Conservatives Need To Stop Accepting Leftist Premises Of Public Moral Superiority

I guarantee more people will have read this article than saw Chris Cuomo’s show that day. Conservatives should avoid being seen on CNN. MSNBC won’t even allow them on, AFAIK.

Symone Sanders, like all other Democrats and extreme Leftists, is a feral human.

I guess if you want to be heard you have to pull your earpiece and hope you can just talk your words into the transcript.

I call it moral supremacy. Just as bigoted as the other side. Especially when Intersectionality is their belief.

Truer words were never spoken. Cuomo bullied Cuccinelli into that apology even though the liberal talking head needed to be told to shut her yap. If anything, Cuccinelli should have said – I’ll apologize for telling her to shutup after she apologizes to me for conisistently interrupting me, and you apologize to the American people for all the lies you have told about Republicans over the decades.

As we should all know by now, as predicted months ago
BOTH the Republican and the Democratic Parties are shifting off crumbling foundations, for many reasons, including that we face many new threats and opportunities, with remarkable shifts among demographics, with new technologies, with changes in American regions and states, all in a changing world. Each has its own crumbling foundation and since there had been built up some common foundations (what each claimed, how each talked, the resources that each held exclusively or almost exclusively, and the resources each wanted to win, etc) the common foundations are also crumbling. That’s a lot of crumbling.

As the foundations of settled political claims, policy positions, and promises crumble – which erodes public trust, and raises public mis-trust, more and more – making moral claims – especially moral claims that are redolent of ‘trust’, ‘trustworthiness’, etc – can be a powerful move. It suited Republicans in the Reagan years to actually form, join, endorse, promote the ‘Moral Majority’ – DUH! – and now it suits Democrats to make moral claims – DUH!

Republicans’ ‘Moral Majority’ explicitly appealed to trust or trustworthiness of ‘authority’ : the authority implicit when calling self ‘the moral MAJORITY’, pronounced through preachers and pastors, citing Christian (and rarely any other) texts. Currently Democrats appeal to a trust or trustworthiness of ‘knowing how you feel’; how ‘you feel’ about Trump, how ‘you feel’ about racism and other bigots (because, please, no one loves a bigot, even Republicans can’t really love a bigot, can they?)

If Republicans want to get a grip they will have to have a language and a approach that claims a morality – around trust and trustworthiness – that is not primarily about authority, and that does deal with powerful positive feelings at work in America. As often noted Reagan years did speak a lot to powerful positive feelings. Trump provides absolutely NO positive feelings despite his claim to be ‘making America great’. The possibilities that THAT claim had are ABSOLUTELY destroyed by the selectivity of who is appears to be ‘making great’ – as little Lisa Simpson said about Jebediah Springfield, who Trump is ’embiggening’ Trump is always ’embiggening’ himself. And has reached out in effective, sustained ways to ’embiggen’ all of us out here America.

Local and state Republican parties ought to reach out to have an ’embiggening’ discourse, that understands moral emotions, and speaks primarily to positive moral emotions.