We know who Dr. Thomas Sowell is because we are consumers of those who write scholarly insightful articles on issues of our time. We value truth-telling and appreciate those who articulate perspectives that resonate truth to us.
Those that haven’t heard of Dr. Sowell are those who ‘choose’ not to seek the truth. Almost everyone today has access to the internet. Very few people have an excuse for not having found such people as Dr. Sowell if they are genuinely interested in political news and views.
Rush Limbaugh recently provided an important insight about conservative media. Conservatives lead all literary and broadcast media conduits in sales and viewers. Where conservatives lag is with the ‘popular culture’, the film and entertainment form of media.
For example in the 1970s Norman Lear’s and Bud Yorkin’s ‘All in the family’ was tremendously entertaining for it reflected the blue collar culture back into America’s living rooms but with the conservative as a bigot and the liberal as a reasonable, enlightened and hopeful prospect for the future. It was more effective at forming opinions and political perspectives than most any other form of ‘news’ broadcasting.
For conservatives to appeal to the blue collar voter they must be entertaining and have the ability to laugh at themselves.
For example, Jackie Mason has the ability laugh at his Jewishness and it is hilarious. It makes us love Jewish people because we can smile at their foibles that are as real as those of non-Jews. Do we have a conservative that can laugh at conservatives and make a large swath of democrats and republicans warm to conservatives?
Imagine a 201X sitcom like ‘All in the Family’ but with the roles reversed where the liberal is a bigot fascist and the ‘Meathead’ is a conservative that merely wants a simple and clear understanding of the American way, where men are rugged and women are feminine, where homosexual marriage is portrayed to be what it is in reality; freakish. Meathead wasn’t funny, Archie Bunker was funny because of his stupidity and his ridiculous circular logic.
The liberals still own the popular culture. Conservatives own the intellectual culture. To attract the middle, conservatives need to be attractive via the popular culture.
Take this hit tv show on Showtime "Homeland." It's won a lot of Emmys. But it's a liberal piece of crap. My wife and I started watching it, and I started noticing all the typical lib influences. Large amounts of foul language including the f word liberally used by both sexes in mixed company. A negative view of the War on Terrorism. The heroine is a hysterical, semi-lunatic who loves bebop jazz. The head of her CIA department is black. (spoiler alert) Two marines who were captured by Al Qaeda are turned into sleepers. Now I can barely stand to watch it even though my wife still likes it.
Libs are genetically incapable of depicting a fair view of of conservatives. Conservatives must always be bigoted, hateful, subhumans who barely have the right to exist with the superior people, liberals.