Originally Posted at Free Market Shooter – Authored by Yung Nixon
America is in a full blown culture war. Conservatives should pause and reevaluate before the upcoming Midterms. What cultural and communication strategies are working? What can conservatives do to persuade and triumph come November?
Here are three practical tips for strengthening the conservative position in 2018.
Drop the victimhood status. Full stop.
America has a far-left, “ungovernable” populous, eager to enact terror on political dissidents. These are the hate crime hoaxers and mob bullies. Conservatives, if attacked, earn no sympathy or remorse. The cottage industry that creates national outrage hates Trump. So the mainstream media will not permit blossoming sympathy for Trump’s supporters, however brutalized or humiliated.
For Democrats, this partisan imbalance is a feature not a bug. Flaunting their unequal application of the law is their goal. Through endless media hysterics, Democrats know they can foster domestic terrorists. These brainwashed folks become hellbent on building a far left utopia, and will shoot up a field of congressmen to achieve it.
An anarchist then a marxist were behind the two 20th Century presidential assassinations. The same might some day apply to this century.
Conservatives must realize complaining about abuse is a non-starter. They won’t make headway through victim status. If you do receive a ton of abuse, it’s best to find a humorous way to diminish your tormenters. Or buy a gun to defend yourself.
Consider how Paul Joseph Watson republishes his Facebook death threats with comedic levity. Then consider Laura Loomer’s much-parodied tire incident. She wrung her fists with so much righteous indignation and fury. Do the math. The comedian gets clicks, the complainer gets unfollows.
Victimhood isn’t cool. Too often, conservatives who suffer abuse attempt to rally sympathy and discover none. That’s intentional and part of the culture war. Accept it. Democrats are merciless with their hypocrisy.
Be funny. I’m not joking.
Believe it or not, Liberals read the Bible. Except they call it “Rules for Radicals,” a book dedicated to Lucifer by its author Saul Alinsky. His fifth rule asserts that “ridicule is man’s most potent weapon”
(Quote) It’s hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.
This is the biggest mistake conservatives make. Conservatives attract ridicule when trying to make everything so serious and earnest. The funniest conservatives are Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos. They are notorious and reviled among the left. The left wants every conservative in pop culture to be dry, bald, white, and seriously boring. Let’s not give our enemy what they want.
President Trump is a riot. He delivers humor with ease. That’s a huge chunk of his appeal. Roseanne is funny. Greg Guttfield is funny. Is Brian Kilmeade funny? Is Sean Hannity funny?
They are sometimes funny. Yet none can hold a feather to the scathing political satire the left delivers to the nation nightly. For the right to advance, it needs comedians who understand delivery. They should be self-aware with cultural critique in abundance. Right wing satire can push the Overton window to new territory. It should be on TV, hosted somewhere besides Fox News.
If we don’t do this, we’ll be at the whims of the cultural police and their dictates for what “tasteful” jokes we can make. And they’ll keep a good chunk of the population held hostage to their propagandistic humor.
Drop the QAnon thing.
This part is less for the Washington folks, and more for the country-at-large. Washington’s crowd has plenty of gossip to mire within. Their proximity with DC is a natural buffer against the more salacious online theories. Though across the country many activists have become gripped by QAnon’s posts. These people could be mobilizing for the midterms, but instead spread this cryptic conspiracy.
For those who don’t know, QAnon is an anonymous 4Channer who claims to have “Q” security clearance. He (or she) asserts to have special access from within the Trump administration. Q’s posts detail the Trump administration’s efforts to “drain the swamp.” There’s also promise of a “great awakening” and many clichés about a time of good and evil coming to clash.
Nobody knows who QAnon is. Whoever is behind the crypto-religious anonymous posts is doing more damage than good. It could even be purposeful and nefarious. This fanatic movement distracts from real news, and creates complacency among Trump’s most valuable support system: the internet.
I can’t decide if it’s fact or fiction. But I do see the mob-like evangelism of QAnon’s cryptic musings as a roadblock to progress. So many people posting the same stuff online seems cultish.
Conservatives should unhitch from QAnon. Sorry Roseanne. Check Q’s posts as often as you’d like, but don’t buy stock in it. QAnon is leading nice people to a place that seems way too bizarre for the average person to process. Come midterms, we may find ourselves wearing tinfoil hats rather than MAGA caps, more unable than ever to speak with the other side.
So QAnon may be the real deal. It might be a new form of performance art. Or it’s a scam. To me, QAnon is a clever trap that isolates active internet users. It herds them into an impenetrable clump of conspiracy. QAnon won’t help with midterms. Instead, Q wastes a ton of time and energy that well-intended people could spend elsewhere.
To wrap it all up.
Underpinning Trump’s campaign were splashes of confidence, machismo, humor, and defiance. Trump’s supporters had, and still have, serious issues to discuss. If we fall into a the pattern of a centralized, humorless, complaint-ridden mob, we will lose. If we become a strange mob of conspiracy touting techno-nerds, we lose.
We should focus again on the funny, kind, sober, and uplifting outlook that swept the nation to earn Trump his job. Let’s continue making America great again without all the vitriol.
Actually support freedom, liberty, small government, sound foreign policy, private property rights, etc. instead of just paying them lip service simply to get elected. Americans are tired of getting screwed over by lying politicians from BOTH major parties that don’t give a shit or a rat’s ass about anything other than maintaining their control on power and handing out favors to their campaign donors and other “special friends.” That thing you are going to take an oath to protect and uphold is called the Constitution. It places SPECIFIC limitations on the power of ALL 3 branches of government. Don’t vote for, allow to exist, or support, ANY proposal, government policy, or existing government agency that is in clear violation of those limits, and IMPEACH anyone from either of the other two branches of government that doesn’t honor their oath to that document. Pretty simple stuff that NONE of the major parties have been able to do for 229 years now.
There is no voting our way out of this……
There are 4 boxes to be used in the defense of liberty.
They are:
1. The soap box
2. The ballot box
3. The jury box
4. The ammo box
Which box are you using?
They only let you use the jury box if you aren’t completely forthcoming to them about your intentions once seated on the jury. Most folks also never get the chance to sit on a jury that is hearing a case that involves a consensual act the government has deemed illegal. All the cases I have sat on have been murder or attempted murder, and while I have used my common sense and logic (not generally allowed these days) to bring about what I believed were fair verdicts, I somehow think that I will never be seated on a drug/prostitution/gambling/statutory rape case, etc.
The Pine Box.
You know, where I’m from everyone has the ammunition and firearms supply well covered. Even many a pillow has a pistol under it. We hear about things that happen in Democrat controlled states and can only dream for it to happen here. Every now and then people can use a break and go do something mischievous like trolling the socialists. Once they’re bloviating about whatever and you got them nailed to being a SJW, one of my favorite questions will always lead to a comment section blowout:
“I guess you’re still pissed off because that cunt Hillary lost the election?”
Go ahead, try it, and watch what happens.
Cuntlary, I hate the fucking word hillary….like mononymous ass hats prince bono cher madona.
Practical would be admitting there is no material difference between the 2 faces of the Uniparty, as far as elections are concerned.
When a Democrat talks I know I’m being lied too. When a Gov’t talks to me same thing. We have come to a point in this country that you are either right or left and never will either side say they are wrong. Me I just keep buying ammo, can’t stand Collage kids or what they think they believe in. To old to care and they are too young to know a damn thing. Facebook and all the rest of that crap is worse than anything but don’t go there for once you get kicked off for saying what you think but you hurt someones feeling my what a nasty person you are. So that in it selfs says what is wrong and neither side will ever give one inch so like I said I just buy more ammo.