Sometimes it’s good to step back and try to take a big picture view of things going on in the world. It’s easy to get caught up in the social media and dumpster fires of culture war controversy that flash up constantly. The Jason Aldean controversy, which I mentioned in my last two blog posts, is one of those flash ups, but here’s the thing – if the right/more conservative side wins the public relations battle against CMT or even inflicts some damage on CMT’s bottom-line, the outcome of that controversy isn’t going to amount to much in the vast leftist power grabs and cultural battles the left has won for decades, usually without even a fight.
Speaking up, even in these small cultural flash up controversies, matters, so please don’t think I’m trying to discourage people speaking up. Each small victory or having the courage to speak up, even when “popular” opinion is raging in the other direction, can encourage other people to speak up too. Free speech matters in America and whenever there’s an effort to silence opposing views, that should be like a rallying cry for Americans to stand firm on free speech – even controversial and “unpopular” speech. Stella Morabito, an analyst and writer explains why it matters to speak out in this video:
I’m trying to wrap my head around this latest Dem concern with having the federal government focus on combating loneliness. This effort will likely be sold as an effort to deal with the mental health crisis in America and the serious drug addiction problem and that pits you as being challenged about “You don’t’ care about the mentally-ill or drug addicts?” In fact, when I mentioned this new bill being introduced to someone with differing political views than mine, he dismissed my concerns about government power grabs and said, they only want to put money towards the addiction problem in America. And his trust in the government’s good intentions surprised me.
The challenges to counter and defeat the left’s vast “reimagining” America project, that’s been underway for decades, is masked in benign “helping” words. Many of the left’s efforts lull and con millions of Americans to let down their guard and even be amenable to vast federal power grabs and to buy into the false premises that lay the groundwork for the Democrat legislation that follows the propaganda effort to sell the narrative. No one wants to be labeled a bigot, mean, uncaring, a hater, racist, etc. and that sort of demonization and marginalizing that befalls people who challenge the liberal mass media narrative effort.
During the pandemic, the federal government and mass media stoked fear of an unknown contagious disease to con us into surrendering all sorts of rights – free speech, free movement, free association, and even forcing compliance to getting experimental vaccines in order to keep your job or have access to goods, medical services and travel. I honestly didn’t believe it was a con until after I read Klaus Schwab’s book: COVID-19: The Great Reset – long after 2020, but he published this book in the summer of 2020 and was writing it in the beginning of the pandemic. He stated that they knew this would be the least deadly pandemic in history and he also explained how all these pandemic social mitigation efforts could lay the foundations of social control for accelerating the green energy transformation.
The “helping” words during the pandemic centered on compliance to the new dictates meant you cared about other people and if you challenged the new impositions on your life and liberty, well, then you were a bad person and, as one conservative writer got labeled, “a grandma-killer.”
Even more than the COVID messaging war, the US government, both Dems and many Republicans, poured over $4.7 trillion dollars into COVID-spending and a lot of that money poured into other Dem culture war issues and their climate agenda. Last year, Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, to the tune of $500 billion dollars in new spending. The Inflation Reduction Act was another of those benign word Dem games, because while Republicans were arguing about the “inflation reduction” issues in the bill, they completely missed the boat that this Dem bill was really about pouring more money into the green energy transition effort and other DEI programs. They initially were arguing about “inflation reduction” (a false premise set by deceptive title of bill), while Dems were really ramming through more green energy spending. That “inflation reduction” act also funded 87,000 new IRS agents.
Whether the right wins some largely social media PR battle against Bud Light or CMT, and even damages their bottom lines, those are small fry issues when Dems have pushed through trillions in federal spending to enact their green transition and social change policies across America. The little battles and big battles matter, but don’t sit back and declare victory, because the left has laid the groundwork for their culture war over decades, while the right gets worked up about one hot button issue or another, but remains largely disorganized and dysfunctional at countering the Democrat agenda or the left’s vast culture war effort that’s fought on media and social media every day.
The right-wing media and political class now spend more time operating as a circular firing squad and wasting time with their own identity political problem – the MAGA vs. RINO dramas than fighting the left, but for this post, let’s put that aside and look at a new Democrat power grab in the works – The National Strategy for Social Connection Act, which Senator Chris Murphy introduced July 18, 2023.
Many people, whose views fall on the political right, often are late to the game in understanding the American political left’s march through the institutions, ramming through social and political change, that’s been ongoing since the 1960s. That leftist movement has grown and advanced, while on the right, it seems to me, most people on the right don’t understand the scope of the left’s culture war and have never organized effectively to counter it. On some issues, I realize I have been slow to catch on to the left’s bigger objectives too, but if you only became aware of ESG or the UN 2030 Agenda goals in the past couple years, boy, you’re many years behind, because ESG initiatives started way back when GWB was president and the UN 2030 Agenda was passed in 2015, when Obama was president. If you wonder why you weren’t aware, don’t be too hard on yourself, because so often these left-wing policies are masked behind unicorn and rainbow phrases that we don’t even see the power grabs. I am one of those annoying people who always asks, “what does that really mean?” and I still sometimes get conned by the left’s word games.
Stella Morabito, whose video I linked above, is a former CIA analyst and she was ahead of the curve on identifying this new concern about loneliness among the left.. She wrote, Mass Conformity and the Weaponization of Loneliness, in 2020. Later she wrote three pieces at The Federalist last year. The links to those are at her blog in this post: Government Plan to “Cure” Loneliness Will Cause Even More Loneliness and she published a book last year, The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer. I am reading her book on Hoopla, which I can access with my library card.
Morabito was also way ahead of the curve in explaining how the left was targeting local elections, especially local school board elections to push their CRT and trans agenda, long before the right was even talking about or showing up to protest at school board meetings.
Speaking up, even in small ways, matters, but on the right we need to keep our eyes wide open to the bigger picture policies and actions too. A bill being sold as about combating “loneliness” seems to me like it’s about monitoring and controlling private organizations in communities all across America and even putting the levers in place to try to use federal muscle to interfere in local zoning policies. Even more ominous is this bill proposes:
(E) to the maximum extent practicable, coordinate with international bodies to integrate
and inform the global mission to improve social connection;” page 10
Government is always about power, not about being your friend or helping you make friends. For private relationships and connections to flourish requires a private sphere, where we’re able to associate and speak freely, with no government monitors to manage our lives.
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BINGO!”Whether the right wins some largely social media PR battle against Bud Light or CMT, and even damages their bottom lines, those are small fry issues when Dems have pushed through trillions in federal spending to enact their green transition and social change policies across America.”
Robert, So far, the only Republican candidate for president that seems to grasp the need for detailed plans to even attempt to roll back the massive administrative state & tentacles of green and DEI agenda embedded in federal legislation is DeSantis. Although, there are a few things I don’t like about his approach.
He recognizes it’s going to take pouring over regulations & looking at all the nooks and crannies within our sweeping bureaucracy to try to clean house, not putting on rally sideshows or engaging in spin battles with the media or fighting other “RINOs.”
It will take more than cutting personnel or blabbering about “draining the swamp.” Frankly, I don’t know if it’s even possible at this late date, with both parties so addicted to spending more and more money, that the government doesn’t even have.