Culture is downstream of politics, so if we want better elections then we need to capture aspects of culture. In various websites I see many of the same items listed. Ok, so you tell me. In which of these are progressives the weakest?
- Media
- Academia/universities
- Hollywood
- Government
- Sports
- Protesting (Not rioting)
- Religion/Churches
- Social media
- K12 schools
- Corporations
- Tech
- Talk radio
Even though it is a subset of "media", I added talk radio to this list to demonstrate a thought process. Sometimes, a subset of a larger item is what is needed. Talk radio is indeed active in culture, and its a part of media. But its a subset that progressives don't control.(and they hate it that they don't control it)
So, in this list which one do you believe progressives are weakest? Is there a subset where you think they might be weakest? What kinds of things can individuals do to target that weakness and exploit it?
I'll go first. I happen to think progressivism's stronghold is Media as a whole. One of their weakest points is probably tech. One way to significantly damage tech is this: Anybody can write a program, open source it, and in so doing cut off tech's funding. We could defund the beast in very short order if we actually focused and tried to do it. Just thinking.
In this respect, there's no question that tech is weaker than media. You tell me.
The bottom line is this: If we are going to move forward, we need to find that weakest link and burn it.
A definition of progressive couldn't hurt. My 1945 Politics dictionary offers social reformer, 1924 LaFollette party, an 1887 Socialist Labor party in NY, and TR's disaffected Bull Moose Republicans pushing a Manifesto income tax. To many, "looter" covers all these.
ReplyDeleteI strongly agree with this Hank, and that's what the audiobooks are for. Progressives have moved heaven and earth to erase the years found inbetween 1900 - 1920, which tells me that there's gold in those hills that needs to be excavated.
DeleteThey can't hide their history if its on Youtube and been downloaded from librivox thousands or tens of thousands of times.
If Theodore Roosevelt were alive today, proud proud Progressive that he was, he would be outraged and probably in a fist fight with someone over the fact that people say that progressivism = socialism. He wrote about this because he didn't like that idea. Progressivism and socialism are starkly different.