[Millee]

I think the younger and middle-aged generations of Americans are very patriotic

I agree. I think 9/11 opened the eyes of a lot of youngsters ("youngsters"....how old do I sound????) I'm sure their teachers/professors had many "who are you going to believe? Us or your lying eyes" moments.

[Tax-chick]

Plenty of young people are listening to patriotic popular music ... country music and contemporary Christian music. If he's never heard of them (while he exposes his child to the performances of "singing" strippers and aging British pedophiles), it's his loss.

Hey, East Coast dude ... TOBY KEITH!

[4KennewickMan2Invent]

Pop culture is mostly comprised of non-thinking emotional nitwits that have no real solutions or values. That makes it the opposite of free thinking. Rather than take the lower road of pop-culture, increase the knowledge.

The low road is pop culture TV (MTV, NBC, ABC, BET, etc.) and useless. The high road deals with education. Not college or high school, but with paid apprenticeships. Set up a business that puts people through a job that will allow them to earn more money and experience.

Example: 10 companies decide to have their more redundant jobs pooled/contracted to a "school". The adult students would work the job part time and study the rest of the time. With the business involved, they can get better employees, dictate what education is needed and spend less time and money on the interview process and retraining.

The difference between the two roads is one wants money and gets you mad and wanting government solutions. The other affects your brain, earns you more money and uses individualistic solutions.

Young people like money, so show them that thinking makes more money. Some won't like it at first, but after a while, they learn how to make it and who wants to take it.

Liberalism is successful at manipulation of emotions and government based solutions (pop-culture, colleges, government schools, visual media). They have and will always fail at thinking and individual solutions (businesses, creativity, fact based education, any cure or invention in history).

[highball]

The problem is that art made specifically for advancing an agenda (conservative or liberal) stinks. So I'd agree that "Conservatives Need to Make Inroads into Pop Culture," but only in the most general sense. Conservative artists will create their work imbued with conservative principles, which is the only way to make "conservative art" that doesn't blow.

This also overlooks that it is corporations who control the production of art. It's all about money. Why aren't there more patriotic songs? Because patriotic songs don't sell as well. Plain and simple - it's Adam Smith at work.

[4KennewickMan2Invent]

On Saturday, July 2, my wife, my youngest daughter and I were among the approximately one million people on Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway listening to Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, Destiny’s Child, Will Smith, Stevie Wonder, Alicia Keys, and others perform for the Live 8 concert. On Monday July 4, I returned to that same location – along with about a half a million people - to listen to a concert by Elton John, Bryan Adams, and the Philly Pops culminating with a fantastic fireworks display.

Concerts that were free so that pressure could be put on the U.S. government to send more taxpayer money into the corrupt continent of Africa so that murderous dictators can maintain their death grip. Glad he enjoyed it. Nice display of principles.