Project Veritas’ latest video catches ex-PBS attorney Michael Beller as he dreams of using Joe Biden’s presidency as an opportunity to take the kids of Republicans to ‘enlightenment camps.’ PBS has since denounced Beller, but what is it that makes some activists so comfortable with their radical ideas that they’ll openly share them with a virtual stranger?
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The unrestrained liberal progressives will hit a dead end when they remove the conservatives who have ever been the foundations by which they spring forward. They sink as they always do without people who delay or sacrifice their own gratification to preserve or sustain what they place above themselves, something the left can never comprehend, as they always have their own skin 1st, even when they have children.
You are WRONG, Scott Ott as it pertains to the Social Media Monopolies. They cannot pick and chose who they do business with by virtue of how they were commissioned and their marketing models. And I expect you to correct yourself in an upcoming Right Angle episode.
The Social Media Companies were granted a Government Charter under the auspices of 47 U.S.C. § 230, a Provision of the Communication Decency Act in order to provide PLATFORMS for Public Discourse — rendering them protections from civil liability based on content in order to maintain an open, public forum. This is in contrast with PUBLISHERS who are subject to civil liabilities based on content.
First, these companies have violated the intent of Section 230 when they act as PUBLISHERS instead of PLATFORMS. The intent was a free exchange of information and ideas where all voices could be heard. In other words, they cannot eat their cake and keep it, too — they cannot call themselves PLATFORMS and then act like PUBLISHERS.
Second, these Companies with a Government Charter had their Section 230 protections threatened by Democrat Lawmakers if they did not silence Conservative voices (e.g. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrats-new-bill-targeting-fake-news-with-section-230-rollback-threatens-free-speech). This in fact is nothing more than Government Coercion of Private Companies to do for them what the Government is NOT allowed to do for themselves — “Censor our opposition, or lose your business model and your business.”
Third, the Big Tech Cartel MARKETED themselves as Free Speech PLATFORMS as intended by Section 230. If they then abuse the Government-granted privileges and act as PUBLISHERS, they have defrauded the Public through a “Bait and Switch.”
Fourth, comparing Big Tech giants that act as a Oligarchal cartel to a mom-n-pop Christian bakery that refuses to bake a Same-Sex Wedding Cake is a non sequitur. The Bakery does not own the marketplace and cannot buy up all the eggs, flour, sugar, etc. to prevent smaller, rival Bakeries from baking cakes to ‘celebrate’ the same-sex fraud. As we have seen from the Big Tech Cartel, they are able and willing to abuse monopolistic influence in the marketplace to bar entry. Moreover, since they have decided to act as PUBLISHERS, they now no longer require Section 230 and may lobby a Democrat-controlled Congress to strip those protections and close the market forever. Conservative Platforms without Section 230 will then be sued to death.
The closest “Private Enterprise” analogue you may make between Big Tech and another industry might be the Telephone Companies or the Airline Industry. How far do you think the Airlines would get if they all banded together and refused access to Black or Homosexual passengers? What if AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Xfinity shut off network access to Black or Homosexual patrons? And what if the aggrieved victims tried to start their own Airlines or Mobile Networks — only to see the Big Corporations threaten aircraft manufacturers and cell tower construction firms if they dared do business with the victims?
Finally, the Big Tech Cartels have violate Federal Election Laws and Regulations though massive, in-kind campaign donations. They effectively choked off or undermined Conservative advertisements and commentary on their platforms while green-lighting Leftist propaganda — especially on behalf of Leftist politicians and governmental bureaucracies.
The purpose of the Free Market is to act as an open Democracy where The People are able to “vote” with their wallets. Producers compete in open markets, and the best, most efficient products and services compete and are chosen in a fair marketplace. Whenever one enterprise is able to leverage their excessive market power to crush competition, or worse — violate the Natural Rights of the Consumers who have no other place to go — then they should be removed from the marketplace.
