Victimhood is a social issue and not a political one. In our era, it starts when the boomers began maturing in the Vietnam-war years. Then in the last decade or so, there has been a pandemic of the millenials during which any group or individual who feels they have a grievance about the unfair treatment they are receiving from some "they," feelings get hurt. This self-pity crosses all the political spectrum.
I agree with this. However there is a missing piece. Democrats are generally not moving the Overton Window to advance progressive cause. They only trumpet progressive cause as leverage and deflection for their only real goal... to achieve absolute power and control. They are perpetually the underdog... insecure around Republicans.
Because Republicans are secure in their morality and purpose, they are not obsessed with filling a gap of self-worth by attempting to dominate and punch down their ideological competition. Instead, Republicans have more often used their time to focus on self, family, friends and God.
The mistake was not playing enough defense against the power obsessed Democrats. And the primary source of failure was allowing the Democrats to take over the education system. Generations have been brainwashed and indoctrinated. Republicans really knew this was happening because their kids came home from school spouting absurd radical beliefs. But they ignored it. And now the young electorate is corrupted with a parasitic toxic mind virus.
The incremental change back to traditional conservative values requires taking back the education system. They know it and are committed to preventing it. Any Republican politician joining them against school choice, home schooling independence and traditional value reforms, must get the boot.
Not sure what data you have. But it’s wrong. The progressive churches are too busy performing gay marriages and sending pamphlets about how Jesus was gay to worry about soup kitchens and the like.
You’re pulling that because most soup kitchens and missionary systems are in the inner city because the dem leadership won’t do anything about the homeless problem so the churches have to. But those churches despite being liberal on the surface are actually the more compassionate conservatives.
Case in point. The super liberal church up in Alpharetta where Obama and Michelle have spoken before broke away because they didn’t want to be a gay affirming church.
So it also depends on what you mean by progressive.
I dispute the accuracy of that data because progressive and Christian don’t mix. If it’s a progressive church it’s not a Christian church despite what they preach or believe. They are worshiping a different god than the god of Abraham and father of Jesus.
Who cares if they have soup kitchens and community outreach. So does the church of Scientology.
Your point is that conservatives preach. Progressives act. Wrong.
Conservatives try to act and are often jailed fired or sometimes killed.
Or, those same conservatives have families and a job to attend to and do t have time to protest or stand in front of a synagogue and block the doors.
Not sure what your point is but if your worried about that conservatives or the right gets complacent it’s because it’s getting harder and harder to change anything.
You make a great point. On the other hand, some issues seem to have shifted so rapidly leftward, like “gender affirming care” that a patient, collaborative approach may likely destroy many more lives before it is changed to something more rational. At the rate we are piling up debt, taking a collaborative approach make take us to a point of no return. What then?
The shift to the left has been aided and abetted by the establishment republicans who are regularly cheered on by those suffering from TDS and those who long for a return to more polite politics. I would suggest that the conservatives are pretty much a victim of that mentality.
I understand your point and do agree, kinda. However it would also be effective if those who abused their positions in public office were held accountable for their actions or inactions in some cases, like Hillary leaving those soldiers to die and not sending them help when they were defending our embassy. Also Speaker of the House Nancy P. getting rich from insider trading while she was in office. I understand that nobody is perfect, but these kinds of abuses should not be swept under the rug and forgotten about.
That leftwards shift of the "overton Window" began decades before Obamacare was floated. Like, back in the early 1960s, when social mores and norms collapsed and public school curriculae morphed from education to indoctrination. Those of us who are "threescore and ten years, maybe fourscore if we are strong" have lived through every blessed day of it.
Federal Judge Royce Lamberth knocked the wind out of Hillary care.
About the time Hillary care was fined $300k, so was Newts Gingrich getting hammered with a $300K fine. Guess who the media focused and concentrated on?? Yep, you know it. John Roberts CSCJ took matters into his hand and wrote law. Does he have the power and authority to rewrite the Law? Oh he changed the word "penalty" to a "Tax" and wala they get what they want.
According to him and some others he does have omnipitont powers. I would believe that is egregiously wrong. But hey! Just rule as they want things to be socially and the Constitution be hanged.
