I should have added that the Industrial Mainstream Media Complex uses their blowhorn to gaslight the policy to citizens. That engages the left wing army to act.
I had not seen that book list before, but seeing it now confirms my hypothesis, which also ties into teaching kids about queerness; we are replacing culture with fetish, literature with narrative, intellect and innovation with acquiescence and obedience. There is nothing liberating about the queer agenda. It is a clever collectivist concept. “Join us. Be a part of the newest cool crowd. Be queer.”
This is a message tailor made for lost kids, which is every kid at some point.
Let's not forget that the Left has already banned the greatest work of literature in the history of the world. And with it the greatest source of wisdom as well.
Great commentary. The Globalist Neo-Fascist Eugenicist Oligarchs seek to cement their rule by destroying the last bastion of freedom on the planet, which is the families of the American Middle Class. Resist, or be a slave.
"The left wants to solve everything top-down." Agree. It's a big issue. Note that their elites are fighting amongst themselves to figure out what the "solution" is. There's a big "no enemies to the left" vibe.
"The right wants to solve problems bottom-up." That was possibly mostly true in the past. Unfortunately the right has gone full populist. And populism is all about a mythical central power fixing things. Tariffs are not bottom-up solutions to anything. DeSantis' treatment of Disney is equivalent to Chicago city council's treatment of Chick-fil-a. Both reek and neither is bottom-up.
"People get information and decide for themselves." People have to get information from somewhere. Apparently about 1/4 of Rs believe in QAnon and even more believe the 2020 election was stolen. There's a major issue with where people get information, I guess.
As of now, the only uniting principle in the R party is to own the libs. There's no focus on any coherent policy. So Trump endorses unelectable fools like Oz. And the party keeps performative Putinist nut jobs like Greene around. Calling one group of people "groomers" is about as productive as calling another "Nazi" or "racist".
The alternative to bad D government should not be incoherent, crazy R government.
Do you think that DeSantis wanting to have a level playing field for everyone is treating Disney like Chicago treated Chik Fil A? Otherwise, you make some fair points. I was never a fan of tariffs. At the same time, they helped identify and raise the question about manufacturing in China which internally is a sworn enemy of the US. We need to solve that problem.
I am not a fan of every politician in the Republican Party, that is for sure. Gerrymandering allows people like Greene to be elected. Democrats gerrymander as bad or worse than Republicans. In this cold Civil War era of America, I'd rather have the gerrymander than a hot war. In a perfect world, there would be no gerrymander, and competition; with term limits.
I don't think 25% of R's are there with QAnon at all. But, I do agree a large percentage of Republicans think the election was stolen. There is a lot of statistical evidence which allows one to think that-->but it's not been proven objectively in court and until it is, there is no steal.
1 poll. Probably oversampled to show results rather than try to get a good sample to replicate a population. John Lott's stats were put out in an academic journal and I think showing if his sample was flawed or not is a good argument to have. Personally, I would point to the fact he took counties which bordered each other to see if voting patters were similar and that implies the county is similar. But, plenty of other evidence exists. At the same time, they need to prove it in court.
With regard to Disney, you and the author are forgetting we are in a Cold Civil War. Disney is at war with the core values of the United States. When you are in a war, you have to use the power that you have to crush your enemy. Good take here: https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=398753 National Review is hardly a "conservative" outlet anymore. It's establishment Republican.
The US is a very diverse, in the best sense of the word, country. We need space for all people to live their lives in a peaceable manner. Both sides need to drop the rope, not go to war.
As I said, the current R party is populist and has no actual governing philosophy other than owning the libs. It's certainly not conservative in any pre-21st century sense of the word.
I should have added that the Industrial Mainstream Media Complex uses their blowhorn to gaslight the policy to citizens. That engages the left wing army to act.
I had not seen that book list before, but seeing it now confirms my hypothesis, which also ties into teaching kids about queerness; we are replacing culture with fetish, literature with narrative, intellect and innovation with acquiescence and obedience. There is nothing liberating about the queer agenda. It is a clever collectivist concept. “Join us. Be a part of the newest cool crowd. Be queer.”
This is a message tailor made for lost kids, which is every kid at some point.
Let's not forget that the Left has already banned the greatest work of literature in the history of the world. And with it the greatest source of wisdom as well.