As a Constitutional Conservative and supporter of President Trump plus na commentator on Parler and user of Rumble which you should go to in my humble opinion, I found specifically Scott’s comments and overall take naive, myopic and even a bit delusional with respect.
The Left, the Liberal (defined as someone on the left wing of politics — the opposite of a conservative. Also, a liberal attitude toward anything means more tolerance for change. There are many meanings for liberal, but they mostly have to do with freedom and openness to change. A teacher with a liberal policy toward attendance is going to be forgiving of missed days. A bank with a liberal attitude toward your money would probably be bad: some things are awful if they’re loose and free. But no one will give you a hard time if you use a liberal amount of catsup on your fries.)
The Liberal Party of Truman & Kennedy started its Baton Death March in 1968 and slowly began to change into a MORE Radical Party. I believe that in 2009 days away from the Inauguration of obama when he declared for the “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION of AMERICA that the French Revolution was imported to “cleanse” the American Revolugtion b y the Democratic Socialists (OXYMORON). At first b y “baby steps” and then by Sip, Hop and Jump. The Party became the NEW Democratic Socialists (OXYMORON) Party and then went on to adopted INSANITY, ANTI-Americanism, FRAUD and TOTALITARIANISM coupled with the “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA.”
I would also contend that HOPE swill ONLY get one MORE HOPE and NOTHING else. For 4 years plus, the Party of INSANITY, ANTI-Americanism, FRAUD and TOTALITARIANISM has been on a personal Collectivist Jahad not ONLY to remove and destroy Donald J. Trump BUT , also, all his supporters. Riding along this imitation of the 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse are THE myopic, delusional, corrupt and very destructive IDEOLOGY making room for BIG Tech, the FAKE non-NEWS and “FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AMERICA.” This is a HOLY ALLIANCE and the GOAL is very clear and understandable.
Looking to the Republican Party which died a slow death in 1988 is a Fool’s errand. That Party has been replaced by the RHINO WHIG nDo NOTHING Party that recently morphed into the RHINO MWHIG Do NOTHING feckless spineless cowardly Democratic Socialists (OXYMORON) lite Party that seems to be aligning with the PARTY of INSANITY, ANTI-Americanism, FRAUD and TOTALITARIANISM to get along and belong, whereby, they can hold onto their Power and Control with a total disregard for We, the People.
WHAT? CHOICE do We, the People have at the moment?
It occurs to me that many of us became fans here because of these gentlemen’s ability to convey ideas concisely.
The company that was supposedly going to host Parler backed out. And with government holding any alternatives hostage with regulation and licensing, now what, Scott?
A couple of points that didn’t come up with regards to “conservatives” creating their own platforms. We believe in the rule of law and that it applies to everyone equally and should be applied to everyone. Therefore we expected that these platforms would remain open platforms and not become publishers, with editing (and censoring) capability. When they demonstrated that there had moved to become publishers, we expected that the rules of publisher would be enforced. Instead, we have show hearings, and the now publishers are still treated as platforms.
Now we know that there are two sets of laws. We need to react.
That said, if the 100,000,000 of YT users (and Twitter / FB / etc; which doesn’t include me, I left those some time back) would migrate en masse to Rumble / Parler or GAB / MEWE) regardless of short term impact on our bottom lines, that could have an impact. The slow migration or the , well we have to use YT in order to get the message out, means that they still get their way while damaging us.
The reason Parler was de-platformed was the threat of Trump taking a good portion of his followers with him. Good for GAB for capturing his entire Twitter thread and remaking it before Twitter banned him.
I think that day is coming, when there will be an exodus from YT and the other platforms, and it will cause a drop in revenue for a time, but maybe not as much as we’d like.
There are conservatives and others who are deeply concerned about what is happening who have already begun to try to find a way out of the near-monopolistic hold Google and AWS has. It’s going to take time and trial and error. The goal should be to move to a place where all opinions are free to be expressed when they are done with civility and respect.
