Okay, to make it clear, I’m (sort of) conservative. So my mocking this video is very much in sorrow rather than, etc:
But there are no words to describe how awful this thing is. One example: about 30 seconds after praising women who aren’t feminist, they go:
"Superman that socialism/ Waterboard that terrorism WOAH!"
And this is the face of angry, talented young conservatism. Of course, these are two college-aged kids, but all political movements are shaped by their young, fiery supporters who go out, knock on doors, and tell people why they should vote for someone or other. These are the voices that either build bonds, or scare people.
Look, maybe their passions will moderate, but what scares me far more is that this is where people who used to believe that "Ideas have consequences" now see no deep rhetorical contradiction in traditional values being defending by Soulja Boy’s favorite move. It’s not the contradiction, it’s the lack of irony that freaks me out.
(H/T boingboing)



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When you’re actively supporting a movement that in the last couple years failed spectacularly, leaving in it’s wake a series of epic disasters from the middle east to new orleans to wall street, that specifically excludes the diversity that is every young american’s everyday experience, that advocates the most authoritarian policies from surveillance to detention to human rights and that sees the biggest societal challenges to be denying basic rights to people on the basis of who they love and defending that notably oppressed and hated demographic, white men, you are necessarily and by definition NOT going to gain the support of the “cool kids”.
This leaves only angry white nerds and rural bigots as their younger supporters. Not the most persuasive of messengers, alas…
mikey