Why They Hate Us

I can't take credit for this insight, it really comes via Andrew Klavan (New York Times bestselling author, creator of the "Another Kingdom" trilogy and podcast host).

Klavan spends a lot of time commenting on the culture, and Klavan has noted that in the culture today, conservatives live amongst what has become a culture dominated by Progressives and cultural Liberals (as opposed to classical political liberals). 

Because of this, conservatives understand progressive culture.  We're subjected to it daily. Our news (if you watch anything other than Fox or OANN) is dominated by it. Our movies are dominated by left-wing filmmakers, and TV is full of it.

Our public education systems are run and populated by teachers steeped in the teachings of The Left.  The universities are dominated by far left professors. Only in STEM education can you escape a massive split of liberal to conservative numbers, and even in some sciences, the Left is taking over.

All this is to say that we, conservatives, understand you, progressives.  Mark Dice hits on this in a tweet today:

Massive hit piece on YouTubers in today's New York Times.    The latest wave of censorship is just getting started.  They smell blood.    https://t.co/a88tLqRfMm

— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) June 8, 2019

Dice quotes the Times article referring to You Tuber Caleb Cain:

"He began referring to himself as a “tradcon” — a traditional conservative, committed to old-fashioned gender norms. He dated an evangelical Christian woman, and he fought with his liberal friends." These are signs one is becoming "radicalized" according to the New York Times."

And people in this person's orbit were shocked at how radical this was:

“It was kind of sad,” said Zelda Wait, a friend of Mr. Cain’s from high school. “I was just, like: ‘Wow, what happened? How did you get this way?’” hahaha. How dare a guy date a Christian woman, and support traditional family values!

We used to have a name for  what Caleb Cain is describing himself as, and it was "normal."

To The Left, however, someone with Christian values, who describes themselves with pretty traditional conservative beliefs, is a "radical."

Of course we would be radical to these people, they don't know us. They never meet us, they don't hang out with us. They don't see us in movies or on TV, and when they do, it's a caricatured version that paints us as evil troglodytes who deny climate science and want women locked in cages making babies.

The real problem is because these people own the culture, they're worldview is amplified, and they think everyone holds their opinions and beliefs.  They don't look at surveys that show that most people fall into the mostly conservative category in their personal beliefs.  They think 75% of the public believes that abortion should be legal for the full term. They think 100% of democrats think Donald Trump should be impeached. They think socialism works.

They think we're out of touch.  And with the culture, we may be, but with reality, they are the ones out of touch.  But that won't help you very much, because until we take the culture back, they will dominate, and things will only get worse.