AWS took down Parler because Parler dared to let all and sundry post without filtering. Any platform that conservatives build should not give in to the same vindictive urge to ban anything we don’t agree with and label it ‘dangerous’. I’d probably tend to think that what comes out of the keyboards of Lefties IS dangerous, vile, and ridiculous, but they have just as much right to their opinion as I do.
Maybe there could be 3 areas on our new platforms, one for people who want to post in an echo chamber for the Left, one for people who want an echo chamber for the Right, and one for people who want to hear from both sides. That last area is the one I’d put in ‘civility and respect’ ground rules. Otherwise it would devolve into poo-flinging pretty quickly. We’ve devolved into the Law of the Jungle in our discourse.
It would take time to train people on how to debate ideas and not behave like adolescents, name-calling and trying to tear people down instead of responding with counter-arguments to their ideas. Reclaiming this ground would take a long time, but it would benefit everyone.
Yes, I don’t want an echo chamber even one that echoes me. I want a open platform that anyone can use. If you don’t want to watch or listen to something that challenges you, turn it off.
But it also needs to come with a change to the “cancel culture” because people won’t discuss honestly if they think they will lose their livelihood for disagreeing with the mob.
That’s the part that concerns me the most, losing your job over your ideas. I work for a large company. Although it is very conservative, they recently started to focus on diversity and inclusion. I can’t imagine them conducting Critical Race Theory training, but then again I’ve seen quite a bit lately that I’d never thought I’d see. I’m close to retirement, but we still need my income for now. However, there’s no way I can submit to the stuff that CRT is said to require. Very concerning.
In Leftist Latin unity means “Absolute compulsory consolidation of ideas and actions to those befitting a collectivist society.”
Liberal Leaders: “were going to put them in prison for their beliefs and send their children to reeducation camps”
Moderate Liberals:
Is that Mitchell and Webb?
The coverage of this in the MSM has been pathetic. The treat this maternal fornicator as if he were the victim of a concerted hate campaign.
I understand where Scott is coming from but his premise wrong. It’s not that we are too lazy to create our own means to communicate or “our own networks”. The claim of they are private companies and can do whatever they like does not apply either, because the foundation on which they were created had certain rules by which that luxury doesn’t apply. I ask this: Let’s say we go to through the efforts and troubles to create our own networks and is all fine and good…. how long until those get infiltrated by the current leftist, fascist thinking and those networks get taken over again?
Scott, you keep forgetting that what they want is for us to think like they do. They are not about diversity of thought, and running away only continues the chase. That’s why their actions should not be allowed.
I just looked at the veritas video, what an arrogant and ignorant putz , Once again never explaining what Trump’s supposed crimes are.
They never can. They don’t feel they need to, because they are so obvious, they can’t be delineated. It’s as if it depended on what the definition of is was….
I am always astonished how people I used to think were intelligent simply cannot back any of their claims. My favorite is how Trump was attacking the Constitution. Hell, none on the left have ever even read it. the reality is that, frankly, trump more closely adhered to the Constitution than any President in my fifty four years, simply because he hadn’t spent a career learning how to compromise along its edges. Every time he ran into a completely wrong ruling (I’m talking to you, 9th Circuit) he could have ignored them and done what he wanted. Instead, he fought back, and unless my memory is failing, won almost every time.
Scott,
On your take with what Amazon did. What happens when internet providers do the same? What if the information highway starts picking who they will give service to and not?
I agree. When your ISP is the only game in town, it’s not a matter of the ISP choosing who they want to do business with. In Amazon’s case, Parler was already being hosted on AWS and they simply pulled the plug quite abruptly in a way meant to damage them. It wasn’t a matter of just “we don’t want to do business with them”. Parler should be successful, I hope, in suing for damages.
On the other side, building a Cloud platform is not an insignificant task. I agree that there need to be additional alternatives to the big tech, but it will take time and that needs to be taken into consideration. Amazon operates (in conjunction with the other big cloud providers) in a monopoly of sorts because of this startup difficulty.
