to be able to walk around in a maga hat unmolested everywhere in the USA. I think it's an abject failure that the Trump admin does not have the back of its biggest fans.

It's a very sad state of affairs for conservatives that they are so incapable of sticking together that they can't make it OK to be openly displaying loyalty to POTUS and the political option of around 50% of the USA population.

The democrats call you all racists and that's all they need to do and it works every single time.”

20 posted on 03/05/2019 9:19:22 AM PST by coaster123 (Bring back the curtsy. - If one is alive one is privileged.)
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