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Conservatives and traditionalists are often exasperated at the ongoing woke cultural revolution in their midst.
How can America be turned upside down, as it is, when there is little public support for the things happening around us?
They don’t see much backing for the current border policy and illegal immigration, yet it continues.
Conservatives feel that most Americans reject the trend of biological men dominating female sporting events.
They fear American jurisprudence has become now vastly weaponized and warped.
Certainly, former President Donald Trump will be more likely indicted by a politicized New York City prosecutor for supposedly overvaluing his net worth over a decade ago than would be a current violent street criminal clubbing a subway commuter.
In 2020 torching a federal courthouse or massing at the White House grounds, in efforts to get at the president, earned either few arrests and little or no jail time. In 2021, if one entered the Capitol and illegally paraded around like a buffoon, he could get a five-year prison sentence.
Traditionalists feel that sky-high energy prices, out-of-control urban crime, a depressed economy, high interest rates, and a politicized FBI, CIA, Justice Department, and Pentagon are all needlessly self-created messes.
How then did these extremist policies that have little popular support become institutionalized?
Conservatives, by their nature and unlike the Left, are more inclined to accept existing institutions rather than to radically alter or destroy them.
They were asleep at the wheel in 2020, when left-wing-funded lawsuits radically transformed Election Day in many states into a mere construct. Some 70 percent of the electorate in key precincts voted by mail or early, with far fewer ballot audits or authentication.
They focus on nominating more conservative judges, not packing the court itself. They work to take back the Senate, not to end the filibuster or bring in two new states with four new senators.
Traditionalists often feel they have no time for politics. They prefer to focus on their families, jobs, communities, and churches. Until recently they shunned organized boycotts. They abhor massing outside the homes of left-wing politicians and judges.
They shrug and concede that universities, teachers, government unions, the corporate boardroom, Wall Street, Silicon Valley, the media, entertainment, and professional sports are hopelessly activist and left-wing.
The environmental, social, governance (ESG), diversity, equity, and inclusion, and LGBQT+ agendas were unfathomable acronyms to Middle America and thus mostly ignored.
So conservatives often slept through the woke revolution.
Yet suddenly they realize their apathy allowed the country to descend into something the nation’s founders never imagined or intended, and antithetical to what most knew as America just a couple of decades ago.
So conservatives are awakening from their slumber. And they are discovering that they too can boycott, agitate – and roar.
The woke Target corporation in just a few days has suffered a more than $10 billion loss in its stock value. Millions of shoppers shunned its 2,000 stores after the chain showcased its “pride” apparel. The displays featured “tuck pieces” – veritable codpieces – that are intended to facilitate “women’s” male genitalia.
Anheuser-Busch came up with the bright idea that it would highlight Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender performance activist, to hawk its Bud Light brand. But beer seemed incidental to the self-absorbed Mulvaney’s fixation on promoting transgenderism. So Bud Light-drinking, red-state America got turned off by Mulvaney’s in-your-face-advocacy.
An ensuing informal boycott cost the company nearly $16 billion in lost stock value. Hundreds of millions of dollars of unsellable light beer stagnated. Stores can’t even give it away. Meanwhile, Bud Light’s competitors coped with meeting record Memorial Day consumer demand.
Ditto the defiantly woke Disney Corporation.
The now politically activist entertainment corporation insisted on pushing woke agendas down the throats of its family-centered audience.
The result? Its online entertainment services are bleeding millions of subscribers. Disney stock has lost $16 billion in value. Its overpriced theme parks no longer count on continual increased attendance.
Sometimes traditionalists prefer simply to drop out rather than boycott wokeism. One result is that the Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony awards now have a fraction of their previous televised audience.
In 1998 – when the United States had a population of 275 million – the NBA finals earned on average 29 million television viewers. This year the NBA bragged its finals averaged a pathetic 4 million viewers in a contemporary America of 335 million.
The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team reinvited the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – a self-identified performance art “queer” group – to headline the team’s “pride night.”
The all-male “sisters” usually put on anti-Catholic pornographic skits that mock Jesus Christ and sexualize Christian rituals.
That Dodger indulgence is not going over well with its fan base, especially the city’s millions of Catholic Latinos.
The woke Left still enjoys enormous advantages over the Right. The bicoastal elite has far more money, controls all the major American institutions, and dominates the dissemination of knowledge through the media and Silicon Valley.
But the Left does not enjoy majority public support. And now it has managed the impossible – to goad the normally comatose conservative dragon to awaken.
And it is just starting to breathe fire.
Search for “The Great Awakening” on rumble it’s inspiring.
I’m pessimistic.