Oh RICO*, RICO RICOOO, RICO….
Oh RICO, RICO RICOOO, RICO….
You can blow out a candle
But you can’t blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
(apologies to Peter Gabriel)
If only the DOJ had some spine
Unfortunately the DOJ is compromised as are many other federal agencies.
Digital Packet via Ham Radio. Not the fastest, but nearly unblockable and if it was done with blockchain unreadable and impossible to call back.
We’ve seen it over and over, leftists will continue to attack upstream until the conservative outfit that’s caught their attention is dead or has submitted. They’ll go after the app platform. If that doesn’t work they’ll go after hosting service, the payment processor, the credit card company/ bank. If you try to build your own server, they’ll go after the companies that build and sell the hardware. All w/ a media and social campaign to isolate the conservative from the sympathetic and friends. Parler was always described as a right-wing hate site
We’d have to build our own, isolated parallel civilization. That’s not really practical.
A few quick comments:
Haven’t (yet) actively sampled SIGNAL, but like the FOXHOLE. It has a clean interface and supports
Frank (Quite Frankly) has suggested we engage in a Pirate-Radio-like parallel distribution of information, flyers, stickers, etc. Perhaps BW could generate an appropriate “Zap” for members to discretely stick up around their “village.” It pays to advertise!
Oh yeah – I’ll share an old joke (modified):
What do you call Facebook’s market value loss of $60billionin 48 hours?
A GOOD START!
Cheers Jim
We’ve already started those efforts. PM me about our MB2A organization. (We’re using Signal for our communication.)
Good idea! Please tell me what PM means so I can check out your MB2A organization.
Private Message. Tap on my picture to get to my profile, then tap the blue “Message” button.
I think Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and the like would be surprised to know they are being hollowed out from within, not from the ‘Evil Conservatives’ they’re banning, but by the younger up-and-coming generations. Facebook has become the ‘old people’s’ platform to my grandchildren. They still might have an account for now, but its definitely become a joke to them. Same with Twitter and Instagram. Their parents use it. This may be whistling past the graveyard, but I suspect these current tech giants are at their zenith right now. They’re in an echo chamber where all they hear and see is confirmation bias. They have critics alarmed on the Left and the Right, and they are ignoring all of them. That’s not smart business practice. For our part, we’d become too dependent on them. Now it’s like those TV plots where the heroes have to go off-the-grid old school to defeat the highly sophisticated enemy. We’ll get it done, it’s just going to take a while.
They are the SPAM business. While the ad money keeps rolling in, who cares what is happening inside. And do you see any scaling back on that front?
It doesn’t happen overnight. My point is that Facebook is the darling of grandparents and parents and has been the subject of ridicule among the newer generations for awhile. Once that happens, it takes on the patina of a ‘legacy’ item, and the ads will start featuring heartburn medicine and hearing aids. It’s the natural progression of life. The big and flashy ad money always goes to where the eyeballs are. If my theory holds, that will shift to whatever new platform gets the popularity prize of the moment. The new platforms will likely be even more totalitarian because the current trend among the young is to embrace censorship for ‘safety’ reasons. But we’ll know where we stand and won’t buy in the way we did in our naĂŻve and trusting days of just a decade or so ago when all of this seemed like it was at last giving us free expression in a hostile environment.
5 minutes after my son arrives at enlightenment camp, drills begin in earnest…
Is that from a Renaissance faire? I used to act in those.
It looks like Rev War.
I’ve gone through my period of mourning the loss of our great American republic. I believe I have finally emerged from that tunnel.
I have feared two things: 1) that people would take to the streets and fight, and 2) that people wouldn’t fight. Road #1 would be a hot civil war; road #2 people would just roll over and take whatever is handed to them. What I am seeing is that a significant number of people are not taking road #2. I see people waking up to the threat and NOT lying down. I am encouraged for the first time in a long time because people on our side are fighting back.
Let the left be woke, because we are awake!
