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Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?
American Greatness ^ | 31 May, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 06/01/2023 4:40:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Conservatives often slept through the woke revolution only to awaken to a country their apathy allowed to transform into one they no longer recognize. Can they finally breathe fire?

Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst.

How can America be turned upside down, as it is, when there is little public support for the things happening around us?

They don’t see much backing for the current wide-open borders and unchecked illegal immigration, yet it continues.

Conservatives feel that most Americans reject the trend of biological men dominating female sporting events.

They fear American jurisprudence has become now vastly weaponized and warped.

Certainly, Donald Trump will be more likely indicted by a politicized New York City prosecutor for supposedly overvaluing his net worth over a decade ago than would be a current violent street criminal clubbing a subway commuter.

In 2020 torching a federal courthouse or massing at the White House grounds, in efforts to get at the president, earned either few arrests and little or no jail time. In 2021, if one entered the Capitol and illegally paraded around like a buffoon, he could get a five-year prison sentence.

Traditionalists feel that sky-high energy prices, out-of-control urban crime, a depressed economy, high interest rates, and a politicized FBI, CIA, Justice Department, and Pentagon are all needlessly self-created messes.

How then did these extremist policies that have little popular support become institutionalized?

Conservatives, by their nature and unlike the Left, are more inclined to accept existing institutions rather than to radically alter or destroy them.

They were asleep at the wheel in 2020, when left-wing-funded lawsuits radically transformed Election Day in many states into a mere construct. Some 70 percent of the electorate in key precincts voted by mail or early...

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: vdh; victordavishanson; wokeism
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1 posted on 06/01/2023 4:40:26 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Conservatives need to start altering or destroying many of todays institutions.


2 posted on 06/01/2023 4:40:36 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: texas booster

VDH ping


3 posted on 06/01/2023 4:41:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
"Is the Sleeping Conservative Dragon Finally Waking Up?

Hell no...

4 posted on 06/01/2023 4:46:50 AM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: MtnClimber

We need to participate in an alternate economy and starve the woke. This has been said before. If we withdraw from the woke/Communist economy we have been propping up it will fail and the brands will become toxic.


5 posted on 06/01/2023 4:48:29 AM PDT by frogjerk (More people have died trusting the government than not trusting the government.)
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To: MtnClimber

Conservatives awakening? Possibly,yet is the specter of Trump splitting the Republican party to the point they cannot achieve the power they need to effectively fight back?


6 posted on 06/01/2023 4:49:39 AM PDT by buckalfa (Gut feelings are your guardian angels)
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To: unread

Agreed. The writing is on the wall.

This is from 6 years ago and was prophetic back then. We’ve rapidly devolved to that point. It’s here.

When God abandons a nation
https://youtu.be/Cz8AA_Oa0EU


7 posted on 06/01/2023 4:50:41 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


8 posted on 06/01/2023 4:53:02 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: buckalfa

If your not behind Trump saving our country, you may as well vote Democrat.


9 posted on 06/01/2023 4:53:56 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: MtnClimber
When the Levee Breaks
10 posted on 06/01/2023 4:55:03 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

Short of actual physical violence, we need to give back what they dish out.

They complain about*microaggressions* for not agreeing with them. Accuse them of the same.

They want to label us as *transphobes*, *white supremacists*, *haters*, *bigots*, etc.?

That sword cuts both ways.

Give it back and label them as Christophobes, racists (for being prejudices against whites and DON’T accept their nonsense that only whites can be prejudiced), label them as misogynists for their war on women, call them out for the drag crap which is no different towards women than blackface is towards blacks.


11 posted on 06/01/2023 4:56:03 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: spincaster

A lot of ‘Republicans’ did just that last night, and claimed it a “victory”.


12 posted on 06/01/2023 4:56:38 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe (The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
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To: MtnClimber

Naturally I believe “sleeping dragon” is the wrong phrase. See tagline.


13 posted on 06/01/2023 4:58:51 AM PDT by EandH Dad (sleeping giants wake up REALLY grumpy)
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To: unread

Of course it is. It’s rolling over to grab the next donut from the box on the bedside table.


14 posted on 06/01/2023 4:59:47 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should be less concerned with who we might offend and more concerned with who we inspire.)
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To: buckalfa
The specter of Trump splitting the Republican party to the point they cannot achieve the power they need to effectively fight back?

I remember a number of occasions when the Republican party got the power they needed. Fight back they didn't. They were all for revoking Obamacare right before they weren't.

15 posted on 06/01/2023 5:01:04 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ViLaLuz

Excellent message. I’ve viewed it a few times. MacArthur and Voddie Baucham have been preaching about the cultural rot with its latest iterations of wokeism, transgenderism, etc. in our society more and more lately.


16 posted on 06/01/2023 5:03:12 AM PDT by MarDav
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To: metmom

I call them pedophile groomers.


17 posted on 06/01/2023 5:03:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: spincaster
If your not behind Trump saving our country, you may as well vote Democrat.

"Your"? I refuse to be admonished by someone who makes obvious grammatical mistakes. Almost as bad as saying "loose" when "lose" is the right word.

Apologies in advance, I'm really cranky this morning. I'm looking forward to another day of correcting a Gen Z accountant's work product, because he doesn't double check his work. He touts his Master's degree in accounting from a large state university, and a CPA candidate, to boot. His alma mater now has as much credibility as CUNY Law School.

Last week, he sent me a partnership return for review, saying, "this one's easy." It took me two days to unravel his mistakes. "Tax season" looks to last all the way to October.

18 posted on 06/01/2023 5:06:19 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: MtnClimber

It was never asleep! It was simply drowned out by millions of 3rd world “immigrants” aka invaders legally and illegally swamping our country every year and was also drowned out by massive voter fraud aka “mail-in ballots” and before that by obama’s voter fraud organizations.


19 posted on 06/01/2023 5:06:23 AM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: MtnClimber

The dragon may be waking up, but with each passing year it shrinks in proportion to the population.


20 posted on 06/01/2023 5:06:45 AM PDT by ScottinVA
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