Chin up, bucko! It may not be as bad as it seems - Granite Grok

Chin up, bucko! It may not be as bad as it seems

Andrew Breitbart said that politics is downstream from culture – in other words, the culture changes the mores of the population which changes political leanings.  We on the Right oft bemoan the capture of the educational system, the Hollywood movie / TV industry, the music industry, and the media in general, by the Left.  One cannot help see the changes by people who are voting that seemingly vote contrary to our founding philosophies – and then find out that they have no idea of what those founding documents actually are.  And we sit and think “well, that 250 years down the drain” and that the country is in decline.

Well, buckos, sometimes we are just too pessimistic a bunch at times.  John Nolte at Big Government has 11 points for you to consider if you believe that “all is lost!” in this culture war (emphasis mine):

1. While judges are legalizing gay marriage, Christianity is making a major comeback in the free market of entertainment.

2. While pot is being legalized in a few states, the pro-abortion movement is on its heels in a majority of states and in opinion polls.

3. While television shows become more sex-driven, elsewhere on television the masculine male is making a comeback on wildly popular reality shows that celebrate the working class and their traditional values.

4. While Colbert wins David Letterman’s spot, Jimmy Fallon figured out he had to remain apolitical if he wanted to remain number one.

5. While the rise of the weak, neurotic, man-child metrosexual-nerd dominates one forgettable movie after another, a new Golden Age in television has brought us an assembly line of flawed but masculine anti-heroes — “real men” protagonists like Jack Bauer, Don Draper, Walter White, Raylan Givens, Tony Soprano, the cast of The Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire, and even House of Cards.

6. While Miley twerks and MTV baby-mamas, unions and the union mentality are dying.

7. While the left-wing mainstream media figures out how to survive, conservative media is on the upswing.

8. While the gaystapo makes war against those who don’t wish to celebrate the gay-married, the demand for charter schools and school choice grows.

9. While we’re paying for Sandra Fluke’s right to birth control, we’re prevailing on our Second Amendment civil rights in ways unimagined just ten years ago.

10. While our federal government is constructing Orwellian First Amendment Zones, the Supreme Court is slowly suffocating the campaign finance laws that gave our government, union and media overseers a near-monopoly on political speech.

11. Occupy is dead. The Tea Party lives.

No, this doesn’t mean that we’re “good to go” – it just means that things are not as bleak as we might feel they are.  Time to double down and get cracking to do your part in shifting the road to follow.  After all, just kvetching gets you little – doing makes the changes.  People are doing just that – unsatisfied with the status quo and seeing the country going sideways, each of the above points required people to stand up, show up, get active, and be persistent to get the job done.

So, what are YOU doing?

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