Politics is down stream from the culture. American culture has shifted left since the 1960’s. You win the culture war you win the political war, the other side understands this.
We can't even win one fight. This shit about super straight is for children and Boomers. It's not important. Yes, it's a culture war. We should be fighting it at all times. But this isn't it. We fight the culture war by calling out ALL homosexuals in MAGA and telling them they need to shut the fuck up. We don't want people like Scott Presler or Ric Grenell speaking for us. Presler is the worst of all.
Exact opposite, I think. I've lived the whole period of Republican Congresses. I graduated HS just about when the Reps took back Congress after decades.
Ever since Gingrich was ousted - and for all his flaws he pushed and took the fight to the Left on Cultural issues - it's been "Let's worry about the dry stuff". Well, when Gingrich was in, the Federal Balanced Budget Amendment was a thing and the Budget almost balanced for several years.
The Budget was Balanced because the Lefties were too busy trying to protect against Welfare Reform, Crime Leniency, and the FUNDAMENTAL CULTURAL BASIS underlying Leftism. The Lefties were on the backfoot trying to justify how 30+ years of subsidizing Bastard Factories was a viable policy, or blubber desperately about why it wasn't a good idea to have victims testify at the sentencing of violent criminals. COPS, Silence of the Lambs, even the XFiles had a vibe that subtly pushed parts of conservative worldviews.
We lost because when Gingrich was ousted PRECISELY because RINOs were unhappy with his focus on Clinton's ethics and cultural issues, the focus became "Deregulate the Banks and start Endless Wars. Debt? Go Shopping! Don't worry about the rising tide of LGBTQ+ and Anti-White attitudes, it's just a phase, who cares about cultural issues, we will win on bread and butter tax cuts!". We not only lost the Balanced Budget which was in our grasp, but also from Trannies being likely Mentally Ill Abusers/Serial Killers to you're a bigot if you won't sleep with one.
We have to Concentrate on Cultural Issues in order to win on the Policy Issues.
As another poster said, Politics is Downstream from Culture. We can and will lose on policy if we don't take back (because we've lost it, there's no more defense, no more land or time to trade for delay, we have to go on offense) the Cultural Source.
When people asked what they could do in the wake of 9/11, the attitude in the Bush admin was very 21st Century:
"Go Shopping"
One other old fart memory: In the 90s, Lefties were desperately clinging to things like "Communitarianism" after their beloved USSR had failed to materialize and while their beloved Weathermen were still serving their prison sentences.
You could literally feel the fresh wind in their backs and the light in their eyes after 9/11, when they started to realize they could play the whole neocolonialist card again.
One final old fart memory: Almost every rock concert from the 90s going into the 2000s had a table or somebody wearing a Free Tibet shirt. Sometime around the end of the Bush era, "Free Tibet" all but disappeared, replaced with "As a Half-Inuit Lesbian of Color..." crap.
How long I've been here does not mean I'm new to the fight. You act like since you've been on an internet forum, you know more than someone else. Check yourself.
Fuck outta here handshake, this board has always been for memes, high energy Trump support and a slice of news. If you don't like it go tf back to Reddit or wherever it is you came from. No different than some liberal Californian moving to Arizona and trying to tell people there how to do things. When in Rome newbie.
It's not important. No one cares. We care about Biden's EO. Quit filling the forum with useless shit.
I think people are capable of dealing with more than one thing at once. This is a total culture war
Politics is down stream from the culture. American culture has shifted left since the 1960’s. You win the culture war you win the political war, the other side understands this.
We can't even win one fight. This shit about super straight is for children and Boomers. It's not important. Yes, it's a culture war. We should be fighting it at all times. But this isn't it. We fight the culture war by calling out ALL homosexuals in MAGA and telling them they need to shut the fuck up. We don't want people like Scott Presler or Ric Grenell speaking for us. Presler is the worst of all.
You join 3 days ago. After Trump lost... and want to come in saying you know best? Fuck off faggot.
Gatekeeping isn't a valid rebuttal. Don't be like the left. The man has a point.
ANYTHING that disrupts the opposition is acceptable in total war. Strategy relies on all tactics.
Grenell is a fucking hero. Unless I missed your /s tag nope, don't see it.
No. He's not one of us. He will be marginalized. For us, it's also about morality. Maybe not for you.
I see why y'all are extinct. Short sighted as fuck.
Exact opposite, I think. I've lived the whole period of Republican Congresses. I graduated HS just about when the Reps took back Congress after decades.
Ever since Gingrich was ousted - and for all his flaws he pushed and took the fight to the Left on Cultural issues - it's been "Let's worry about the dry stuff". Well, when Gingrich was in, the Federal Balanced Budget Amendment was a thing and the Budget almost balanced for several years.
The Budget was Balanced because the Lefties were too busy trying to protect against Welfare Reform, Crime Leniency, and the FUNDAMENTAL CULTURAL BASIS underlying Leftism. The Lefties were on the backfoot trying to justify how 30+ years of subsidizing Bastard Factories was a viable policy, or blubber desperately about why it wasn't a good idea to have victims testify at the sentencing of violent criminals. COPS, Silence of the Lambs, even the XFiles had a vibe that subtly pushed parts of conservative worldviews.
We lost because when Gingrich was ousted PRECISELY because RINOs were unhappy with his focus on Clinton's ethics and cultural issues, the focus became "Deregulate the Banks and start Endless Wars. Debt? Go Shopping! Don't worry about the rising tide of LGBTQ+ and Anti-White attitudes, it's just a phase, who cares about cultural issues, we will win on bread and butter tax cuts!". We not only lost the Balanced Budget which was in our grasp, but also from Trannies being likely Mentally Ill Abusers/Serial Killers to you're a bigot if you won't sleep with one.
We have to Concentrate on Cultural Issues in order to win on the Policy Issues.
As another poster said, Politics is Downstream from Culture. We can and will lose on policy if we don't take back (because we've lost it, there's no more defense, no more land or time to trade for delay, we have to go on offense) the Cultural Source.
When people asked what they could do in the wake of 9/11, the attitude in the Bush admin was very 21st Century:
"Go Shopping"
One other old fart memory: In the 90s, Lefties were desperately clinging to things like "Communitarianism" after their beloved USSR had failed to materialize and while their beloved Weathermen were still serving their prison sentences.
You could literally feel the fresh wind in their backs and the light in their eyes after 9/11, when they started to realize they could play the whole neocolonialist card again.
One final old fart memory: Almost every rock concert from the 90s going into the 2000s had a table or somebody wearing a Free Tibet shirt. Sometime around the end of the Bush era, "Free Tibet" all but disappeared, replaced with "As a Half-Inuit Lesbian of Color..." crap.
None of what you said matters in 2021.
This is an open forum. If the content is popular it will rise to the top, if it is unpopular it will fade into irrelevance.
How about you engage in content that interests you and kindly shut the fuck up about topics that don't interest you.
ditto
Hand shaker trying to tell us what to post. Cute.
How long I've been here does not mean I'm new to the fight. You act like since you've been on an internet forum, you know more than someone else. Check yourself.
Just checked myself, I'm better looking and right. Weird..
Fuck outta here handshake, this board has always been for memes, high energy Trump support and a slice of news. If you don't like it go tf back to Reddit or wherever it is you came from. No different than some liberal Californian moving to Arizona and trying to tell people there how to do things. When in Rome newbie.
It is very important, overlooking culture is what got us into this mess in the first place.