2017 has so far been a pretty great year, national tragedies like the one in Las Vegas notwithstanding. Last month it was made even greater when the one time greatest band on the planet (and still pretty great) released a new album. Barenaked Ladies present - "Fake Nudes". Ha ha. Funny. No, really.
It is a great record and it's replete with good stuff. My second or third favorite track is this little ditty.
I just love that it's so optimistic and so happy and the lyrics express how grateful the band is for being rock stars. Unusual in the rock n roll medium for sure, but oh so lovely.
Despite the clumsy attempt to diss our president in the record's title, the material is warm and inviting to everyone. Even the most politically charged song on the record "Invisible Fence" (gee wonder what that's about?) is poppy and catchy enough to be forgiven, and the lyrics really express optimism and hope without getting too specific on any villain in particular.
There might have been a time awhile back when I would've been a bit put off by BNL's progressive infantilism, but those days are gone for me. These days my white hot rage at the liberal lock step has cooled considerably, simply because the culture war has finally taken a turn for the better.
Americans are disgusted by the NFL, stadiums are empty and ratings are in the toilet. Ham fisted attempts by the MSM to lionize the cowardly POS Kapernick have failed miserably. GQ is now a laughing stock.
With the exception of the detestable Roy Moore and to a much lesser extent our president, the left finds itself in a morass of sexual corruption across the board in entertainment and more recently in the cesspool of Washington DC.
I'm not too excited that hyper-partisan hack Al Franken is out the door - he is basically Chuck Shumer's bitch and is being used as a tool to leverage pressure against Moore and Trump in the future. I can only say, I hope it works with Moore and I know it will never work with 45.
Most likely to be discouraging is that the liberal wack job Governor of Minnesota is going to replace Stuart Smalley with someone even more extreme - and that person will be a lot tougher to vote out of office in four years.
I'm meandering a bit - but the main point of this post was to express how happy I am these days that conservative values and principles, especially fiscal, constitutional and patriotic principles, have firmly taken root in the mainstream consciousness.
I was reminded of just how embedded the liberal media used to be in this country when I watched Ken Burns fantastic documentary on the Vietnam War recently. The old school FDR progressivism was so drilled into our brains by the three networks - pretty much the only thing that was on television at the time - and the major newspapers which were still very relevant at the time. So brainwashed was the country, including Republicans, that we jettisoned a president for crimes that were only misdemeanors and would be greatly exceeded in heinousness by Bill Clinton two decades later. Bill the rapist would face his impeachment with a smirk and win re-election easily.
But today, we have so many more choices in how we get our information - so many choices that the conservative mindset has finally rightfully (see what I did there?) emerged front and center as not some fringe Barry Goldwater outlier, but as a legitimate point of view that also happens to be the correct one.
It's the former point - conservatism as a legitimate point of view - that I'm most gratified has finally come to pass in the mainstream American consciousness. Oh the left isn't happy about it, they're fighting it so ferociously that they have jettisoned all traces of civility and thoughtfulness. Everyone who defends the constitution is a racist, especially our President - and libs couldn't give two shits if they smear our founding fathers with that brush as well.
But the good news is, most grown-ups aren't buying it anymore. At least most grown ups who don't live in the toilets that are our major coastal cities these days. The mentally ill havens of San Francisco, LA, New York and a few others - and I mean the actual deranged junkies that now shit and piss where they want at will - are the last bastions of the dying school of thought that is progressivism.
The rust belt, fly over country, middle America, what ever you want to call the majority of God fearing patriots - I like calling us the not so silent majority, isn't buying it anymore. We've seen the emperor without his clothes now, plainly naked and desperate.
And now, with national attention focused on the day care centers known as Universities and the cry babies within - the conservative approach is firmly taking hold in the next generation. And the left thankfully is speeding the process along.
With every flail and shriek, the left continues to dig it's own grave. I know, we're racist, homophobic, ageist, sexist, genderist, whatever. Guess what? Good news - no one gives a fuck.
No one gives a mighty F if you discard one of your own (Franken) to delude yourself that you have a chance to pull a Nixon on Trump. Not going to happen.
No one gives a mighty F that you routinely lie about the facts just so you can have your way. Conservatives now have it dialed in - the Information Age has made it so simple for us.
Liberty > Equality
Freedom > Fairness
Opportunity > Guarantee
Rule of Law > Lawlessness
Facts > Feelings
See? It's so mind-blowingly simple these days. We have dozens of happy conservative warriors who kick ass on a daily basis - on the Youtubes and on the radio and even on a television news station that beats every other news station combined in the ratings.
The information is out there, and it is sinking in. And for that I am so grateful.
Things truly are looking up.
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