Posted on 03/19/2022 12:22:35 PM PDT by JAG 5000
Is a question asked by Patrick J. Buchanan in his classic work The Death Of The West. `
Says Buchanan: `
One reason is "The Liberals have captured the institutions where the young
spend most of their waking hours -- MTV and primetime, movies and
magazines, schools and colleges -- the Liberal Revolution is able to shape
the values, beliefs, and attitudes of the young. Artists, actors, playwrights,
song writers, and popular singers are almost all on the other side. `
(As for the Conservatives. . . ) `
Op-ed page commentators and radio hosts (eg Mark Levine) cannot match
this cultural firepower. The arsenals are unequal. Moreover, the entertainment
that the (Liberal) cultural revolution has to offer is far more attractive and
alluring, thus many of the children of traditionalists defect."
__Patrick J. Buchanan, The Death Of The West, pages 201-211
`
The Death Of The West is an oldie goldie but well worth
reading or re-reading. Its a magnificent conservative
work.
Thoughts?
JAG
Because the Conservatives play by the rules and, generally, obey the law.
Liberals don’t.
The answer is...they don't WANT to do anything. They are part of the problem.
THIS.
Because society no longer believes in consequences.
Also, too many conservatives actually want what liberals are offering.
Because for years we fell for people like Bush and McConnell and McCim insisting that they were with us when they were really just with the ruling class but wearing a slightly different shade on their jersey.
Step 1: Stop calling them liberals. They’re marxists and they got their start in the universities in the 1960s.
Because once they get into any position, the have two choices. Ether bend to the whims of the liberals, or be destroyed by the deep state. The time to fight was during the bush1, clinton, bush2 and obumber’s time. But no, they wanted to play nice with a bunch of cutthroat progressives.
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Most Republicans are RINOS. True conservatives are few and far between. RINOS are more interested in padding their pockets than legislate in the best interest of the nation. They have begged their duties off on administrative law rather than take a stand. Until we start electing ethical people to congress we will continue this downward spiral.
Conservatives are much better in the art of Meme’s.
In one of the 2000 GOP Presidential nominee debates, the participants were asked which philosopher had the greatest effect on their own thinking.
Steve Forbes (my candidate at the time) said John Locke, and explained how Locke's theory was the basis for our government. It was the best answer for any conservative.
Then the moderator asked George W, and he said said Jesus Christ. I was stupidly naïve enough to believe him. Not all who say unto Me "Lord, Lord" will enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt School attacked the pillars of our society and infiltrated education K through college and professional schools and, thus, all professions.
With that control, they control everything else: news media; movies; TV; big tech; and infiltrated the major denominations.
Breitbart liked to say politics is downstream of culture. We are fighting the symptoms but the disease is Cultural Marxism. All of the ‘gender battles’, race riots, etc. etc. come from there.
Conservatives lives their lives, raise children, pay taxes, and keep their head down going to church and living life. Marxists 24/7 are working for their false religion and will destroy anyone they want to ‘cancel.’ They work harder and believe more strongly in their lives than we do in our truth.
I am a conservative and with that said we suck. We are to nice, play by the rules and believe in the system. On the other hand liberals are mean (if you are not one of them), cheat and game the system to their advantage. This is nobody fault but ours and unless we play hard ball nothing changes and we continue to lose. Are the “Gypsy Jokers” are savior? If the reports are true they get it.
Republican politicians are cowards.
conservatives have become afraid to speak their minds, for fear of the cancel culture, or their becoming locked out of their favorite software, or, heavens forbid, they have to actually bloody their nice clothing in self-defense of their lives from crazed leftists!
it is being too nice, and not giving bloody noses when conservatives had the chance, so they have penned themselves, even in their churches, and now, it is and will be, much harder to exit that pen.
2) Corporations, foundations, parties, and government agencies rely on universities for their leaders, so eventually they control the corporations, parties, and agencies.
3) Think back to all the divorces in the '60s and '70s. We've become a more hedonistic country, and that happened in our parents' time (or our grandparents' or our younger days). Nobody wants to be a killjoy and nobody likes a killjoy.
Because we are going through a similar phase to the late 60’s. We are old and don’t want anyone to have fun. We are trying to “impose” our will on the Yutes.
And honestly…our marketing guys suck.
Conservatives have the numbers and financial power to cause disruption in liberal strongholds but don’t do it as it complicates their lives. What would happen to public schools if half of their students left and were home schooled? What if Conservatives dumped Netflix, Amazon, deleted Facebook, and stopped paying to go to movies? What if Conservatives boycotted brands and stores that support lefty causes?
The depressing reality is almost every business is more afraid of the left than the right? Why is that?
One more thing, why do Conservative parents pay to send their kids to lefty universities?
There was no idealism, no first principles, no passion, whatsoever. It was like a gathering of every Student Council President you've known since Middle School. It was a room of Tracy Flicks's.
I can't prove it, but I swear Riverwood grad, and unelected GA election compromiser, Gabe Sterling, was there.
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