This is a thing on Free Republic. There are people who will be on a thread about a movie, such as this one, and say they never go to movies.
There were people who on a thread about football, who say the NFL is dead to them. The same is true with other professional sports.
The implication is that we are not supposed to go to movies or support professional sports, because these institutions are liberal, and we are good conservatives on this site.
The implication is that you cannot be a good conservative and go to movies and watch professional sports.
Good post.
That is the implication. But the reality is they would go back to watching those things if Hollywood and professional sports would somehow go back and undo the transgressions they committed just before the point that they stopped watching.
I’ve known people that won’t watch any movies because to support a family-friendly film is to put money in coffers that fund family-unfriendly films, too.
Sports were different until teams, broadcasters, and sponsors—as a body—finally picked (the wrong) sides in the political and culture wars.
Before then, there were “sports widows” who “lost” husbands/boyfriends to whatever games were in TV. Then the wives and girlfriends took an “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” attitude to sports. This gave rise to the era of human interest stories behind the sports heroes. Especially during the Olympics. Guys bemoaned all the airtime devoted to that but were tolerant so long as game play/performance was not interrupted upon.
Enter the current era where culture and politics have finally taken the field with displays during the national anthem, uniforms with stickers and patches, end zones and fencing with slogans, sponsors with their messaging, and—worst of all—men masquerading as women in women’s sports.
I feel the same way, however...
...as far as protecting the tyranny of the status quo, I'm not much of a conservative (the status quo needs to be blown up) but I do love America, the Constitution, and freedom from gov't coercion, so I think I'm a die-hard Christian Patriot.
I think we need more faith-filled Patriots and maybe less status-quo protecting "conservatives."
We're in the good fight of faith and freedom.
Any point to the contrary is just plain boring.