I am tired of the continuous stream of commentary from Bill and others on these predictable rants and outrageous behavior by leftists. Yes, we know who they are and how they act. These kinds of things are happening all the time. It is enough for us to be made aware of this bad behavior by the source that got the information. We don’t need any more commentary on it. Why waste our precious time on rehashing what is already obvious to us all? My time is worth more than that and I did not become a member to waste it listening to this kind of purposeless, idle, vacuous prattle that only serves to illustrate the scintillating brilliance of our commentators. I became a member to see Bill and others flex their considerable mental horsepower by outlining concrete actions, plans, recommendations and the like that will advance the conservative cause and that will counter the left’s attacks against us. I also became a member to hear insightful commentary on the events of the day that are not blatantly obvious to everyone already. I would like to hear commentary that will untangle issues and lead to insight that will help us ACT in an effective way against these awful adversaries. By not shifting to a proactive set of actions and how to accomplish them our cause is slowed down, becomes entangled in intellectual hyperventilation and loses effectiveness. Please!!! Action!!!!
A number of us have already begun the work of Moving Back to America (MB2A). PM me for more info.
Suggest viewing the Moving Back to America videos from Bill. He has ideas and action steps in those.
“Conservative” writer Andy Ngo? Ha!
Having just concerns doesn’t make us cry babies Scott.
So Scott, right leaning people can just create their own payment processors?
What about when Mastercard and Visa won’t do business with your newly created processor?
Do we just create a new right-leaning credit card? Do you want that in your wallet?
What will happen? I tell you: a mega-lightning will strike, the Earth will split to 3 halves and a Wyrm will emerge from the core….
What makes Visa and MS so special one can’t live life without? And feels urge to cover in fear just making up movie scenarios on them do something.
Those two has no monopoly on transactions. And most likely are not even in position to weigh in. The contracts are between client and a bank. Those just provide some kind of insurance, for a significant fee. Covering cases that by now are pretty rare, as most transactions are made on POS terminals with PIN protection and immediate balance check. Those could just leave V&MS out of the picture completely. And those in fear could even more work on splitting off finally.
Meanwhile we have no shortage of banks, and just because some of them who already have the dumbest and most corrupt badge for decades now grabbed the opportunity to run their fading name in the media — the rest will just keep at doing business with anyone with money. And being in competition possibly even looking out for grabbing clients. Do you think a market hole with the 80M people who are probably creating >75% of the USA GDP would be left unserviced?
Cash and checks are still legal tender. Go old school.
Checks have to clear the bank.
Maybe the same banks that won’t recognize the credit card?
If you will recall, back as far as 2008 when the democrats said they were looking for bipartisan compromise, what that really meant was the Republicans should cave to their whims. No “compromise” about it since they wouldn’t budge one inch. They have stopped trying to compromise and outright reject any input from conservatives. They are willing to use violence to achieve their goals, yet reject it from us and call it unlawful and treasonous. They feel violated because we entered their chambers, yet no one was harmed and very little damage was done. They were the ones who killed someone!
I do get tickled at how mad they are that some pleb DARE sit on their throne or walk into their sanctified temple of betrayal. HOW DARE THEY! Those unwashed rubes, stinking up their seats.
If only unity was a goal for the powers that be of the Democratic party. Their actions are more along the lines of revenge in order to stay in power. Taking innocent American people and making them criminals has been a long used tactic. Now they must teach why this is ok.
If your end game is to tear the United States apart, why would you perform any action that would bring people together? Unity is just a buzz word.
OK, Steven, I have another quote for you. It was from Michael Jordan, “Republicans buy shoes, too”. Twitter’s stock has lost value over the last several days amounting to more than 2.5 Billion! Jack should paid attention to MJ’s quote.
Like everything else the far left is 10 steps ahead of us on, it wouldn’t surprise me if Dack Jorsey sold off his stock B4 he did all his dumping. Same with Zark Mukieberg & Goulag CEO and all the “top brass” at said companies.
