Article by Kurt Schlichter in Townhall
Conservatives’ Crushing
Counterattack In the Culture War
You know, I am still not tired of all the winning. Imagine having a
Republican president conserva-woke enough to issue an executive order
banning the poisonous lies of critical race theory from being inflicted
upon our federal workforce. Well, we do have a president
fearless enough to fight back, boldly and publicly, against the noxious
propaganda of the academic left we taxpayers have been shelling out
millions to pay commie consultants for. And he did it in the face of the
utterly predictable narrative that “Trump is racist for prohibiting
indoctrinating government employees with the idea that people are good
or bad based on their race!”
Do
you think a Jeb!, or a Mitt! or even a Nikki! would dare stand up to
that kind of heat? No, they’d be kneeling, begging for absolution from
the NYT and WaPo for the sins of the GOP base not wanting to pay moral
and/or financial reparations for slaves they never owned to people who
were never owned.
Thanks to Donald Trump, the culture war is back
on and instead of General McClellan we have General Patton, and he’s up
to RINO-slap a squish.
The culture war is that thing the “fiscally conservative, socially liberal” smart set of spineless Fredocons,
who are all in on the “socially liberal” part but never get around to
the “fiscally conservative” part, have told us for decades is a sure
loser. Now, normally one should defer to the Fredocons on losing since
they are the indisputable experts, but the fact that for decades the GOP
establishment refused to fight about things that our base was concerned
with led to a society where people tell you their pronouns and insist
dudes can get preggers. Fiscal and foreign policy stuff is important,
but when some dude dangles his doings in your daughter’s locker room
because now he insists that he is no longer Charlie but is, instead,
Charlotte, that’s a problem. And the geniuses kept telling us “Hush,
knuckledraggers, we’re too busy trying to ship your job to China because
Milton Freidman told us to and we don’t have time to icky fights over
the things you care about that might get us called hayseeds at the next
Georgetown mixer.”
All this garbage the left has pushed on us – from racial
self-loathing to gender idiocy to killing babies – has catastrophic
real-world consequences on real people and the people who presumed to
lead us didn’t want to risk the kool kidz of kultur wagging their
collective fingers at them. Trump not only cares but counterattacks.
That’s
why the executive order getting the government out of the racial
grievance business is so important. Finally, we are able to exercise our
brand of power – political power, since we control the executive branch
– to push back against the unaccountable and totally left cultural
power of the establishment. And it’s not only the president.
We’re
all supposed to applaud the kneeling zillionaires of the NFL – the most
spoiled bunch of jerks on planet earth – and yet when they came out and
tried to rub their cultural power in our faces, when they tried to make
us just sit there and silently be insulted presented by the felons,
losers, and accused sex offenders whose names were emblazoned on their helmets,
tons of us refused to tune in and those who showed up live booed these
pretentious twits. How dare those peasants refuse to submit to the
cultural commandments of their betters!
And then there was the reaction to the despicable Netflix Cuties
film, a child molester’s fantasia that disgusted the nation. Look, far
be it from me to stop the blue bubble-dwelling cultural elite from
selecting “You dumb Jesus people don’t appreciate why pedophilia is no
big deal” as their hill to die on. As long as they die on some hill I’m
not too picky about which one, but if they want to choose the one that’s
even going to creep out a lot of the Democrat Party’s voters, go for
it.
The simple and indisputable fact is that within the liberal
bubble there is not only huge pressure, but an ideological need, to
defend any perversion that comes along. The logic of the liberal
ideology makes it impossible to say “No” – if you can’t tell a dude who
is manifestly a dude that “Sorry, but you are a dude,” you are probably
going to have a hard time coming up with a consistent reason why it’s
bad for an adult to have sex with a 14-year-old. And, at least in
California, the Democrat governor just signed a bill to substantially
cut the penalties for a 24-year-old to have sex – of any kind – with
someone 10 years younger. Sick.
Oh, it occurs to them that normal people are disgusted and
appalled, but this does not cause them to rethink their disgraceful
actions but to insist we are somehow mischaracterizing what they are
doing. We say they are trying to penalize pedos less, and they are. And
based on their grotesque rationalizations, if you follow their twisted
logic there is nothing that creates a boundary between the lessened
penalties they want today and the total abandonment of the idea of the
age of consent. The leftist perverts get their perversion and the rest
of the leftists get to further undermine the family and society – to
people who hate you, it’s a win-win.
But we’re now fighting back.
People are furious with Netflix, and it seems as if the Obama-affiliated
VOD service was actually stunned that people objected. After all,
cultural decency rarely penetrates into the deep blue bubble, and the
idea that telling someone “Hey, your perversion is not okay” is totally
alien to their caste. The cultural critics adored Cuties and were
scandalized that anyone might be offended by the horrific sexualization
of pre-teen girls. Alyssa Rosenberg of the WaPo fumed: “If
conservatives, who have jumped on the debate over #Cuties, want to be
taken seriously as cultural arbiters, they have to be able to talk about
the *text* of a movie like this in an honest, responsible way.”
Well, if the price of the total rejection of pedo exploitation of kids
is having people in blue metro enclaves not take us seriously, we’re
ready to pay it.
Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton have gotten involved and attacked
Netflix and, by extension, the leftist luminaries involved. Note that
Obama, who is deeply connected with Netflix, has said zero. And, of
course, there’s no outrage from the creepy, hair-sniffing weirdo who
lives in a basement. But it would be no surprise to see the president
tweet about it: “Many are disgusted by failing Netflix (Obama has a
big-money deal with it) exploiting kids. We will investigate and
prosecute perverts. Sick! LAW AND ORDER!”
The culture war is not some niche distraction for Bible thumpers and repressed weirdos channeling Chris Cooper in American Beauty.
It is not an inconvenience to our GOP establishment and a frivolous
distraction from the serious business of managing America’s decline to
keep it at a slightly slower rate than under the Democrats. It is the
battle over the things that we normal Americans live with every day. The
nature of our country and society is vitally important, and we demand a
say in it.
Under Trump, we have that say again, finally, and in
his second term look for Donald Trump’s administration to stay on the
cultural offensive.
