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Have Progressives Won “The Culture War?”
Mises Institute ^ | March 17, 2018 | Hunter Lewis

Posted on 03/17/2018 8:20:50 AM PDT by Mafe

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To: Yogafist

‘homosexuals attack him, and America responds by overwhelming his business locations with support’

this and the NFL are examples of the progressives going too far too fast, and overestimating their influence...however, incremental erosion of the culture, on an everyday basis, continues apace...


21 posted on 03/17/2018 8:47:23 AM PDT by IrishBrigade (b)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

ABSOLUTELY. Good analysis, Doc.


22 posted on 03/17/2018 8:48:11 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Rurudyne

He thinks conservatives are uneducated? Has he not heard all the smart liberals throwing around all their imaginary rights to abortion, healthcare, safety, gender identity, meals, etc? They are being led by a bunch of high schoolers and no one corrects their mistakes and logical fallacies. Idiots led by fools.


23 posted on 03/17/2018 8:49:45 AM PDT by Dr. Pritchett
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To: Mafe

I’ve been wearing my NRA hat frequently...in Maryland.

Haven’t had one negative comment or look.

Had we lost, I’d be frequently challenged.


24 posted on 03/17/2018 8:50:07 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Mafe

Don’t have to read the article to know the answer. It is not that they won, it is that no one fought back. Or either outright surrendered.


25 posted on 03/17/2018 8:50:09 AM PDT by odawg
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To: Mafe

GWB is correct that most Hispanics share our values, we simply have to remind them how abused they were by socialist pigs in their own countries, witness Venezuela.


26 posted on 03/17/2018 8:51:51 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Yogafist
You win a culture war by having principles and by living up to them. You don't need "leadership" to do that.

In fact, I'd say anyone who looks for leadership in a culture war probably isn't even on the battlefield.

27 posted on 03/17/2018 8:52:34 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's.")
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To: All

In the cultural realm Pop Culture and Hollywood is just an overwhelming force. Day in day out they chip away at traditional values. How long did it take to go from Wil and Grace to men in women’s bathrooms and a thousand years of the definition of marriage to get tossed?


28 posted on 03/17/2018 8:54:13 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: amihow

A few weeks ago, I was at an airport coffee shop.

The clerk said something about nearly running out of Styrofoam cups. The hipster in line next to me said something about that being a good thing.

I said “well, actually, Styrofoam is far cleaner environmentally to manufacture than wax coated paper is, plus the coated paper actually breaks down slower than foam does. It was a good conversation and he thanked me for the brief education. We’re not necessarily winning but we also aren’t losing


29 posted on 03/17/2018 8:54:53 AM PDT by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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To: Mafe
Winning the culture explains why social media is a sewer; the movie and music businesses are in an artistic chasm, and beset with misogynism that seems to baffle them; and our higher education institutions have become an industry of gritters.

Economic, scientific, and moral progress exists in spite of the progressive culture- not because of it.

30 posted on 03/17/2018 8:55:11 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: daler

Now the elite are using the argument to take away the 2nd amendment to chip away at the 1st and 4th.

SPIT!


31 posted on 03/17/2018 8:55:51 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Mafe
In addition, progressives “are getting better and more aggressive at silencing dissenting behavior.

And that right there is the fast track to converting a "culture war" into something very different.

That something would bewilder the proglib comrats in its form and effectiveness.

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32 posted on 03/17/2018 9:00:08 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Yogafist

Trump is trying very hard to be a populist, and populism is the salve of governance, just beware of the fly in the ointment.


33 posted on 03/17/2018 9:01:06 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Mafe

Culture ebbs, culture flows, culture is constantly in flux. Nobody wins the culture war. It’s like declaring a permanent majority, wait a couple of years, it’ll all be different.


34 posted on 03/17/2018 9:02:20 AM PDT by discostu (It's been so long, welcome back my friend, to the show, that never ends.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The war has just begun.

People are cowed into submission until they rebel.


35 posted on 03/17/2018 9:03:19 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Mafe

Brooks seems to enjoy the prospect of conservatives being driven out of polite society.


36 posted on 03/17/2018 9:04:17 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Dr. Pritchett

I’ve sometimes opined that if we aren’t seeing the effects of scriptural “strong delusion” in the Left — especially when you consider the importing Islam and not merely the native madness, perversions and murders — then I don’t want to see what the real strong delusion will be like.

I do this in a similar way to pointing out that if it looks like a Romans 1:18-32 era we shouldn’t be surprised to discover that it WAS a Romans 1:18-32 era.

But of course these are related, for both happen because people turn their backs on retaining knowledge of God.


37 posted on 03/17/2018 9:05:37 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Mafe

They haven’t just won it, it’s been a massacre.

Same sex marriage, gender fluidity, bathroom laws, white privilege, diversity idiocies, openly gays in the military, the demolition of borders and nation states,the diminution of family, toxic masculinity, the takeover by the left of 90% of major public, private, religiouz and corporate institutions.


38 posted on 03/17/2018 9:05:43 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Mafe

If history teaches anything it is that no one “wins” a war for very long.


39 posted on 03/17/2018 9:06:55 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendix))
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To: Steve_Seattle
That's because he's a Dumbass!


40 posted on 03/17/2018 9:12:04 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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