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Boycott Leftism
American Thinker ^ | October 7, 2016 | Bruce Walker

Posted on 10/07/2016 8:49:11 AM PDT by Kaslin

The Achilles heel of leftism is its dependence upon conservatives and other normal people using the institutions of society that leftism has invested, and so providing the audience and income needed for the left to use against us. These institutions conspire against the normal operations of the marketplace by declining to ever compete by offering an alternative to leftism.

What this means in practice is that the networks, at least until Fox News, never, ever exposed the bias and the lies of competing networks when those biases and lies were part of an ideological message. What this means is that no academic institution exposes the totalitarian leftism of notionally "competing" institutions. What this means is that the insidious infiltration by the left into institutions of public life once truly neutral over time transforms these institutions into more robotic soldiers of the left.

Football is an excellent example of how this works. College athletic departments, which once did not care a hoot about political correctness, now have either cadres of the left as their spokesmen or have utterly cowed and terrified administrators who dare not say a word against the messages of the left.

The college football players who enter the NFL find the same insinuation of leftist cant into every crevice of professional football. Although the dopey former San Francisco 49ers' insulting behavior during the National Anthem is a conspicuous example of leftist venom, the cringing fear of offending the left seems to terrify everyone in football.

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To: Mears

There are exceptions to any rule, and perhaps I paint with too broad a brush, but I’ve observed what I’ve observed. It’s occurred to me over the years when I ponder this, that it was inevitable that an educational system controlled by government would eventually have politicized curricula. One would have to be blind not to see the results everywhere nowadays.


21 posted on 10/07/2016 10:02:08 AM PDT by VR-21
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To: VR-21

I think as a whole you are correct. That’s why many prefer homeschooling now. Too much PC in govt schools.


22 posted on 10/07/2016 10:08:41 AM PDT by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Kaslin

As a corollary, the Left relies on others tendency to “follow the rules” while the Left doesn’t.


23 posted on 10/07/2016 10:09:16 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
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To: Kaslin

I’ve been conducting a private boycott for years against entertainers, athletes, artists and politicians whose private lives offend my values. I am not a celebrity watcher. I tend to gravitate to news and discussion programs. However, when a celebrity inserts himself or herself into the news cycle concerning their private lives and are seemingly proud of it, then I add them to my blacklist. The leftists who remain silent are not on the list but once they start using their celebrity status to push their values on others, I will patronize them no longer. My list has expanded exponentially this election cycle.


24 posted on 10/07/2016 10:26:07 AM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: Kaslin
The Achilles heel of leftism is its dependence upon conservatives and other normal people

Leftists are concentrated in big cities and are highly dependent on conservatives for providing their food, water, fuel, electricity, and military protection. Steel and concrete cliff dwelling is just another technology being made obsolete by Goracle's internet invention. If it wasn't for the massive import of third world 'rat replacements many cities would have already drained out and gone bankrupt.

25 posted on 10/07/2016 10:29:24 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: DungeonMaster
1cor 5:9 I wrote to you in my epistle not to keep company with sexually immoral people. 10 Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

Be salt and light. Go and make disciples of all nations.

Knowingly fund those who take a public stand against the one true God? Not gonna do it.

26 posted on 10/07/2016 10:30:02 AM PDT by newgeezer (It is [the people's] right and duty to be at all times armed. --Thomas Jefferson, 1824)
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To: PGR88

The two approaches are not mutually exclusive. Actually they’re complimentary. End fiat AND boycott the leftscum.


27 posted on 10/07/2016 3:27:59 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (We're the little people. Act accordingly.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Destroying the left is a lifestyle. A Holy and Righteous calling.


28 posted on 10/07/2016 3:39:49 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (We're the little people. Act accordingly.)
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To: Talisker

End fiat and boycott the left. Very complimentary approaches to the same disease. Think of it as radiation and chemo to treat a cancer.


29 posted on 10/07/2016 3:42:20 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (We're the little people. Act accordingly.)
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To: Tench_Coxe

Blind Obedience is the mark of a slave.


30 posted on 10/07/2016 3:46:15 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (We're the little people. Act accordingly.)
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To: Mears

“Superb” and “government school” don’t belong in the same sentence. They’re state subsidized daycare. Welfare really. Aid to Families with Dependent Parents.


31 posted on 10/07/2016 3:48:51 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (We're the little people. Act accordingly.)
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To: Kaslin

Stop as much as possible giving money to people that hate you.


32 posted on 10/07/2016 9:13:58 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: RKBA Democrat

“Aid to Families with Dependent Parents.”

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The best public schools in MA are in suburbs with wealthy parents——they choose the public schools.

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33 posted on 10/09/2016 6:36:13 AM PDT by Mears
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