But "the MSM is keeping us down" rhetoric is defeatist. If the gays, for instance, can take over the newsrooms and shout conservatives down, it's because their opponents were incompetent or lazy enough to let them.
So since their triumph is a sign of laziness or incompetence, conservatives need to conduct a PR audit. Maybe we should have been flattering news editors and cultivating "pet" journalists and Hollywood producers instead of merely complaining about them.
Nope. It is, however, pretty clear that a change of tactics is in order.
It "began" 2000 years ago and it hasn't "ended" yet.
There has been an increase in secular humanism and some decadence and decline in certain religious organizations and communities. Part of this is media-driven.
Our culture in the '50s was fine because elders were respected and the place of man and woman in society is clear. Today the lines are blurred and that everyone looks out in their own selfish interest so......
Scholars may differ on the count and the dates, but here's one version:
First Great Awakening (c. 17301755)
Second Great Awakening (c. 17901840)
Third Great Awakening (c. 18501900)
Fourth Great Awakening (c. 19601980).
I suspect they're wrong about the last.
So far as I can tell the evangelical awakening started in earnest in the Seventies and was going strong at the end of the millenium.
But all these awakenings have a beginning and an end.
They flame up and then burn out.
And then they start up again.