When any institution or corporation goes woke let it go broke
The problem is the woke corporation doesn’t really go broke. The loss in earnings/value/sales/whatever seems to be locked into an approximately 20% loss as a result of any boycott.. A 50% loss would change things dramatically. But the woke religion will tolerate 20% quite well. Maybe executives will feel forced to order the $200 dollar bottle of wine at lunch instead of the $250 dollar bottle. But I doubt that even this will happen.
Admire VDH but i wish i knew where he buys his rose-colored glasses
I know lots of conservatives who are still AARP members rather than switching to AMAC, use Verizon instead of Patriot Mobile or Puretalk, have Blackrock in their retirement funds, and buy tons of junk from Amazon. It’s not that difficult to find alternatives to most things. Mostly I just prefer not to give my money to communist deviants who want to destroy me and my family.
I doubt that if they’d held a plebiscite in the Soviet Union the Communist Party would have had majority support. Leftists don’t care about popular support. They’re the revolutionary vanguard ushing in a new society irrespective of what the people want. They’ll follow, er, be made to follow, no matter what they think. Similarly, The Left in this country now controls almost all of its institutions and they aren’t about to left a pesky thing like lack of popular support dissuade them. After all, in their minds they are the smartest and bestest people ever and anywhere. Why would they care what lesser mortals think or want?
So right, Kasandra (the unheeded prophetess).
Isn’t it ironic that those who think highly of themselves (and hold low opinions of others) are often wretched people in their private lives? The book by Paul Johnson called “Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky” was a devastating exposure of this fact.
You got one thing in particular very right. The leftist snobs who think they are smarter than we are and especially those in politics, social media and MSM think we are all peasants put here to fund their creepy and non sensical leftist agenda.
I think there is more to it. When we see a sitting judge, a guest speaker at Stanford, shouted down by law students who won’t let him speak, or a young woman hiding in a locked classroom for her own safety for criticizing trans women in women’s sports, we are not talking civil discourse or rational thinking. This has become an issue of theology versus heresy and heritics must burn. All I can say is God bless the fools at Anheuser Busch, Disney, and Target for waking the rest of us up. They stepped in it deep, and the stench will follow them where they go for a long time.
Sounds like conservatives are wide awake. They may not have figured out the best strategy. The first thing to do is give up on Washington. The feds are very powerful but they have an unassailable fortress in D.C. which they run ruthlessly. The Democrats will never permit Trump, DeSantis or any other Republican any victory in another presidential election. Not even the Republican Party will help with the House or Senate.
All our efforts must concentrate on the States. This is why good governors like DeSantis should stay home. Remember that despite all our setbacks. Nearly half the states have new pro-life laws protecting the unborn. More than half now have constitutional carry for firearms. Increasing numbers of states are enacting laws protecting children from unnecessary sexual mutilation. Nothing remotely like it could ever happen in Washington.
Concentrate on the states, even if it means eventual separation from those still controlled by the left.
Aren’t we really talking about God fearing, born again believers who won’t accept this evil being spread as something good vs those who reject God and want to indulge in all their sin.? Not sure what CONservative means anymore, but people are so afraid to speak the truth about our Creator and Savior Jesus Christ and the spiritual battle going on for our souls. The adversary wants nothing more than to draw people away from Christ so they end up in eternal condemnation, away from the Lord and SIN is what leads to death. All must come to repentance and belief in Jesus Christ who took our punishment on the cross and then rose from the dead, defeating death.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus Our Lord” Romans 6:23
John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
One thing that is needed is to set up local self defense units to defend local communities, in case society breaks down and higher levels of government can’t protect the local citizens from leftist bandits and such.
Perhaps it would work best to start on a block-by-block basis, just with the people you wave to when you get your mail. These units could easily be expanded, but let’s start small and grass roots. I don’t know if it would work on my block, where many people seem to be pretty far to the left (university professors), but there might be hope that they will see reason if things go bad.
I’ve been listening to this lame argument since the late 60s. The so called “ silent majority “ has stood by and done nothing for well over 50 years while the Left has organized , demonstrated and fought for its beliefs.
And now the Left is firmly in. control of virtually every important institution in the nation and baring its fangs
Will the “ ordinary , hard working and law abiding Americans “ rise up now and take back the nation ?
I wish but I doubt it. Based on the last half century my quess Is that the Silent Majority is more like the Cowardly Minority
The phrase “silent majority” was initially used by Petronius (yes, that Petronius, of the salacious verses) to describe the dead. After all, they far outnumber the living.
The dragon is proving to be a newt, but we can hope for better….
Anyone see that article on Breitbart about 70% Americans now accepting gay marriage?
Still, it is important to fight back.
One can only hope so..
I wish I was as optimistic as Vic – but I can’t be the way things are going.
Don’t count on Republicans to do anything but wring their limp wrists and whine. It’s like this…what’s the difference between a Republican “activist” and a stiff in the morgue? The morgue stiff is covered with a sheet and votes Democrat.