Losing the Culture War
We're losing the most important war, and that's the culture war. The power driving the left's momentum right now is staggering. They currently control:
� Academia
� Tech
� All social media
� Payment processors and credit cards
They are leveraging every advantage they have:
� All levels of academia from K through college are indoctrinating our children to believe that republicans/conservatives are the scourge and excrement of the known universe. With each passing year, more and more of these millennials reach voting age while the oldest of our generation die
� Social media and tech are monopolized by leftists like Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, Jack Dorsey of Twitter, Sundar Pichai of Google, Susan Wojcicki of YouTube, and Jack Conte of Patreon, all of whom have cultivated leftist monocultures within their organizations. With unfathomable power to silence dissent and change our culture at their fingertips, they continue to suppress non-left-leaning speech all across the internet
� Payment processors like PayPal and Stripe routinely ban high-profile conservatives from their platform. And if the payment processors don't get them, Mastercard does
This is massive territory that the left has claimed and you can see the effects that it's having on our culture right now:
� The latest incident in wokeness can be attributed to Gillette with their ad that uses a broad brush to paint men as harassers and general misogynists. In any other timeline, such an ad would have been a very bold move, especially for a company with such a large male customer base, but it is likely that Gillette were coaxed out of their shell thanks a perceived political climate cultivated on Twitter where progressive ideals have taken over the mainstream. However, it backfired on them as soon as the dislikes started rolling in ten-to-one on YouTube, one of the last social media services that remain mostly untouched by algorithms that favor left-leaning content. This thrashing didn't last for long, though, as dislikes and comments critical of the ad were deleted until the ratio gradually narrowed to two-to-one three days later. This tells us that YouTube isn't far behind in implementing AI to protect left-leaning content that fails to stand up to the slightest scrutiny.
� For past incidents, we can look to the companies that dropped their advertisers and discount programs whenever David Hogg would take to Twitter with a tweet that amasses 100-200k likes and retweets. With approval numbers like this, companies are quick to buckle under pressure in fear of losing customers in a PR disaster
Sadly, I don't know what can be done between now and November 2020 to reverse this defeat. Republicans had the house and senate in the first two years of Trump's administration, but squandered every opportunity to pull the reins on social media. They have held numerous hearings with social media CEOs over the topic of suppression of conservative views on their platforms, but, each and every time, the hearings consisted of nothing more than a bunch of old men who know nothing about technology asking softball questions while the social media CEOs talk circles around them.
Now with the 2018 midterms behind us, it would be impossible for an internet bill of rights to make its way past the dem-controlled house. With Ocasio-Cortez's tweets oftentimes amassing hundreds of thousands of likes within a 24-hour period, a ratio that not even POTUS could dream of reaching, would anyone expect them to give up the power they currently wield on social media?
So, basically, I think the future is bleak for anyone who doesn't lean to the left. Unless Trump can legislate tech and social media reform through the federal court, we're all going to be dead in the water when 2020 comes around. So does anyone care to white pill me here? Because I am feeling pretty black pilled.