The leftist culture is a problem

 George Neumayer:

The GOP’s lackluster performance on Tuesday speaks not only to the party’s fecklessness but also to the liberalism of the American people. Even if the GOP had run uniformly strong candidates, they would still have struggled to persuade Americans in thrall to left-wing propaganda. The truth is that whoever owns the culture in the end owns politics. The complacent assumption of many pundits is that politics revolves around the “economy, stupid.” But what truly animates politics is the culture that shapes voters. Whoever controls that culture usually wins.

The Left has dominated American culture for decades and thus enjoys a perpetual advantage in our politics. Democrats appeal to raw emotion; Republicans appeal to common sense. Democrats encourage voters to take the low road, whereas principled Republicans urge them to take the higher one. Needless to say, the latter pitch is a much harder sell in a corrupted democracy. It is easier to win in American politics as an advocate of self-indulgent wokeness than as a proponent of the natural moral law.

Of course, most pundits never blame the irrationality of the people for an election outcome. They seek, instead, to flatter the people and attribute their rejection of a particular party to a good cause. Hence, pundits, even conservatives, chalked up the people’s indifference to the GOP as a distaste for Trumpian “chaos” and so forth. But that flattering explanation makes little sense, given that the people reelected a swath of incumbents responsible for our chaotic and unstable country. Let’s get real: The American people are electing the pols they deserve, demagogues who mirror the woke prejudices of an increasingly propagandized people.

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While it is clear to me that those who voted for Democrats made a mistake, it is also clear that the US media is complicit in that mistake by failing to report just how awful Biden and the Democrats are.  We need a way to get around those in the media who support the Dems nonsense.

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