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BigOinSeattle's avatar

I don’t much care for Rogan but there’s no denying his popularity and appeal to a wider audience, and you are of course correct that he’s no right winger. Just look up his podcast where he’s fawning over a black murderer freed by the innocence project. Only Reddit tier shitlibs think that he is right wing.

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Yuri Bezmenov's avatar

On the same wavelength. The DNC's message and messengers are both rotten. If the right spent 1% of the resources as the left does on culture, we could achieve 100x better results and win the culture for generations: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/dnc-astroturf-pivot

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

FWIW: The Party That Cannot Tell You What A Woman is, Mad Men Will Not Vote For Them. https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/the-party-that-cannot-tell-you-what

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Zeeb33's avatar

Auron’s writing never disappoints.

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william brown's avatar

The left already has their Manhattan project. We are bombarded 24/7 with progressive ideology in every institution that forms public opinion: almost every TV set in a public place is set on CNN, NPR broadcasts with crystal clarity on mountain tops and deserts; the media is saturated with leftist propaganda. It’s the air we breathe.

This, of course, is not to mention that every major institution from big corporations, government schools, the arts, higher education, hospitals, etc. propagate leftism.

Travel anywhere in the world and turn on the TV you will see CNN. Charlie Kirk just returned from Oxford and Cambridge and said that US progressive broadcasting is in your face and omnipresent.

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Aan, Eater of Gods's avatar

Why do you think nearly everyone, every institution, every corporation, and every nation seems to broadly lean into progressivism?

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william brown's avatar

I think it’s the raging spiritual battle that we all live in. Some have eyes to see it more clearly than others.

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ThePossum's avatar

Hey doesn't Michelle Obama have a podcast already? And what about Meghan of Harry fame? Those 2 would make phenomenal surrogates for all the normies out there who don't get enough daily crazy from The View. If it's a man they want, perhaps Dylan Mulvaney could pull double duty, or, let's see, maybe Tim Walz! He connects so well with the pick-up truck bros.... A Joe Rogan alternative is totally in his wheelhouse.

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Roberto Graziotto's avatar

I notice what MacIntyre writes when you discuss the AfD here in Germany; scolding posture is the organizing principle; dialogue is impossible, even with friends; you just have to “confess” (in the sense of a religious creed) that the AfD is the only major political danger; moralists do not argue, they bombard you with quotes that you cannot verify hermeneutically; you just have to accept them as truth, and if you say that you think Germany's military spending is excessive and that this is the real problem, you are immediately suspected of being pro-Putin or some other devilry. There is no longer a culture of dialogue, but simply the control of “populist” thinkers, who are therefore dangerous. Let's hope the system isn't perfect.

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SamizBOT's avatar

Technology increasingly reduces people to conduits through which their online life is conducted. Hence, being good is determined not by actions but by beliefs and statements. Progressivism in its current form is viewing the person as an accretion of right or wrong opinions. Rigid orthodoxy is therefore the sine qua non of the enterprise. The right has the same problem to a much lesser extent. MAGA is in part a rejection of this and an appeal to return to practical concerns and pragmatism

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