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| New conservative magazine |
There’s a new conservative magazine in town with pretentions
to foster “conservative values`` and counter “liberal bias” which has two attractive,
clean cut Nordic types on the front page who wouldn’t look out of place gracing
the cover of Aryan magazine. This is the first magazine with a word count after
every entry on the content list. I guess that most of their prospective
subscribers are reading challenged and used to those teen supermarket tabloids
which have a maximum of three paragraphs per story. Don’t expect cogent
arguments and appeals to critical thinking or at least a logical progression of
thought which isn’t tainted by right wing jeremiads. The writers hail from Fox
news and conservative think tanks. It certainly divides the world into good
conservatives and bad liberals with a Manichean clarity as the video
below demonstrates.
Some of the articles are to alert naive youth
to subliminal propaganda such as the one on the popular TV show, Glee where the
intro quote says “innocent fun outside but hardcore social liberalism inside.`` Come to think of it the Glee club name in the
television series – New Directions – does sound slightly subversive although
the fictional High school was named after an American Republican president , William
Mc Kinley who was assassinated by an anarchist - coincidence or a
secret liberal conspiracy by the mass media to indoctrinate youth? Another
title is “Ronald Regan, our first black president” and describes how Afro
Americans achieved greater economic equality under Regan rather than Obama. It
doesn’t mention how a much higher percentage of destructive subprime loans were
foisted on predominantly Afro American neighbourhoods by unscrupulous bankers
using the infamous reverse red lining strategy during Bush’s term in office. The story with the title ``Why abstention
works and how it can work for you`` with the subtitle ``Science shows that it’s
best to wait. `` Yes. Let the professionals handle the youthful libidos and
more profit to Wall Street. According to a NYT article, “The biggest forum for
sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web
site called Backpage.com. The owners turn out to include private equity
financiers, including Goldman Sachs with a 16 percent stake.”
A
libertarian viewpoint segment with the story line that government creates
poverty using the premise government financial aid creates dependency so people
lack the will to search for work with a particular emphasis on native people in
the article. These libertarian diatribes are never about the loss of civil
liberties incurred by the NDAA gutting of the bill of rights, the evisceration
of the citizenship section of the 14th amendment by the enemy expatriation act
or the destruction of the first amendment rights of freedom of speech and the
right of peaceful assembly in the recent Georgia SB 469. You have the expected story from a
neo-liberal economist, Walter E. Williams of George Mason University, about ”
Understanding Liberals” reflecting on the evils of redistributing wealth
through tax policy or as he says legalized theft. These are the same people
that coined the phrase, tax burden, as if taxes produce no utility such as roads,
schools etc. The end of progressive taxation is more important than losing your
citizenship in secret by an unelected official using arbitrary criteria without
legal recourse as in HB 3166 commonly known as the enemy expatriation act.
It’s a prima
facie truth among American Conservatives that the purpose of traditional colleges
is to inculcate youth with left wing ideas using the ubiquitous liberal
professor, harbinger of radical thoughts and socialist agendas. The info graph
below is from a website that evaluates online schooling and it might be
interesting to note that the top three ranked online schools on the website are
Liberty University, the University of Phoenix and Kaplan University. The first is a private
fundamentalist Christian conservative school founded by Jerry Falwell and the
last two are for profit online schools. Kaplan University is owned by the
Washington Post and accounts for 58% of the newspaper’s revenue which might
explain the recent printing on its opinion page of an article by David C. Levy trashing
public higher education professors as overpaid and underworked. Good PR which
might help the newspaper’s bottom line.
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