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Progressivism in culture: Where are progressives the weakest?
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Posted on 01/04/2021 7:18:20 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica

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To: ProgressingAmerica

Very astute point.

Respects


41 posted on 01/04/2021 8:42:45 AM PST by Swiffer_Ralf (Orig. Eureka_Lead)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

then how about a full force punch, right smack dab in the forehead??


42 posted on 01/04/2021 8:46:34 AM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: Swiffer_Ralf

Thanks. But I wanted to get your thoughts on this.

What more things can we do to increase communication?


43 posted on 01/04/2021 8:47:38 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Adolf Hitler

That is were the solution to the problem is. Plant the seed and harvest it in 20 years. We are getting to the party 60 years late


44 posted on 01/04/2021 9:24:14 AM PST by Jimmy The Snake
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“Organizing” was never designed for a power elite to use against the powerless... (like what’s happening with democrats and progressives now.)


45 posted on 01/04/2021 9:28:19 AM PST by GOPJ (Our culture is starting to push thugs to the top - a kiss of death for an advanced culture.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Strongest: Feels

Weakest: Logic


46 posted on 01/04/2021 9:41:22 AM PST by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Religion/Churches
Dennis Prager makes the point that leftism - not “liberalism,” he insists on a distinction between the two - is an actual evil. Leftism wars against gratitude, and thus against happiness (since there’s no such thing as a happy ingrate). “Woke” churches have a truth problem, and therefore are vulnerable to pressure from lovers of wisdom.

47 posted on 01/04/2021 9:58:40 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Leftists are weakest in counties.

Control the village councils, the schoolboards, judgeships, county boards and sheriff offices and you control the county. Control the counties and you control the states.

Many county elections are held in the spring when the voter turnout is around 10-15%.

This isn’t rocket science.


48 posted on 01/04/2021 10:46:57 AM PST by sergeantdave (Federal courts no longer have any standing in America. )
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To: ProgressingAmerica
OK

Goal: Make the press aware of their own bias without it making them more biased in reaction. In short how to improve the Truth to PC ratio.

An example:

When the tape of Biden bragging about getting the Ukrainian fired who was investigating his son fst appeared, Trump's team should have made a tape of Trump saying the exact same words to an unseen group - and sent that tape to MSNBC ... with no comments. Because it's obviously Trump talking - they would run with it.

Lower level news outlets would pick it up and the usual hysteria over Trump would occur... At that point Trump says the tape was a joke...that the REAL tape is here: and it's the tape of Biden bragging about holding back money if the Ukrainians don't fire the guy he wants fired.

Enough press members will have gone out on the limb that it'll be hard for them NOT to see what Biden did as 'wrong'. What we're going for here is self 'awareness'...which the press doesn't have now.

Another one could be a tape of a ballot counting event... again a basic copy of a real tape. This time white Republicans are stuffing fake white ballots in a biracial precinct.. same 'ballots under tables' - same 'send the workers and observers home on a silly excuse - broken water pipe etc...same everything except the D and R are switched.

People in the press really do believe the lies they're putting out...they're not 'lying' in their own minds... and they don't see their double standard. This tactic would put a crimp in that style.

In short you organize, create teams and do projects that are fun to do...

49 posted on 01/04/2021 10:59:55 AM PST by GOPJ (Our culture is starting to push thugs to the top - a kiss of death for an advanced culture.)
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To: GOPJ
Ridcule...Play 'em, we can lie and make up false stories too.

Gossip works, put them on the defense

Half-truths, fake facts, laughing about it.

Remember that it is their religion, so be prepared

50 posted on 01/04/2021 11:44:19 AM PST by razorback-bert (This year shall be known as PANIC of 20.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

I agree with this. In a sane world, it would be we (you and I) who call ourselves liberal. The progressives took over(stole) the word “liberal” in the 1930s. This is how we get the oddity over who’s a liberal and who’s a “classical liberal”, a nearly nonsensical distinction. I understand why we have come to call ourselves “conservatives”, but that’s not actually what we are.

Herbert Hoover wrote in his books at the time and he was FURIOUS about the hijacking of that word “liberal” by the statists.

Interestingly enough, this word hijacking is also where we get the confusion around “libertarian”, which always was synonymous with anarchism. Because the progressives moved in and hijacked the word liberal, Rothbard decided he should swoop in and hijack the word libertarian.(The Betrayal of the American Right, 1971, page 83)

I would be very interested for a battle over words, I think this would be a very worthy battle, but it would require a high profile leader to start it up and put its value on display. That’s not something that you nor I could do, not that I can see. Maybe you have alternative thoughts on this?


51 posted on 01/04/2021 11:45:28 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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Talk radio
Talk radio is not dominated by leftists, and cannot be - because the defining characteristic of a successful talk show host is that s/he takes on all comers. Leftists try the talk radio format without treating challenging callers respectfully. The audience for talk radio is in the market for truth - but leftists are not in business of providing it.

Leftists in journalism control the topics to be discussed absolutely, and the hit-and-run format suits that fine. Talk radio is, as Rush puts it, “the long form.” In the long form, “Look! A squirrel!” only goes so far.


52 posted on 01/04/2021 12:46:12 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
In a sane world, it would be we (you and I) who call ourselves liberal. The progressives took over(stole) the word “liberal” in the 1930s.
If you read The Road to Serfdom (Reader’s Digest Condensed Version here), you will see that FA Hayek used the term “liberal” to denote people who today would be called “conservatives” in America. That is because Hayek, an Austrian, learned English in America before the meaning of “liberal” was essentially inverted, according to Safire's New Political Dictionary, in the 1920s. And the meaning of “liberal” was not changed in Britain, where Hayek wrote Serfdom during WWII. 😀

53 posted on 01/04/2021 12:54:13 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and - correspondingly - naivete towards government.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

They are and have always been weakest on the Constitution but strongest on getting around it via the courts and politics.


54 posted on 01/04/2021 4:06:41 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Add Medical who do un-necessary testing, blood work scamming/Medicare, and Big Pharma. You could add in the liars who work for government like Andrew Kolodney Shrink, PROP COMMITTEE all he does is spew lies about Intractable Pain Patients being addicts. Doubled paid, Feds pay him and states.

Failure of Dem Governors. Goes beyond COVID, as they run the worst states, mayors also.. Lightfoot. https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2021/01/05/democrat-governors-fail-miserably-on-vaccine-distribution-n2582524

Checking my email this AM like yesterday 3 things pop up COVID causes Blood Clots in organs, that newly elected R Rep died of a heart attack while the doc was removing Blood clots. Thinning brain veins, and today is LONG TERM GI ISSUES. Now why haven’t we heard of these factors?

This sloppy crap T’s me off. I work best with hard truthful facts. Don’t need long involved stories just the facts. Once upon a time is not needed.


55 posted on 01/05/2021 6:06:03 AM PST by GailA (Constitution vs evil Treasonous political Apparatchiks)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Hey, thanks for the dialog, I re-read your comment and realized that I failed to reply to this part of what you said.

"It’s the same with the idea that anyone can make a movie now. Moviemaking takes time. Who pays for the equipment, the actors, the sets? Who pays you during production while you’re not earning a living?"

What do you think about something like this as a long term project?

56 posted on 01/05/2021 7:15:55 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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