Bond in Bankruptcy ... Mark Steyn

Steyn Online ^ | 12 Dec 2012 | Mark steyn

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

And in the long run they might have done rather better had they used the dough to start a movie studio or buy a TV network.

Maybe that's not such a bad idea.

It is a desperately bad idea if you think that you can make a conservative news network which competes. Fox News seems “conservative” because it has Hannity and it does not go flat-out socialist like the other networks - but FNC actually is simply centrist.

An actual conservative network wouldn’t give “Ted Baxter” the time of day. O’Reily is a populist, not a conservative.

An actual conservative network wouldn’t give a fig for political correctness.

An actual conservative network would have fictional entertainment which would be perfectly predictable - the reporter did it! Because in “real” fiction the reporter, if there is one, is the hero - and a rich white man is the villain.

You see, standard network fare - whether fictional or (supposedly objective) news, is entertainment - and in entertainment, there has to be a surprise. The “surprise” is always that the person who in real life circumstances is most likely to be trustworthy is the perpetrator.

In that kind of topsy-turvy world, things are so fouled up that even socialism could seem preferable. Because socialism, we are assured with a straight face, is always run by the good guys (who are either journalists or who could get jobs as journalists any time they want. You know, people like Benito Mussolini or George Stephanopholus. </sarcasm>

[Gritty]

Depressing, but probably utterly true.

We have "lost" the culture by default to the Liberals. Many of us assumed doing the right, moral, decent, and Constitutionally correct things would inevitably trump those doing the evil, selfish, self-serving things in their determined quest for power and control and in the end the genuine American Vision would ultimately prevail.

It does not appear it has done so. The Liberal enemy promoting unAmerican values has labored tirelessly and effectively prevailed over the decades in nearly every area where character is molded and opinion formed until we suddenly don't even recognize our own national landscape!

We are like strangers in a strange land. That is what it felt like after the last election.

This is not your Daddy's America. It is not even our America as we grew up and matured in it - working hard and paying our own way, serving in our armed forces, paying our taxes, being honest and charitable, going to church, being tolerant to others, and raising our families the best we could and assuming others were just doing the same.

Just Americans, all - maybe with a few different views, but with the same goals in mind.

Ha! Ha! The joke is on us!!

We have been subverted, blindsided, and sucker punched but a lot of it is our own fault. We ignored all the signs for years. Now, only a massive national revival of the spirit can save us.

Turning the culture around before the bonds of irreversible tyranny tighten and strangle us is unlikely despite some hopeful signs at the state level. The massive power of an obscenely unConstitutional Federal Government is descending rapidly on the America we knew and loved and it seems huge numbers accept the ugly changes. Little do most of them realize where it will lead and what sorrow and anguish it will bring to most of us.

We have forgotten our beginnings - both spiritual and cultural - so I suspect we will richly reap that which we have sown for the past century. The whirlwind is rapidly approaching.

[firebrand]

If I did not believe the election was outright stolen, I would say this is the best statement of why we lost.

Steyn has the same view of the electorate that I do: that they are basically political morons. That is why they must be contradicted on an appropriate level.

Everybody step back a few steps and look at the big picture, and then dumb the message down and propagate it. Tell it to everyone you come in contact with. If you say it in terms that are simple enough, with enough conviction, it will register, because people are not morons in general, they are mostly just political morons.

We can try. Doing it from the ground up. The schools and colleges and the media will be counterpunching all the way, but I think it is all we have left.

Other than that, there is separatism. Not secession but a kind of cultural isolation of ourselves—a gated community of culture and ideology. I can’t think of any other alternatives, except maybe accept that the Lord has some rough times in mind for us.