Or, maybe we got lucky and they are just as delusional as this (EX) PBS guy & they all thought they could do what they REALLY have wanted to do for so long and everyone would go along with it because, after all, they are Twitter, FB, YT, etc.
but then wouldn’t they be subject to “insider trading” prosecution?
But of course, prosecution by their woke friends an DA’s.
After the election debacle, I don’t believe there is “rule of law” anymore. The new “administration” will cover for their buddies.
Even Ben Shapiro is doing their work already…
You are absolutely correct with this observation. It’s very disturbing to me how quickly folks like Shapiro submit to the mainstream narrative. But he has consistently seemed to be been a bit of a Never Trumper in his dialogs and rants.
Steve, you’re suggesting that the Demcorats don’t want to tear the country apart. What we see as a bug is a feature to them
This is why god invented the 2nd amendment.
Madison created it. Acknowledging that the right protected therein predates government.
The Amendment doesn’t give a right. It lists a pre-existing one.
Exactly – that’s why God invented it. Madison merely acknowledged a pre-existing reality.
Our children are already going to re-education camps. They are called Public Schools.
Yes, and that was the point Bill was making at the beginning of his reply to Steve.
Knowing this, why continue to send them there? I had an experience years ago when my son was a first grader, the state believes it owns your children.It will threaten and punish you if you don’t give your children up to the public school system.
It depends on where you go and how you deal with them, as well as where you live. My kids went to a K-8 school, then to a regional high school. My son ran afoul of PC discipline (he didn’t deal with bullying by telling a teacher, he dealt with it by fighting back, only nobody apparently saw the initial bullying). When this became an issue, I tried to work with the principal. When that failed to produce results, the principal and I clashed. He explained that the school’s policy was backed by the state. I explained that when he made a final determination, I had the right of appeal. I explained that he had the upper hand until the second it left the educational bureaucracy and entered the administrative law world, where I would utterly destroy him.
He quit. So did the next one. My kids credit me with breaking two principals in the K-8 school.
My daughter told me that the my reputation was such that the high school was afraid of dealing with me. We had one problem with their misunderstanding of a law involving whether my daughter could take migraine medication at extra curricular activities if no nurse was around. I simply told them that their interpretation of the law was incorrect, that such a mistake was understandable, and how I would be glad to discuss the matter with their lawyer, to explain to him or her how they should have actually read the law. The never got back to me, but my daughter was allowed to self administer, so I thought nothing of it. It wasn’t until after she graduated that she told me they were utterly petrified of me.
Being feared is useful, when dealing with bureaucrats. Especially when you are right. So, make them fear you.
EXCELLENT!!
Yes indeed. FEAR is the only true motivator of bureaucrats!
We need them to live in abject TERROR of crossing us at every step up the ladder!
On a local level you achieved this. Good for you.
“When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
I was blessed that the church at which I am a member includes the Superintendent / A board member / HS principal and many teachers. We were always able to have very civil discussions. The board member aligns with me in many ways so common sense does play a role in my local schools.
Bravo Scott for pointing out the elephant.
Not enough people seem to be brave enough to start this food fight. We get the government we deserve.
What have you done? What are you doing? Or are you content?
Several members here have started the work of MB2A. PM me for more info.
What does PM stand for?
Private Message. I mentioned it in an earlier reply to you, unless I typed it all up and forgot to press Post.
Tap my picture to get to my profile,then tap the “Message” button.
Now I’m lost again. What does MB2A mean?
Move Back 2 America. A daily show by Bill, and a nascent movement to mobilize to deal with the sheep and their exploiters who currently have the upper hand, by hook and by crook… (see, sheep reference… heh heh)
What Tim said. 🙂
Got it Michael. Thanks! Forward to FREEDOM! Last night I tried to sign in to the show, but I’m not signed up for (can’t remember) and couldn’t log in.
