Posted on 09/18/2021 3:57:30 AM PDT by Kaslin
We conservatives possess a terrible habit that must be shed if we wish to save this country: We constantly obsess over leftist behavior. We ask questions like: Why do liberals teach students to hate America? Why do they force children to wear masks? Why does Facebook and Twitter censor free speech?
Who cares?
Do liberals obsess over our psyche? No, they don’t. They go about their business taking over every facet of American culture and crushing dissent while we ask: Why are they doing that?
Practically speaking, it’s utterly irrelevant why the left does what it does. The only thing that matters is: What are we going to do about it?
Right now, the left is targeting our children, forcing them to wear masks and receive Covid vaccines. We can spend hours psychoanalyzing why the left is so impervious to scientific evidence, but a much better use of our brain cells would be to explore how we can start our own elementary schools and universities.
Conservatives represent half the population, yet how many prominent right-wing colleges exist in this country? One? Two? It’s pathetic.
Can you imagine how much power we would have over the minds of the next generation if a group of wealthy conservatives opened 5-10 top-quality universities across the country? Can you imagine how much worse this country will be in 20 years if we don’t take this step and allow liberals to continue educating our youth?
If I were a billionaire, I would open a university tomorrow and make two announcements:
1) Every qualified student – vaccinated or not – is welcome on campus.
2) Every professor who has been “canceled” by his institution over the past 5-10 years for expressing forbidden ideas is welcome to teach at my university.
Over night, this university would attract some of the most interesting minds in America (bland professors don’t get canceled) and become an exciting hub of academic freedom and excellence. Countless children from conservative families and others would flock to this new university instead of Ivy League colleges, which corrupt so many idealistic souls.
When we’re not obsessing over leftist behavior, we tend to whine about it. For example, we grumble about censorship on Facebook and Twitter. These platforms are of course evil, but why are we always complaining about them and not starting our own? Many conservative thinkers say that’s impossible, but there’s no reason it should be, and truly one of the greatest missed opportunities in recent memory was Donald Trump’s decision not to join Gab after he was expelled from Twitter. Had he joined it on January 7, Gab would have almost instantaneously become a true competitor to Twitter.
I don’t wish to live in an America that has two of everything – two university systems, two Hollywoods, two sets of social media platforms, two banking systems, two NBAs, etc. But we’re reaching the point where we don’t have a choice. The left won’t let us speak or live freely. So we really only have two options: Whine all day about it or start our own alternative set of institutions and rebuild this country from scratch.
I opt for the latter. But we will never be able to accomplish anything as long as we complain and ask, “Why does the left…?” We need all our smartest conservatives thinking, not about leftists, but about ourselves. How can we create conservative schools, how can we make conservative movies, how can we start airlines that won’t demand proof of vaccination?
Not whining. Acting.
How many conservative billionaires are there?
All the major corporations seem to be woke and/or globalists.
Because they were trained by or are godless marxists who want global marxism. Their idol was obama the marxist world citizen.
Red states need to Unite or Die
Your posting contains a great deal of good - but I am not so sure about your assertion that the "Left" is not self-aware.
To be truly devious requires a certain degree of empathy (not empathy motivated by true compassion, but rather by a desire to exploit the other's weaknesses). To "con" one's neighbor, one must be able to "squeeze into" one's neighbor's skin. Is that possible without also being self-aware? Perhaps.
But maybe that is all beside the point.
Regards,
It’s always struck me as weird—and I fully include myself in this—that as a Christian conservative, I understand and agree with the concept that mankind is sinful and broken after the Fall. “Total depravity,” they call it, the concept that man cannot reunite with God without a Savior and through the power of the Spirit. (Roughly. I’m not a theologian.) And yet, we’re always so surprised when people actually *do* depraved things. It’s like we accept the depravity of man in the abstract and the plural, but when we see concrete and singular examples of it, our brains tilt. So we spend a lot of time trying to figure out why someone seems to do broken and insane things—like most leftism—instead of combating it.
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“Meh... We’ve had CHOICE for over 40 years. And DONE nothing about it. Shut up and lick your overlord’s boots!”
Speak for yourself Gloom and doomer pos.
I do what I CAN do. I attend school board meetings, Town Council meetings and speak up. I vote Conservatively, I am registered as an Independent and donate NOTHING to the RNC.
Tell me what YOU do and what you think the rest of us should do that you yourself are willing to get involved in. We all know what the problem is so the gloom and doomers who come here serve no purpose other than to depress others and cause them to lose hope. This is exactly what they intend and there is no place for them here.
“Meh... We’ve had CHOICE for over 40 years. And DONE nothing about it. Shut up and lick your overlord’s boots!”
LOL, anothe FOS keyboard warrior perhaps?
I vote and I go to local school board and Town Council meetings and speak up. I do all I can but if you believe I can do more I will listen. I am ex military and am 79 yrs old so walking around with a club and bashing heads is not something I can any longer do.
Waiting.
I, too, am 79 and ex-military.
But even walking is hard for me these days, let alone to swing a club.
As for the FOS thingy; that has been a few times in my past.
Now I'm about down to a halfa tank.
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