The day after the last debacle of an election I wrote about how the culture is the problem. Nothing has happened to change my mind. Bill Bennett agrees.
Rather than offer a broad sweeping vision for the country, Democrats played identity politics. Republicans were the culprits, and women, young adults, black, Latinos, etc… were the victims. And voters believed it. Why? For the same reason this litany — gender, race, ethnicity, class — sound so familiar.
Voters believed it, not because it was something new or groundbreaking, but because this has been the template of many of our character-building institutions — our public schools, our colleges, and public universities — for the past 50 years. Go to any major university in America and this is the mindset that is taught, preached, and ingested. It also gets an assist from television drama, from the movies, and from much of the mainstream media.
For decades liberals have succeeded in defining the national discourse, the terms of discussion, and, therefore, the election, in these terms. They have successfully set the parameters and focus of the national and political dialogue as predominantly about gender, race, ethnicity, and class. This is the paradigm, the template through which many Americans, probably a majority, more or less view the world, our country, and the election. It is a divisive strategy and Democrats have targeted and exploited those divides.
How else can we explain that more young people now favor socialism to capitalism?
According to a Pew Research poll taken last year, 49% of Americans age 18-29 have a positive view of socialism while just 46% have a positive view of capitalism. Such a view has roots.
Read the whole thing. Unless we find a way to at least match the left on culture we’re doomed. But it’s not something we can expect politicians to do. We have to work this out on the local level, and by all means stop giving our hard earned dollars to media and entertainment outlets that hate us and our values. You know what they hate more than us? They hate losing money. Send them a message. Turn them off your TV. Stop paying to see their movies or for their DVDs. We make up half of this country, why are we sending them our money to aid them in our destruction? Stop, already!
YEAH, STOP ALREADY!! Love it, LC. Stopping right now. It’s not hard to look up political donations and decide to spend your very little cash with a company or manufacturer or store that shares your value system.
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How do you replace leftist teachers in K-12 and college? How do you remove leftists in Hollywood, the music business, publishing, television, advertising and journalism?
Does anyone even have a plan for changing the progressive dominated culture? Is anyone working on a plan?
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Have any ideas? It took them decades, so changing things isn’t going to happen over night. But we have to start somewhere.
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A very good post, LC. I differ in one respect from your analysis in that I think that the culture of the left has doomed themselves. WE are the producers; WE are the source of their easy, painless existence. WE are able to do this due to our discipline and hard work ethic. If WE stop, then the ruling class left must coerce us into a monetary slavery to maintain their political life and people will only take so much of that, just look at France for example. Sure, the masses of takers can whine and riot and vote to no avail if WE squat. The left has no popularity or power if they don’t have your stuff to give to others.
I’m totally on board with your suggestion but I’m taking it a step further by liquidating properties and taking dispersion close outs on 401k accounts because taxes will not be cheaper in the foreseeable future. I’m pulling my horns in economically. I’ve had it with the hand outs on my back. When I can, it’s cash only transactions for the time being.
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Liquidating was probably a good idea seeing what the stock market has been doing since the election.
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A vendor for our company called me the other day and we talked a little about the election. He hit the nail on the head when he stated that the very sudden, very steady and consistently downward trend on the stock market is a TRUE reflection on the people’s thoughts about the election and on the state of the economy – not the “democrat mandate” and the “economy is improving” mumbo-jumbo!
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