You should have been able to get in via the link I posted. Weird. Anyway, we’ll be having more. I’ll announce them here.
When I remember what prevented me from getting in, I’ll let you know.
My irritation with the whole deal is these companies built their “platforms” on an Internet that was/is subsidized by taxpayer money. Legislative Sec. 230.
They also got federal $$ and info. brokerage $$, and prop up by 3-letter agencies.
They remind me of Faux news . . . pretend they’re free and open (honest) until they have market share (or monopoly) then engage the real plan.
“Re-educate your kids” – I see what you did there
No surprise that democrats are wallowing in their hollow victory – cheating, stealing, lying and killing are just minor glitches in their system of belief, completely forgivable when creating their version of utopia.
Not to be negative, I can’t imagine a scenario whereby the Democrats “show some wisdom” and do anything that will create “unity”. In fact, their definition of unity – as far as I can tell – is “getting everyone over to our way of thinking”. It’s like their expressed desire to have a “national conversation about race”… a reasonable request, but we all know what that would entail in the minds of the left.
The democrats don’t HAVE wisdom to show.
Unfortunately the non-democrats have similar shortage, that’s how we got here. As was mentioned in the clip, instead of moaning anyone could have put together the work and millions to assemble the alternative platforms, media, entertainment, etc. It should not be one in decade event like FoxNews at its roots. Could have been repeated any time in the past. And in the future. Sure, moaning is more convenient. Especially combined with sitting in the armchair and browsing FB and T and watching the cable in significant part of the day.
Every day I see instances where some business caves to the mob, so the dem wisdom works fine actually, and really why would they change anything when “alienating” means nothing practical and results in more people licking their ass. While we keep to the wishful thinking it is not the case.
Outside of this preaching to the choir sessions that is.
It’s a ver awful thing to say, but we should actively wish that the dems overdo all their stuff and kick the people out of their comfort zones finally and create their real opposition.
I agree with your point that the Right could have organized and developed their own platforms, media, etc. over the years. It seems our Achilles Heel is always to hope that we don’t need to go all out, that at some point the ‘moderates’ on the other side will temper the runaway mob into behaving with decency and respect. That will never happen in the normal course of events. Sadly, we’ve often settled for our own brand of Virtue Signaling, complaining and getting angry over the actions of people who have never shown themselves to be particularly interested in what we think or want. I’m guilty of that myself.
Right now, with everyone on the Right hurting so much, there’s understandable resentment for messages like yours or Scott’s. I believe there’s a need to drop the victimization mantle we’re wrapping ourselves in, however justifiable it is to feel like a victim right now. For my own part, I’m choosing to find hopeful signs wherever I see or hear or read them. I’m reading my Bible more and choosing the things I watch on TV with more of a view to find good values in the stories. Choosing to be at peace in my soul, vigilant in my mind to reject all that is untrue, and so grateful for websites like this one and people like the BW Team and its members.
My aim is to not just survive this period but to learn and grow. It’s not easy, and nothing that I see makes me believe things will improve much any time soon. Those two observations are beside the point, it has to be done. The history of this nation and this world shows that dark times come. They need to be met with courage, wisdom and humor. I take the Left’s perfidy for granted and don’t feel like I need to complain about it anymore to my longsuffering husband! We can’t be a group of angry people for long. Depression always follows anger, and apathy behind that. And then we march ourselves into the camps.
A number of us are going beyond what you said you’re doing and have begun the work of MB2A. PM me for more info.
It seems like you have to keep repeating yourself. I’ll say it again for you. IT’S HAPPENING, FOLKS!
I am very happy, and appreciative of your efforts; plus BW, on this week’s Backstage show, talked about someone who built the internet is rebuilding a new one. And the founder/developer of Gab has also been working on something for the past few years.
Thanks. 🙂 Yes, there are some promising things being built. I try to keep an eye on them.
Blood in the streets, well, their blood, might do it. The problem is the calculus. I suspect it will take a mortality rate of 60 to 75% ….