Posted on 04/10/2015 10:53:16 AM PDT by Kaslin
Except that pockets of resistance are appearing. The response to the Chik-Fil-A boycott was the first. Then Gamergate, which is STILL going. The 800+K raised for Memories Pizza, and the petitions to Apple to stop doing business in Saudi, et all. And most recently, the Sad Puppies campaign in Science Fiction.
The tide is turning. Have faith. . .
I try not to plan things out of spite... it just paints me into a foolish looking corner.
My perspective is that old rule about insanity is doing the same thing again and expecting different results.
Whenever a person tries to fix a problem they analyze the different options and choose the option with the highest likelyhood of success while also considering the cost of exercising the option.
If it wasn’t for the fact that voting is absurdly easy, I wouldn’t do it. It’s virtually pointless today.
It wasn’t always this way, but times change.
What is American Corporatism?
Frontpagemag.com, 13 Sept 2002
socialism for the bourgeois [elites]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1036236/posts
” What is American Corporatism?”
See Democat Party
See Establishment Party(formerly Republican)
Most of what matters in politics isn’t even voting. It’s in grooming and fielding candidates.
Defiance of the ‘stapo’s is beginning to appear. It needs appropriate venues. Sooner or later a campaign planner is going to get this down to near a science.
Defiance of the ‘stapo’s is beginning to appear. It needs appropriate venues. Sooner or later a campaign planner is going to get this down to near a science.
... and if a certain group gets dissed, they ought to be reminded that most people still tended to be live-and-let-live and would have stayed that way; it was they of the group who played chicken. No reference to the famous CFA of course.
I agree. I washed my hands of the GOP years ago. I register (where it's available) as a "U" or "Undeclared."
I don’t know whether to say, “Bravo” or “Who am I to judge”?
Easy. In the immediate aftermath of WWII, say 30 years, the generation that fought it regarded that great convulsion as: The Worst That Could Happen, while anything else was a tempest in a teapot. How excited do you get about little nibbles at the culture when you've been to the biggest show in the history of the world and you've had about all you could stand of slaughter, butchery and sheer barbarism on an industrial scale?
WWII generation was never the “greatest.” They brought in the debauchery that the Boomers ran with. The greatest generation was always identified with that of the Founders. All other generations are a pale reflection, at best.
Yeah, I can buy that.
Frankly, I think that a small band of articulate & determined Conservatives, with enough financial support to get the word out, could take over what is otherwise clearly headed for the scrap heap of history. You do not need financial support comparable to what the so called "establishment" can muster; just enough to start & then manage a ground swell, that will respond to the factual betrayal of conscience that Pat details in this article.
Congress and most State Houses are largely ignorant of things that were clear as day to the Founders.
....Yet the WW 2 generation was called “the greatest generation” most likely for the reason in that they stood up and sucessfully defeated the facists.
Great success eventually makes countries self-indulgent, which is what happened to America over the last 60 years or so.
Explain to me, Gamergate? I see this on Breitbart, and don’t get what the deal is.
With enough Hispanics, they can start their own party. Do you know many who look forward to being ruled over by the likes of Sharpton? Do they really like Obama?
I'm hoping for a splintering of political parties, when the GOP can't deliver the voters they then sell out.
Think four parties--La Raza Progresiva, DemCommies, Tired Old Party and Conservative Republican. Do you think we'd have a chance then?
“We must fight back against evil no matter the seemingly desperate odds.”
That requires that so-called conservatives get off their fat butts and do things like get involved, including showing up at village and county board meetings, and, heaven forbid, donating a good bit of their holy Mammon stash to patriot causes.
Gamergate started when a guy found that his girlfriend, a game developer with mediocre games but great reviews, found out why she was getting great reviews: she was sleeping with reviewers and editors at the game magazines and sites.
Gamers demanded ethics in game journalism, but feminists saw this as attacking women, since “most gamers” are men. That’s actually not true, women DO tend to play different games, and in different ways, than men, but it was all the opening that the grievance feminists needed.
Actor Adam Baldwin, a gamer himself, dubbed this whole brouhaha “#gamergate”, and a hashtag was born. It then spun up fully into grievance mode, some “feminist” game devs (Anita Sarkeesian, notably) claiming there were threats of violence and even death against her.
Now, any time conservatives, males, or worse still, conservative males, criticize women in the arts, someone inevitably trots out “Gamergate”. It’s sort of an update to Godwin’s Law. . .
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