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'Walking Dead' Drops Liberal Platitudes, Goes Conservative
Big-Hollywood ^ | 22 Oct 2012, 11:16 AM PDT | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 10/22/2012 3:00:11 PM PDT by djone

"We are only two episodes into the new season, and it appears that AMC's "The Walking Dead" may have been resurrected after last year’s mostly craptacular second season, which was preceded by a pretty craptacular first season. And the reason seems to be the conservative outlook that the show has now embraced. Let’s pause for a moment to let the fanatic liberal fanboy virgins fulminate and fret over the notion that their favorite zombie show may have been saved by their characters’ (and the writers’) change – unconscious almost certainly – from a liberal world view to a conservative one.... Let’s understand the difference between a liberal world view and a conservative one. It’s not necessarily about retail politics, though you got some sense of it with the “I don’t believe in guns” crap early on, as if the world wasn’t crawling with cannibal corpses looking to dine on the lesser cast members. And it is not just that the views of the Georgian characters seemed to be the same as the views of the provincial Hollywood screenwriters – country folk are racists and sinister, religious folk are abusive and borderline psycho, and the only good cops are the ones who soft pedal the macho......

...my other brother

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"It’s a world view that goes to basic premises. Conservatives (I am using these terms as they apply within the context of modern American politics – save the comments on how “conservatives” are really “classical liberals”) hold a tragic world view. There are iron laws of human nature that don’t change. In contrast, liberals hold an idealized view, one where man can change his essential nature, where he can be perfected.

But this requires a rejection of the world as it is in favor of a world as it can (they believe) be. This leads to the conservative critique that liberals ignore reality and base their policies on feelings. But that is a natural consequence of an ideology concerned not with how man and the world are, but with what they might be transformed – “fundamentally transformed,” to quote a well-known liberal – into.

Now, let’s apply this to the first two seasons of "The Walking Dead." Most of the problems (both within the plot and with the show itself) were a result of characters denying the reality of their situation. Characters focused energy arguing over their petty emotional conflicts like they were back in the suburbs and not in an entirely changed world. Their denial of reality manifested in their rank stupidity – my favorite example was their deciding to gather around a campfire facing inward with no security, like they were going to toast up some s’mores...."

1 posted on 10/22/2012 3:00:17 PM PDT by djone
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To: djone

Gotta figure, in a societal collapse, survival doesn’t leave much room for peace, love, and understanding.


2 posted on 10/22/2012 3:05:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: djone

Dale was the liberal conscience of the show, and he was remarkably wrong in season two when it came to the prisoner they had in captivity. It was Shane that took care of that issue. And Shane was often characterized as being in the wrong, or at least the home of dubious strategies.

Walking Dead isn’t going conservative. The indictment of conservatives will come with the Governor storyline.


3 posted on 10/22/2012 3:14:06 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: cripplecreek

“Gotta figure, in a societal collapse, survival doesn’t leave much room for peace, love, and understanding.”

No it’s not!

Doomsday Preppers : Doris Day of Doom

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91RNXkwTQco (Especially watch at 1:45) ;-)


4 posted on 10/22/2012 3:14:54 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: appalachian_dweller; OldPossum; DuncanWaring; VirginiaMom; CodeToad; goosie; kalee; ...

Preppers’ PING!!


5 posted on 10/22/2012 3:16:29 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: cripplecreek
Gotta figure, in a societal collapse, survival doesn’t leave much room for peace, love, and understanding.

They also killed off Dale, who I liked, but was quite the tree-hugger.

6 posted on 10/22/2012 3:16:45 PM PDT by softwarecreator
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To: cripplecreek

I think if TSHTF today people would react similarly. Some would be so stunned that their familiar world is no longer in existence; others would become the “zombies” trying to take what others have (supplies, weapons, food, shelter, etc.); some would realize the need to band together for survival; others would totally go power hungry and try to capitalize on the situation.

I’m a devoted fan of the show, and it’s been interesting seeing the characters develop from season to season. Definitely gonna watch every episode! :)


7 posted on 10/22/2012 3:17:12 PM PDT by sassy steel magnolia (USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
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To: djone

with the demise of Dale and Shane, there is no longer any moral/ethical diametric opposition or any underlying power struggle undermining Rick’s leadership, there is only Rick’s way and the highway. Given his newly acquired unquestionable unity of command, the group has developed into what they should have been all along, the cure to a disease, a killer T cell in a world of infection. I’m gonna watch last night’s episode in about five minutes. I can’t wait. This show is awesome.