Victimhood is a social issue and not a political one. In our era, it starts when the boomers began maturing in the Vietnam-war years. Then in the last decade or so, there has been a pandemic of the millenials during which any group or individual who feels they have a grievance about the unfair treatment they are receiving from some "they," feelings get hurt. This self-pity crosses all the political spectrum.
I agree with this. However there is a missing piece. Democrats are generally not moving the Overton Window to advance progressive cause. They only trumpet progressive cause as leverage and deflection for their only real goal... to achieve absolute power and control. They are perpetually the underdog... insecure around Republicans.
Because Republicans are secure in their morality and purpose, they are not obsessed with filling a gap of self-worth by attempting to dominate and punch down their ideological competition. Instead, Republicans have more often used their time to focus on self, family, friends and God.
The mistake was not playing enough defense against the power obsessed Democrats. And the primary source of failure was allowing the Democrats to take over the education system. Generations have been brainwashed and indoctrinated. Republicans really knew this was happening because their kids came home from school spouting absurd radical beliefs. But they ignored it. And now the young electorate is corrupted with a parasitic toxic mind virus.
The incremental change back to traditional conservative values requires taking back the education system. They know it and are committed to preventing it. Any Republican politician joining them against school choice, home schooling independence and traditional value reforms, must get the boot.
Not sure what data you have. But it’s wrong. The progressive churches are too busy performing gay marriages and sending pamphlets about how Jesus was gay to worry about soup kitchens and the like.
You’re pulling that because most soup kitchens and missionary systems are in the inner city because the dem leadership won’t do anything about the homeless problem so the churches have to. But those churches despite being liberal on the surface are actually the more compassionate conservatives.
Case in point. The super liberal church up in Alpharetta where Obama and Michelle have spoken before broke away because they didn’t want to be a gay affirming church.
So it also depends on what you mean by progressive.
I dispute the accuracy of that data because progressive and Christian don’t mix. If it’s a progressive church it’s not a Christian church despite what they preach or believe. They are worshiping a different god than the god of Abraham and father of Jesus.
Who cares if they have soup kitchens and community outreach. So does the church of Scientology.
Your point is that conservatives preach. Progressives act. Wrong.
Conservatives try to act and are often jailed fired or sometimes killed.
Or, those same conservatives have families and a job to attend to and do t have time to protest or stand in front of a synagogue and block the doors.
Not sure what your point is but if your worried about that conservatives or the right gets complacent it’s because it’s getting harder and harder to change anything.
You make a great point. On the other hand, some issues seem to have shifted so rapidly leftward, like “gender affirming care” that a patient, collaborative approach may likely destroy many more lives before it is changed to something more rational. At the rate we are piling up debt, taking a collaborative approach make take us to a point of no return. What then?
The shift to the left has been aided and abetted by the establishment republicans who are regularly cheered on by those suffering from TDS and those who long for a return to more polite politics. I would suggest that the conservatives are pretty much a victim of that mentality.
I understand your point and do agree, kinda. However it would also be effective if those who abused their positions in public office were held accountable for their actions or inactions in some cases, like Hillary leaving those soldiers to die and not sending them help when they were defending our embassy. Also Speaker of the House Nancy P. getting rich from insider trading while she was in office. I understand that nobody is perfect, but these kinds of abuses should not be swept under the rug and forgotten about.
That leftwards shift of the "overton Window" began decades before Obamacare was floated. Like, back in the early 1960s, when social mores and norms collapsed and public school curriculae morphed from education to indoctrination. Those of us who are "threescore and ten years, maybe fourscore if we are strong" have lived through every blessed day of it.
Federal Judge Royce Lamberth knocked the wind out of Hillary care.
About the time Hillary care was fined $300k, so was Newts Gingrich getting hammered with a $300K fine. Guess who the media focused and concentrated on?? Yep, you know it. John Roberts CSCJ took matters into his hand and wrote law. Does he have the power and authority to rewrite the Law? Oh he changed the word "penalty" to a "Tax" and wala they get what they want.
According to him and some others he does have omnipitont powers. I would believe that is egregiously wrong. But hey! Just rule as they want things to be socially and the Constitution be hanged.