Posted on 06/04/2019 4:39:58 PM PDT by Oklahoma
Moses and Aaron had the right idea. They got rid of all the unbelievers.
Death.
Ha..THAT’S what I was thinking
ML/NJ
Culture wars are inevitable and actually proper. It should be a civilized battle among different points of view held by individuals. The problem comes when the government uses its might to decide one is right and one is wrong and that it has the right to suppress what it defines as wrong.
But now also Google, Facebook, Instagram, Paypal, Patreon, MasterCard, etc. are deciding which one is right (i.e. the Left) and suppress what they define as wrong (i.e. conservatives and libertarians).
1) Have lots of kids
2) Encourage/plead with their kids to go into teaching, journalism, media, law, politics, etc.
3) Be willing to fight tooth and nail with the left establishment to allow their kids to get jobs in those industries.
If conservatives don't have control of the major institutions of a society then the people will be brainwashed by the Left.
Conservatives were OK with letting the lefties takeover everything besides business, because they thought business was a reasonable counterweight to everything else. But now we find that decades of youths going through leftist universities like Harvard and Yale have corrupted corporate boardrooms as well.
There is no place within the higher echelons of society for conservatives. Even during the Reagan administration, the Trotskyist neocons kicked the paleocons to the curb.
As the left would say: they have complete control over "the narrative" while the conservatives have lost the thread.
There are those that say rather than trying to regain control of the institutions we need to replace them with alternatives. Replace leftist colleges with right-leaning on-line courses. Replace K-12 with home schooling. Replace Google/YouTube/Facebook, etc. with conservative alternatives. But where is the money going to come from when most of those who become ultra-wealthy tend to also become more cosmopolitan in attitude?
Trump is conservative in many ways, but he is not a social conservative. Murdoch is just a freemarketeer. The Koch Brothers are no longer trustworthy, etc.
We can shut down the border for a start, but the elites seem be doing a great job of stalling Trump's efforts and may ultimately do an end run and put in some sort of amnesty if the Dims ever regain power.
I have mixed feelings about private corporations operating according to their own values. Mixed because too many of these corporations are quasi-monopolies, thanks to government largesse and discrimination. But even large companies would hardly impose their values forcibly if they were not assured the government would not look the other way when it agreed with the action.
When real conservatives are nearing actual victory, Rinos like Geraghty ride to the rescue and prematurely capitulate.
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