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| Boomers, Meet the Based |
| 2022-02-03 |
| [AMERICANMIND] There’s a generation gap on the Right, and it’s hurting us. "Divide and conquer" is the guiding strategy of the woke oligarchy. The regime is trying to marginalize Red America as illegitimate, to separate us from "the mainstream," and thus declare us undeserving of the rights and privileges of citizenship. But beyond that, the woke regime is also exploiting a generation gap on the right (which is partly but not wholly a factor of age), through double-speak and mixed messages. Contrary to some prejudices among the younger Right, not every self-identified conservative over 50 is deluded and useless. Likewise, older conservatives need to know that not every young, right-wing provocateur on Twitter is a racist anarchist. But a lot of people on either side see each other that way, largely because the regime’s vast propaganda machine is able to re-enforce both of these prejudices. It’s hard to know whether this multi-pronged media campaign by the Left is a carefully planned psy-ops strategy, or just the net effect of simultaneously asserting contradictory arguments depending on whatever seems expedient. Either way, a generation gap on the right is being exacerbated, in part because each side is reacting to the Blue regime’s propaganda. The older generation grew up in an America where, on the surface, institutions were trustworthy, or at the very least, not actively at war with the people. That facade crumbled for those who grew up after 9/11. Decades of pointless war in the Middle East, the financial crisis in which not a single banker on Wall Street went to jail, and the ever-skyrocketing cost of living, soured the generation that grew up under George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The promise of racial reconciliation never materialized and the constant screams of crisis (climate change! COVID!) have further radicalized a growing youth faction on the right. REINFORCING NARRATIVES Young people get almost all their news online, which gives them a broad array of information sources and makes them far less likely to accept any "official" narratives. At times, they may almost be too skeptical, embracing odd and outlandish theories simply because they are outside the mainstream. Insisting that the sky is pink just because Ibram X. Kendi says it is blue is not a sign of independent thinking. Americans over 50 tend to be less active on social media, less frequent consumers of alternative news sites, and more dependent on the legacy media of newspapers and television networks. Of course, many older conservatives know that the establishment media is heavily skewed to the left, yet the publications they turn to correct this imbalance are, let us say, rather tame and conventional. As far as the younger dissident right is concerned, most old-line "conservative" publications are part of the same corrupt media establishment. The more staid and authoritative style of the New York Times and the network news (which the Times heavily influences) tends to reinforce the Boomers’ inclination to believe that our institutions are still functioning normally and the system is working. Our political gerontocracy contributes to this problem: nothing makes a Boomer feel young like seeing Congress run by people in their 80s. News stories that create enormous controversy online often get much less attention in the legacy media. Thus, conservatives among the older generation may have little familiarity with the details of events and scandals that lead millennials to be alarmed and cynical. The treatment of those arrested in connection with January 6 is a good example. Right-wingers under 40 tend to know much more about the mistreatment of these prisoners, and thus tend to be more sympathetic, compared to conservatives over 50, who were alarmed and repelled by the events of January 6, and thus are usually much less concerned with or attentive to those who have been arrested. When a clear case of left-wing excess does leak into the mainstream news—about Critical Race Theory being taught in schools, for example—the legacy media will quickly offer an authoritative source to deny or downplay the revelations. This tactic works, up to a point, for those with more limited access to alternative news sources, but it only hardens the disgust and skepticism of those who are mostly online, who quickly learn about the dishonesty and hypocrisy of such denials. Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:746 |
| #12 Gavin Newsome getting a maskless picture taken with a maskless Magic Johnson while preparing LA and lockdown emergency California for the Super Bowl: "I can't breathe." LA Mayor Garcetti in same photo op: |
| Posted by: Ulelet Snusotch7182 2022-02-03 19:29 |
| #11 Getting crowded down there Abu |
| Posted by: KBK 2022-02-03 19:12 |
| #10 There is literally not one American institution's leadership that deserves our respect today. Gavin Newsome getting a maskless picture taken with a maskless Magic Johnson while preparing LA and lockdown emergency California for the Super Bowl: "I can't breathe." |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-02-03 18:51 |
