{"id":77314,"date":"2021-04-02T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77314"},"modified":"2021-04-01T21:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T02:10:45","slug":"ideas-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77314","title":{"rendered":"Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Monday, I linked to an article by Glenn Reynolds about how to deal with the attack-wokies<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To wit – never apologize, bring your friends, and punch back twice as hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ll come back to that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of conservatism’s great mistakes was forsaking the small, independent blogs that dominated (along with, naturally, conservative talk radio) the alternative media scene in the 2000s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the heyday of the independent blog, there was a natural, organic network of supporters that would rally – almost always online – when one of the left’s droogs started dishing what was, at the time, almost always some pretty pathetic smack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, two things have happened:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Altogether too many conservative content producers took their game to Twitter and Facebook – and either got censored into nothing, or just atrophied. <\/li>
  2. Big Left invested in turning their attack machine from a pack of chancred losers into a pack of chancred losers with venal, dull but constantly practiced teeth. Cancel culture has become the norm across swathes of society that were still fairly open and healthy a decade ago when Andrew Breitbart warned us about losing the culture war. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    So – how do the good guys ‘n gals start to organize, to fight the dirty part of the culture war again? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Ten years ago, when it was still good, clean fun, we had it down. Today, the jackals are running rings around the good guys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    It’s two-minute warning time at the state cuture war finals, and we’re down by two touchdowns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How do the good guys get back in the game with the game that matters – organization, organic institutions that fight these battles, and the will to fight and win?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (While I run an open discussion at all times, lefties are urged to sit this one out). <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Monday, I linked to an article by Glenn Reynolds about how to deal with the attack-wokies. To wit – never apologize, bring your friends, and punch back twice as hard. I’ll come back to that. One of conservatism’s great mistakes was forsaking the small, independent blogs that dominated (along with, naturally, conservative talk radio) the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-conservatism","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77314"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77349,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77314\/revisions\/77349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}