8 posted on 10/22/2012 3:19:30 PM PDT by RC one
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To: djone

I couldn’t stand all the lefty propaganda and quit watching, but if they have come to their senses, I’ll be back.


9 posted on 10/22/2012 3:20:42 PM PDT by Deb (If you wanna laugh everyday, follow Deepak Chopra on Twitter)
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To: djone
I judge the characters on the show by how much their stupid personal issues interfere with the action.

On that scale, Dale, with his whingy moral diatribes, was the absolute worst. I cheered when he died.

The hillbilly hunter guy is the best, though they gave him some annoying touchy-feely moments last year that almost made me dislike him too. And they need to stop with the almost romance between him and the old lesbian haircut chick.

They can get rid of Lori anytime now. Rick is schitzo - but better when he's dark.

I like the black chick with neutralized zombie sidekicks. She's all action! More her, please.

10 posted on 10/22/2012 3:23:30 PM PDT by dead (It ain't over until the phone lady sings.)
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To: softwarecreator
Herschel had to be brutally shocked into reality.

I'm sure the liberals love this.

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Carl is packin and knows how to use it.

He was ready to take out Herschel at a moment's notice in last night's episode.
11 posted on 10/22/2012 3:24:57 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: djone

love that show and I think it captures how one in that sort of life has to be.

The tree hugging, anti gun view would be gone in a heartbeat if the world came to sort of an end.

Dog eats dog and you stay with those you trust.

Oh and I think the redneck, forget his name now is brilliant and by far my best charcater, if TSHTF then he is the kind of guy I want beside me not some pansy, tutu fairy girlie boy/man.


12 posted on 10/22/2012 3:26:09 PM PDT by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: cripplecreek

The ultimate Survivor show.


13 posted on 10/22/2012 3:26:46 PM PDT by McGruff (I smell DESPERATION in the air.)
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To: djone

I never saw liberal platitudes. Yes some characters had a liberal bent, but that’s reality, there will be some liberals that survive a crisis, and these characters generally wound up wrong. If they could have negotiated with the zombies that would have been liberal platitudes. In the show though they generally found out being nice didn’t work and the man of God was right.


14 posted on 10/22/2012 3:28:41 PM PDT by discostu (Not a part of anyone's well oiled machine.)
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To: Kartographer

Doris better cut the hippie neighbor loose. He’s an anchor.


15 posted on 10/22/2012 3:29:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: djone

I have never forgiven AMC for cancelling Rubicon, but I have started watching WD again. Norman Reedus Seriously Rocks. And can I say that Rick is saddled with the dumbest most faithless wife in the zombie world. His kid was also an annoyance last season but seems to have found a sense of self this season to the point where I think even he finds his mother faithless and dumb.


16 posted on 10/22/2012 3:29:46 PM PDT by mancini
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To: djone

The only episode I saw was the one where there was the cliche Conservative White Supremacist and the self righteous angry black man. Of course they left the white guy to die.

I won’t be watching another episode anytime soon.


17 posted on 10/22/2012 3:31:07 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: softwarecreator

I couldn’t stand Dale. He epitomized the most selfish type of person — a person who makes other people make the hard choices, while he snipes from the sidelines, feeling good about himself. His misguided ethics put others in danger, but as long as Dale can sleep at night, nothing else matters.

A fairly typical liberal, in other words. Utterly selfish and damaging to others, yet proclaiming themselves sole owners of the ethical high-ground, as others suffer as a result of their idiocy.


18 posted on 10/22/2012 3:31:49 PM PDT by jjsheridan5
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To: discostu
I never saw liberal platitudes.

In the first season they found a nursing home with all the mexicans taking care of the elderly because all the gringos ran off and left the old people to die. That was pretty bad but it had a few funny parts that made it worthy.
19 posted on 10/22/2012 3:31:52 PM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: RC one

The opposition this season is Rick vs The Governor.

It’s Dark Rick vs Darker Rick.

The Governor is what Rick can become if he doesn’t watch himself.

The Governor will be tagged with conservative themes, though that’s unfair. But it will happen.


20 posted on 10/22/2012 3:35:03 PM PDT by Ted Grant
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