11-16-2019, 03:16 AM
(11-15-2019, 01:52 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: If The New York Times thinks it explores conservatives with "deep knowledge", you can be pretty sure it's a left wing travesty - and that's confirmed in the rest of the review.
I also don't see any actual generational theory, other than the reference in the title.
At this point, it is safe to assume that liberal journalists know conservatives either as deceased persons or as contemporary stereotypes (hicks in Appalachia, snake-handlers, young-Earth creationists, Holy Rollers, people who believe to this day that Barack Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya, etc.) and of course ranters devoid of morals and kindness (like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh).
The real problem is that America no longer has much of a center-right, people with some flexibility on social issues and who have an interest in a vibrant economy in which financial assets don't get trivialized in inflation.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.