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The Patriot Post Digest 10-3-2016
From The Federalist Patriot
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Clearly, “progressive” means the ever-progressing destruction of traditional American values. This includes fundamentally transforming family, church and synagogue, neighborhood, schools, marriage, authentic Liberty and, sadly, even the truth. And the Left regularly chastises the Right for not going along with this “tolerance.” Such chastisement comes from Saul Alinsky’s Rule # 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
For example, we’ll look at two TV shows that show how our entertainment industry seeks to affect the outcome of redefining marriage and a sense of self.
Brent Bozell and Tim Graham offered the case in point in their analysis18 of the ABC TV show, “Modern Family.” The gents framed up what we’ve long called entertainment as indoctrination19 quite nicely by walking readers through the liberal success of portraying same-sex marriage as commonplace. Despite about 500,000 same-sex marriages as reported by USA Today in June this year, compared to the more than 60 million traditional marriages reported in 2015, a 1% occurrence has been defined as commonplace on TV.
Until the 1970s, entertainment mirrored our society. Today, entertainment works to chisel away at the bedrock of morality, decency and even commonsense, to have society model its sad display of everything from excessive sexuality and objectifying women to the outright disdain for manhood.
The writers of “Modern Family” weren’t satisfied with portraying same-sex marriage as common, so they’re now introducing a transgender character — and a child, no less.
In their scrutiny, Bozell and Graham noted the Disney-owned ABC, along with many other hard Left activists who dominate the entertainment industry, is exposed as a cultural deconstructionist with an agenda not to entertain but to indoctrinate. An eight-year-old Atlanta actor selected to “play” the transgender boy will allegedly press the homosexual characters of the show to examine if their tolerance is elastic enough. Translation: The new normal is not only same-sex marriage but the further reaches of gender disorientation pathology20.
“Modern Family” doesn’t stand alone. Arguably more insidious is ABC’s “Once Upon a Time,” because it’s a show marketed to families. The show features fairy tale characters transported into our world, and it’s a clever jumble of Snow White, Prince Charming and the Evil Queen, along with Rumpelstiltskin, Hook, Robin Hood and the Wicked Witch of the West, to name a few. Most of the fun is harmless. Except when it’s not.
In an episode that originally aired this April, Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz shared a romantic storyline with Little Red Riding Hood, ending with “true love’s kiss” breaking a sleeping spell. In an interview with “Entertainment Weekly,” the co-creators Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz lay out the lesbian-themed story plainly and clearly: It was “just another example of how in a fairy tale, as in life, love is love. Our goal is to make it as we see it in the real world, just as normal and as a part of everyday life as it should be.”
It’s the embodiment of the Left’s “love wins” slogan. They weren’t winning by claiming rights, so they had to change strategies. Once it became about love, they had a winning formula. Unsuspecting families watching “Once Upon a Time” find themselves identifying and sympathizing with two lesbian characters who are simply following their hearts. What could be so wrong with that?
Every single day this battle for the minds of our children and culture at large is being waged. And, sadly, the militant Left is winning. They’re winning by portraying falsehoods as reality, even if it is fairy tale based. They’re winning by creating emotional narratives around a weakness in our society — the confidence in one’s own identity.
The last few generations of our children have been exposed and trained up with the philosophy that self-esteem is the most critical element in the success of child-rearing and development. We now have millions of youth and young adults who believe they are, indeed, very important. So important that they should have free college tuition. They are entitled to a safe space where their “gender identity” is fluid and must be validated by everyone around them. And “love” — however they define it today — is an end in itself.
In using the term “culture,” we connote it to be the anthropological composition of accepted values, habits, knowledge, beliefs and behaviors that are manifested in arts and entertainment, families, religions, government, business, the media and “journalism” and educational systems. Our culture has been inarguably changed over the years with these seven entities being weaponized to create a culture, instead of reflecting a society.
Let’s for a moment view “culture” in the sense of an artificial medium rich with nutrients and resources in a controlled environment that feed organisms devoted to replication. Once this culture of like-minded creatures has colonized sufficiently and are introduced into a host environment — the aforementioned venues — the insult begins and the host can and will be overwhelmed.
What’s the cure? Not more of the same!
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Peggy Noonan: “The 24/7 news cycle and the million multiplying platforms with their escalating demands — for pictures, video, sound, the immediate hot take — exhaust politicians and staff, and media people too. Everyone is tired, and chronically tired people live, perilously, on the Edge of Stupid. More important, modern media realities make everything intellectually thinner, shallower. Everything moves fast; we talk not of the scandal of the day but the scandal of the hour, reducing a great event, a presidential campaign, into an endless river of gaffes. The need to say something becomes the tendency to say anything. It makes everything dumber, grosser, less important. This year I am seeing something, especially among the young of politics and journalism. They have received most of what they know about political history through screens. … They’ve heard the sound bite but not read the speech. Their understanding of history, even recent history, is superficial. … They learned through sensation, not through books, which demand something deeper from your brain. Reading forces you to imagine, question, ponder, reflect. It provides a deeper understanding of political figures and events. … If you can’t read deeply you will not be able to think deeply. If you can’t think deeply you will not be able to lead well, or report well.”
SHORT CUTS
The Gipper: “Excellence demands competition. Without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence — in education or in any other walk of life.”
Village Idiots: “If I could I would take all the guns in America, put them on big barges and go dump them in the ocean. Nobody would have a gun. Not police, not security, not anybody. We should eliminate all of them. We could save 33,000 people a year if we didn’t have guns in this country. … They are a scourge of this country and no one should have one as far as I’m concerned. There’s no defense to guns. There’s just absolutely no reason to have them.” —Oregon Judge Kenneth Walker
Braying Jackass: “[Colin Kaepernick] took a knee. And now he’s started a huge conversation about what it means to be American, what it means to be proud to be an American, what it means to salute the flag, because he took a knee.” —Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban
How does throwing Americans on the government dole accomplish that? “I believe one of the jobs of the president is to encourage more service, to help more Americans answer President Kennedy’s call. You know it: ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.’” —Hillary Clinton
Feel the Bern: “[Bernie Sanders' acolytes are] children of the Great Recession and they are living in their parents' basement. And so if you’re consigned to, you know, being a barista or, you know, some other job that doesn’t pay a lot and doesn’t have much of a ladder of opportunity attached to it, then the idea that maybe, just maybe, you could be part of a political revolution is pretty appealing.” —Hillary Clinton
And last… “Someone sent me an item that perfectly summed up Hillary Clinton to my satisfaction. The caption to her photo read: ‘Why can’t you people understand that the medical problems I don’t have are the reason I can’t remember the criminal acts I didn’t commit.’” —Burt Prelutsky
Semper Vigilans Fortis Paratus et Fidelis!
Managing Editor Nate Jackson
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