The right surrenders way too easily.
Great commentary. The Globalist Neo-Fascist Eugenicist Oligarchs seek to cement their rule by destroying the last bastion of freedom on the planet, which is the families of the American Middle Class. Resist, or be a slave.
"The left wants to solve everything top-down." Agree. It's a big issue. Note that their elites are fighting amongst themselves to figure out what the "solution" is. There's a big "no enemies to the left" vibe.
"The right wants to solve problems bottom-up." That was possibly mostly true in the past. Unfortunately the right has gone full populist. And populism is all about a mythical central power fixing things. Tariffs are not bottom-up solutions to anything. DeSantis' treatment of Disney is equivalent to Chicago city council's treatment of Chick-fil-a. Both reek and neither is bottom-up.
"People get information and decide for themselves." People have to get information from somewhere. Apparently about 1/4 of Rs believe in QAnon and even more believe the 2020 election was stolen. There's a major issue with where people get information, I guess.
As of now, the only uniting principle in the R party is to own the libs. There's no focus on any coherent policy. So Trump endorses unelectable fools like Oz. And the party keeps performative Putinist nut jobs like Greene around. Calling one group of people "groomers" is about as productive as calling another "Nazi" or "racist".
The alternative to bad D government should not be incoherent, crazy R government.
Do you think that DeSantis wanting to have a level playing field for everyone is treating Disney like Chicago treated Chik Fil A? Otherwise, you make some fair points. I was never a fan of tariffs. At the same time, they helped identify and raise the question about manufacturing in China which internally is a sworn enemy of the US. We need to solve that problem.
I am not a fan of every politician in the Republican Party, that is for sure. Gerrymandering allows people like Greene to be elected. Democrats gerrymander as bad or worse than Republicans. In this cold Civil War era of America, I'd rather have the gerrymander than a hot war. In a perfect world, there would be no gerrymander, and competition; with term limits.
I don't think 25% of R's are there with QAnon at all. But, I do agree a large percentage of Republicans think the election was stolen. There is a lot of statistical evidence which allows one to think that-->but it's not been proven objectively in court and until it is, there is no steal.
Florida has 1,288 independent special districts. DeSantis is not trying to create a level playing field by eliminating a single district. He's trying to punish a single company. Cooke's article is a good one: https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/04/ron-desantiss-misguided-attack-on-disneys-legal-status/
By at least 1 poll about 25% of Rs have QAnon views. https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2022-02-24/a-quarter-of-republicans-believe-central-views-of-qanon-conspiracy-movement
If the statistics you are thinking about come from John Lott, they appear to be flawed and not credible. https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2022/04/03/the-journal-public-choice-goes-the-way-of-lancet-and-publishes-a-paper-that-is-riddled-with-errors-but-comes-to-a-political-conclusion-that-they-want-to-support/
1 poll. Probably oversampled to show results rather than try to get a good sample to replicate a population. John Lott's stats were put out in an academic journal and I think showing if his sample was flawed or not is a good argument to have. Personally, I would point to the fact he took counties which bordered each other to see if voting patters were similar and that implies the county is similar. But, plenty of other evidence exists. At the same time, they need to prove it in court.
With regard to Disney, you and the author are forgetting we are in a Cold Civil War. Disney is at war with the core values of the United States. When you are in a war, you have to use the power that you have to crush your enemy. Good take here: https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=398753 National Review is hardly a "conservative" outlet anymore. It's establishment Republican.
The US is a very diverse, in the best sense of the word, country. We need space for all people to live their lives in a peaceable manner. Both sides need to drop the rope, not go to war.
As I said, the current R party is populist and has no actual governing philosophy other than owning the libs. It's certainly not conservative in any pre-21st century sense of the word.
I disagree. There is a governing philosophy. But the establishment Republicans don't agree. The old Tea Party Republicans do.
1. No more free shit.
2. Close the border and have an immigration process that is rational.
3. Support nuclear families.
4. No more useless foreign aid to corrupt governments.
5. No more debt and cut government spending radically
6. Encourage competition by cutting regulation. No more oligopolies or government solutions to problems.
7. School choice
There's more but that's a start.
Conflict of visions
You don't mean...good vs. evil...do you?
see Thomas Sowell