| #9 Boomers have “made it” and will likely not live long enough to suffer the consequences of a financial or political collapse My RETIREMENT plan! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-02-03 17:33 |
| #8 Agree with Tom at #3. LBJ introduced us to the credibility gap, sent our boys into a war with no clear plan for victory, gave us Affirmative Action, Medicare, raised taxes and stole money from Social Security which was never anything but a Ponzi scheme anyway. His Great Society and Vietnam War were the classic definition of guns and butter that bankrupted and poisoned our whole country. Remember HUD? HEW? I don't think we've ever really recovered from LBJ's time in office. That's certainly when I realized the government cannot be trusted. Naively, I still believed in the media. It took me a long, long time to fully appreciate how biased they are. But I think that up until the 1990's there were still some newspapers, at least in southern California, that tended conservative. They're all gone now. Now the TV and newspapers are nothing but Democrat Party propaganda, a vile pack of lies. Now we have the cancel culture with people like Neil Young trying to tell us what is misinformation and what isn't. Neil Young can kiss my ass and then Joni Mitchell can too. Get Roger Waters in the line too. I'd rather listen to Pat Boone. But it's kinda sad, really, that we can no longer just kick back and listen to music or watch TV and be entertained by it instead of getting pissed off at all the lies, the stench of all the corruption. I think it was when all of our major corporations, which include the major media outlets, got into bed with the Chinese Communist Party. The corruption stinks to high heaven. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2022-02-03 13:10 |
#7 I have tried to educate my adult children, but they already know everything. Should they ever be so blessed as to grow up, they will be surprised to find out how much the old man has changed! |
| Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2022-02-03 12:48 |
| #6 they suspect that many older conservatives, with their comparative financial security, are too insulated from the current crisis. Boomers have “made it” and will likely not live long enough to suffer the consequences of a financial or political collapse; they have seized the lifeboats and left the young to fend for themselves. Unfortunately true, although I have tried to educate my adult children, but they already know everything. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-02-03 12:43 |
| #5 free based? |
| Posted by: Greng Black3494 2022-02-03 12:13 |
| #4 Brandon is LBJ x10 |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-03 11:39 |
| #3 Actually, LBJ destroyed us baby boomers' belief in government and institutions pretty well. |
| Posted by: Tom 2022-02-03 11:17 |
| #2 COVID has peaked at Worldometers (Thanks, G(r)om!) New "Serious/Critical" cases have dropped every day for almost two weeks, and yesterday's "Active Cases" dropped for the first time in two months. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2022-02-03 11:14 |
| #1 The divide is between those who think our major institutions are run by competent, credible authorities and those who view them as decadent, not worthy of deference and run by mendacious and corrupt fools. The former group is overwhelmingly based in or near the D.C. Swamp and incapable of seeing that the system which benefits them so handsomely is literally destroying millions of normal Americans who lack their access or credentials. Does anyone still believe that the CDC and NIH and FDA really have our best interests at heart, or that they practice disinterested science to advance public health? When AstraZeneca's COVID vax in the U.K. and Europe was found to cause a spike in clotting that caused death in a few cases, it was halted by those nations' public health authorities. Pfizer's own data show their vaccine killed over a thousand people and caused many times that number of serious adverse effects in its first three months. Was the Pfizer vax pulled here, as AZN's vax was in the U.K.? No. Instead we've heard nonstop bullshit about how safe it is, how anyone who expresses doubt or demands to see and scrutinize and discuss the data is a "denier" or a "conspiracy theorist" or "killing grandma" etc. And yet the skeptics have been proved right again and again-- on the stupidity of the lockdowns, on the criminal suppression of effective treatments such as HCQ and ivermectin, on 'with' vs 'from' and the vast overcounting of COVID deaths and undercounting or denial of the vast number of deaths caused by the elite's botched public policies. Ditto for the Ukraine farce, the endless overseas interventions to support gender studies at Kabul U., for all the BS about "systemic racism" and St George Fentanyl, for the notion that our elections are fair and honest, for the demonization of Russia or Hungary's Orban, for the UniParty's embrace of illegal immigration etc etc. There is literally not one American institution's leadership that deserves our respect today. |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2022-02-03 07:50 |