Sultan Knish (Daniel Greenfield) is one of my favorite bloggers and he’s got a good plan for how us individuals can combat the leftist takeover of government, news media, Hollywood and academia.
“The first stage of a culture war is to cease supporting the enemy. The second stage is to push back by building up your institutions that make your way of life possible. The third stage is to use those institutions against the enemy.”
In other words, the Sultan means we should stop buying the left’s newspapers and stop watching their news shows and movies and tuning into NPR-PBS and “leaving products with environmentalist tripe on the packaging on the shelf.”
Read the Sultan, Instapundit, Breitbart, and PJMedia, and patronize Fox News and the libertarian radio talker of your choice, if you’re so inclined. You could also stop attending that leftist church or synagogue. There are conservative ones available.
The left’s newspapers already are losing money and that can be extended to the other lefty news outlets some of which, like MSNBC, are said to be nearly broke. Hollywood could be wiped out by a good boycott of a dozen or so of their movies for several years running. Academia will be harder to turn but there’s already a significant trend to questioning whether a high-dollar college degree is worth it for finding a good job—it sure isn’t if you major in the so-called humanities.
The Sultan is right when he says voting simply ain’t gonna get it any more.
“Even if Republicans were to win the White House and dominate the House and the Senate, they would still face a totalitarian entity whose judges would make laws, whose media would subvert democracy, whose educational institutions and entertainment industry would reprogram the people and whose bureaucracy would undermine any decision that it did not like.”
We don’t even have a genuine two-party system anymore. Just one party, the leftist Dems and the Rhino right combined and in agreement more often than not. The Tea Party is too old and middle class and not only is being pummeled by the leftist media but is undercut by the Republican establishment as well. It’s gottta be a culture fight.
The Sultan does worry about people taking to the streets, a la Cairo and Ukraine. I doubt it very much. Even us disgruntled Americans are too comfortable to risk it all like that. And, besides, passive resistance works wonders. Millions are still refusing to sign up for ObamaCare. Even in Yankeeland Connecticut, thousands are refusing to register their guns and the state is just about powerless to do anything about it.
As Instapundit says: ” I love the people who say you could never deport all the illegals, but who think you could lock up all the gun owners.”
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 