Posted on 11/25/2015 5:49:31 PM PST by 6ft2inhighheelshoes
Conservatives like to talk big about taking back the culture, but generally they suck at selling freedom. Having ruled pop culture for years, liberals tell their story by infusing everything from movies to visual art and music with their propaganda. Then, this happened:
Created in 2012 by the Republican street artist, Sabo, the “Ted Cruz with Tattoos†poster became culturally iconic for its frank and sexy message, and the fact that the liberal media tripped all over itself to promote it before they figured out that conservatives actually loved the image.
Shortly after, a secret confederacy of right-of-center marketing professionals in Los Angeles began producing their own political art. At first, the posters and paint jobs were confined to LA, but independent activists in other states began to use the posters locally, and one of the latest designs features Ted Cruz’s name with the Mockingjay style symbol made famous by the Hunger Games series.
The posters have made headlines from LA to Boulder, and most recently, Michigan State University students plastered 60 all over campus on the same day Mockingjay opened in theaters, inviting a direct comparison between the fictional Panem capitol and Washington D.C.:
So what’s going on here? An unabashed admirer of Cruz, Sabo creates many works to celebrate his favorite candidate, regardless of whether they will sell or not, and the “Mockingjay movement†operates outside of the structure of the Cruz political campaign. In other words, Cruz seems to be leading by example and inspiring something new to conservatism; rebellious fans and campaign volunteers are stepping outside the traditional norms, self-funding creative communications, telling their story and (with Cruz surging in Iowa) selling freedom very well indeed.
His appeal with the young is wildly “misunderestimated”.
I think this is great, although I’m most definitely not a cruz fanboi.
Where are Cruz’s 10K+ strong rallies? They do not exist.
Cruz Ping
Getting young people excited about his candidacy by developing a tie-in to MockingJay is a brilliant.
We’ve got elderly folks in my little town wearing the Mockingjay Cruz buttons that their grandkids have made for them.
No, but the turtle won the race with the hare. Time will tell, I’ll take either one...
The “arrow” might cause a shutdown of Massachusetts’s university system though... (being that it’s a micro aggressive trigger).
We’re witnessing the origins of the Eloi generation.
Thanks for the link....never knew....
That’s excellent.
You are welcome. I like to support artists.
And if anybody asks, I didn’t do it.
Perhaps (but we also have to consider our "sources" and theirs).
Most of all consider the first sentence, that we have to SELL the young "freedom"!
Remember the movie; Wild In The Streets
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