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Thanks for responding. Glad we understand each other a little more!

I share your feelings about the media bias. It's forced me to now just briefly scan even the local paper here. Amazing how they can be so bold with their liberal slant. For my own peace of mind, I've decided on the quick skim of their writings (and I don't even watch the major networks' news anymore). Life is better without their bias.

With your deep involvement in the campaign (for which I am grateful), I can surely understand those tense feelings, as you are more on the front lines of battle than many of us.

As an explanation, what bothers me (and maybe bothers others like me) is that what once was considered normal and sensible thinking is now considered to be far right.

This shift in thinking throughout the country, gradually adapting a more liberal point of view, is not good.

To remind people of the original standards in this country (of morality, good policy, etc.) is why I feel obligated to speak out on certain issues.

Yeah, I agree w/you on all of that.

What I have been told by left wing *change agents* is "People want to be good." Since *good* has been defined by inculcation as whatever cause the left is pushing as a current hook for the agenda of turning us into a centrally-controlled state, people adopt the beliefs that are being pushed as *good*. After 40 years and a couple of generations of this full immersion into leftist re-education, they are the mainstream.

What makes me hopeful are the numbers of young people I meet IRL and read on the net, who are obviously rebelling against this. I believe that liberty and individualism are hardwired into the human spirit, just as capitalism is what people naturally practice if government doesn't interfere. This is what helps me go on when I feel totally oppressed by the echo chamber in which we live.

I know the media is worried: the newspapers have lost the 18-34 year-old women and TV has lost their male counterparts. Both get news and analysis on the web and play computer games for entertainment. FNC, for all the frustration of its centrist positions, is beating out the left wing outlets for news junkies and for people who just watch one news cycle a day or one show in prime time.

We have 40 years of this to overcome. It is going to take 2 generations to set the culture back on track. I probably won't see it happen, but I pray it does and I think we have a shot.