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"The Left controls the airwaves, and every argument they put forth is some sort of emotional appeal. They never argue facts, they only argue emotion."

Conservatives have ceded the universities, the press, and the government to the liberals. Because of this most future business executives end up with liberal notions as well. So we have ultimately ceded the business establishment to liberals as well.

Liberals are not as stupid and emotional as conservatives claim. Marxist theory is quite complex and is certainly not based on emotion.

Arguing against Marxism, socialism, Keynesian economics, progressivism, and nihilism requires intelligence and a knowledge of the logical and/or pragmatic fallacies underlying all of those bad philosophies.

Yes, much of the discussion in the news is of an emotional tenor, but behind the scenes highly intellectual arguments are going on in which conservatives are not taking part.

We have abandoned the field. Conservatives are on radio stations, podcasts, YouTube videos, and think tanks primarily preaching to the choir. Maybe people like Crowder and Molyneux are having some effect and getting some liberals to move toward the right. However, as long as the official sources of "knowledge" and "wisdom" are held captive by the left, there is little hope that our country will move back toward its founding principles.

I do not believe "ceded" is a correct term at all. They were simply powerless to halt the advancing erosion of liberal thought into such institutions because these institutions are inherently liberal by their very nature.

Wealth itself creates inherent liberal predilections.

Liberals are not as stupid and emotional as conservatives claim. Marxist theory is quite complex and is certainly not based on emotion.

I didn't say that they were. It is their voters which represent the bulk of the stupid population in this nation. The Liberal leadership are often quite intelligent, but they do not make arguments that work on intelligent people. They put forth arguments which only work on fools.

It does if you wish to engage in academic arguments with leftist theorists. It is utterly a pointless effort if you wish to sway elections. The public at large is not moved by intellectual arguments, but instead by emotional arguments.

Remember this?

*That* is how you deliver a knockout punch.

We have abandoned the field. Conservatives are on radio stations, podcasts, YouTube videos, and think tanks primarily preaching to the choir.

We have not abandoned it. We have been driven from it due to the fact that wealth induces liberalism in those who have it. Over time, the wealthy moved ever further to the left, and there was no force capable of being applied to move them back in the other direction.

However, as long as the official sources of "knowledge" and "wisdom" are held captive by the left, there is little hope that our country will move back toward its founding principles.

We are moving ever in the direction of Statism and Aristocracy. It has been pointed out to me that Socialism and Communism is really just a vehicle to create an aristocracy, (party apparat) and that forcing the remander of the population to remain poor is a deliberate feature of the ideology.

By destroying the middle class, you eliminate possible challenges to your power structure from below.