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The Real Problem Is: We are Losing
Anyone on the right can look back at the last 50 years and see the long string of losses to the left. They have set the agenda and they have set the direction. A Republican made nice with China and took us off the gold standard. While Reagan won the Cold War and cut taxes, everything else on the domestic front went the Left’s way. Bush and Clinton both raised taxes. Deficit spending has been the way of the nation in almost every year I have been alive. We no longer need any sort of war to spend and spend. Each President of the last generation more than doubled the previous president’s debt.
The Left controls all the big companies, all the universities, and thanks to the administrative state, they write all the new rules that are effectively laws. From Sea to Shining Sea, the Left has moved from victory to victory, and the Right goes from defeat to defeat. I will admit we have made progress on guns, but that looks to be a lot less safe a win for the Right, than say Obamacare was for the Left.
Who do I blame? Conservatism, Inc. for signing on to the Globalism vision. We are now dependent on China, an avowed enemy, for too many vital goods and services. We have gone from a nation of manufacturing to a nation of service employees. We are losing the Republic and we are losing against China, which will soon eclipse us in every way possible. I expect my children will be my age in a world dominated by China.
Of course the people at Conservatism, Inc. will long be dead.
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No , they don’t. But if I express as much about white American culture or European culture, I’m so racist.
Its gotten to a point where a great many White Americans actually believe they have absolutely no culture. When did a lack of museums, theaters, and opera houses turn into a complete lack of any identity at all?
We are going to pay for it regardless. The debt is unserviceable. Most of the debt is for degrees that can not earn enough salary to cover the debt in the person’s lifetime. The subsidization and pushing everyone into college was a retarded idea and we engaged in it wholly as a society and we will pay for it. We can either pay for it in a way that earns us political clout or we can pay for it when the over-leveraged system completely collapses.
Biden is being who he always was, and who most of us KNEW he was.
He wasn’t suddenly co-opted. Come on, man!
Yes. It makes “Thy Kingdom come” very faceted and poignant.
But it’s never been enactable until now. And they are doing so.
Well, Jesus gave us specific instructions and information about the end times.
Including Ronald Reagan, whom Gary claims to follow.
Specific? I don’t remember anything in Revelations about “Yea unto the second term of Biden” or the like, and even if there was, does that mean Joe Biden, or Jill Biden, or Hunter Biden, or some perhaps yet unknown grandchild…
And how would Biden be written in Aramaic, or Hebrew, or Greek…
There’s a difference between replacing a culture (??), and displacing a people (settlers in America or Australia) and demographic change within a society (immigration).
These are three different things. It doesn’t serve us well to conflate them.
I’m not conflating. I’m specifically talking about the erasure of white American culture by calling it racist, by inserting “colored” people into IP that culturally comes from white Europeans while refusing to allow whites to the same with other cultures’ IP, and the incredible insistence that white Americans have no culture.
I know that it’s not black people dance (which is ALL THE RAGE), but swing dancing, the waltz, and the reel are legitimate white culture dancing that has been denigrated and smashed to pieces because other cultures are superior to ours. I’m sorry, but am I supposed to be the white supremacist for pointing out the cultural trends in this country have been pointing to the worship of black people and their culture, culminating in bended knee during the 2020 Love Riots?
Are you suggesting something untoward about our Dear Leader?
There is a lot to this. It’s the same thing with homes before 2008. The government changes the behavior of citizens and vice versa.
Well it seems like if the “specific instructions and information” don’t mention Biden by name, there’s little reason to believe they prove it’s happening NOW. People have been interpreting Revelation to mean “the end times are here!” for hundreds of years.
The author ignores the 800-pound gorilla in the room. Our country was forever changed by the Great Depression and FDR’s authoritarian response.
The state of the Republican Party after World War II was so dire that Eisenhower ran as a Republican in 1952 simply because he feared one-party (Democrat) rule. The House was fully controlled by Democrats from 1954 to 1994 (40 years!). The Senate was controlled by Democrats for 26 straight years (1954 to 1980). In 1965, LBJ had a super-majority in the Senate 68-32 and a 180-seat majority in the House.
Conservatives like to say that this is a center-right country. The truth is, it has been center-left since 1932. That’s why the left controls our universities, schools, media, corporations, entertainment, etc. We’ve only had three conservative “blips” since 1932: Reagan, the Contract with America, and Trump. That’s it.
Conservatism is not popular. We delude ourselves by believing otherwise.
So what?
My complaint is that conservatives have not been doing anything to win. It does not seem like you are claiming them are winning.
It sounds like you are saying there was not strategy that would have work d and I am somehow ignoring that.
Democrats from the 50s and 60s and even 70s are not like Democrats now.
Nah, self-righteous despair is more fun.
IP?
Plus: Musicals!! (Still popular.)
I’m surprised that waltzing is being cancelled because white.
It’s a marketplace. People glom onto what they like.
Also – American culture is mostly white culture. With some exceptions white culture isn’t a subculture, it’s the default.
How about the whole idea that rock and roll was a totally black music, stolen by whites, rather than the mix that it truly is? And how guys like Elvis get ripped as cultural appropriators and thieves for supposedly stealing the culture they knew, grew up in and respected?
Waltzing, swing, etc used to be middle class party dancing. Go to a location, turn on some music, start dancing, and the dance would be those.
There was a devolution to an orgy-like twerk and hip hop that occurred in night clubs over the last several decades. If you waltz, you are a snob. If you can swing, you dished out a lot of money for dance lessons. If you go to an average night club, no one is swinging or waltzing.
It isn’t just a marketplace thing when the publicized view is whites engaging in white culture are Basic B**ches, snobs, or evil, racist rednecks (line dancing/country reel). It isn’t just marketplace when I can point to several 90s dance movies that put white girls in the ghetto to have their dance styles and naïveté mocked and ridiculed as inferior to ghetto culture. White Chicks spent most of the movie making fun of white girls for being SO white that the compassionate subtext of rich, white pathologies is almost completely lost and the takeaway is “be less white”. I became embarrassed for liking a song because of that movie. Stupid? Yes. I was 18. So rather NORMAL.
The best stuff existing that doesn’t denigrate white culture is coming from Hallmark Christmas movies and tv series adapted from romance novels (Steel Magnolias, Virgin River).
IP = intellectual property. Cinderella, Little Mermaid, Princess and the Frog, STAR WARS, etc…
Musicals – only gay men and performing arts students like musicals. Everyone else who dares to like musicals are overwhelmingly mocked – because they are mocked by favored characters in common tv shows. Now, to have taste, you should dislike musicals. The only musicals that are allowed to be highly regarded tick a minority box.
Musicals where they pretend the Founding Fathers were black, perhaps?
Yes! And that even colors our perception of history! I grew up with an overwhelmingly negative view of Hamilton from a conservative position. He’s the guy behind the National Bank, right? But he’s useful to modern, left politics.
Portraying him as black in our culture gives him an almost untouchable aura while debate swirls around the founding fathers being racist. You don’t need to be well informed in our culture to now have a “feeling” that Jefferson was the bad guy and Hamilton the good guy, and that perception colors how one receives new knowledge. Hamilton = good, National bank and federal reserve and centralized government = good. It’s building connections without having to actually learn the words or the debate.
I’ve learned a bit about early education as a mom trying to work with my kids. There are tricks to patterns and sorting that teach kids later, complex skills before they ever learn them.
Hamilton capitalizes on those early learning skills. The student is learning to sort good and bad before learning the issues surrounding the men.
Do you really think this is because of critical race theory? Nobody is doing traditional African or Indian dance either.
I think you don’t understand what I’m saying. White culture has been denigrated as nothingness. Have you not heard (for decades) that white people can’t dance? White people food is terrible (we make fun of it all the time even here!)? Have you not seen the memes of the Basic B*tch? Have you not heard people who embrace classical music as nerds and out of touch? Have you not heard the mocking of small town life in modern culture? Are you unaware of the requirement to diversify old European stories while people demand proper ethnic actors for any other property?
It isn’t new. It isn’t CRT. This has been ongoing since the 90s at least.
And yes, twerking has deeper roots in African cultures than it does in western civilization. Most of modern dancing and nightclub life is reenacting massive orgies from pagan worship without the actual sex.
Mores the pity.
I liked Hamilton long before a musical I have not seen. Jefferson was foolish about the reality of Man, and, when get got into power, turned out to be an utter hypocrite. Had Adams engaged in the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson would have been apoplectic. Jefferson is the heart and soul of the Democrat party going back to the founding of the party: “Different rules for us when we are in power”.
No they’re not. But does that matter? They planted their foul seeds decades ago and are now reaping the harvest.
My point is that we American conservatives pretend that conservatism is popular when it is not. Our problems go way beyond outsourcing our manufacturing.
I totally, 100% agree with this.
This is one version of it. It’s not comprehensive, but it’s pretty instructive.
http://financialrepressionauthority.com/2017/07/26/the-roundtable-insight-george-bragues-on-how-the-financial-markets-are-influenced-by-politics/
Woodrow Wilson set up a feedback loop that has never been interdicted by the GOP. Then that changes the electorate.
And you are more knowledgeable than just “Hamilton is good, Jefferson is bad”. You can engage on the topic better than someone who just watched Hamilton. I’m sure you are better able to say some of the things Hamilton supported were not good. I’m sure you are able to agree with subsidiarity while liking a lot of Hamilton’s other positions. I’m sure you are capable of having a deep conversation on the pros and cons of federalism without saying “Hamilton was for central government, so it must be good.”
My comments about using Hamilton’s casting as a pre-emptive sorting mechanism prior to learning the substance of the issues still stands even if I think everything in the first paragraph of this comment is true.