I would suggest listening to our Gen Z youth but then would suggest strong, wise, and consequential correction.
No one is "driving them into the arms of Maoists": they are leaping head-first into the next movement that their entire tribe has decided to embrace. History is repleat with warnings as to where this ends...
"Old ideas are for Old People" is a direct echo of the Maoist Cultural Revolution’s campaign against the “Four Olds.” In 1966 Mao and the Red Guards launched “Smash the Four Olds”: old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.
These were denounced as the poisonous inheritance of the exploiting classes that had to be destroyed so the new revolutionary order could be built.
Old ideas were explicitly named as one of the four targets. The agents of this destruction were largely young students - the Red Guards - who were told that the past was obsolete and that the youth were the "pure vanguard" who would purge it.
The age of the person or the idea is treated as evidence against it. No argument required. Just the label “old.”
This is the operating logic of the present cultural revolution that "American Ascent" is attempting to spark.
The Woke version declares the old ideas racist, sexist, colonial, etc., and therefore disposable. The “old people” framing is just the same purge with the class language swapped for generational language. Heritage is treated as pollution, continuity is treated as guilt, and the past has to be cleared so the "new world" can be built (or, "Built Back Better").
The claim is also stupid on its face.
Almost every functional idea we have is old.
The ones that survive did so because they worked. Treating “old” as a synonym for “wrong” is how you get book burnings and struggle sessions, not progress. Ideas are evaluated by whether they are true and useful, not by the birth year of the people who hold them.
That’s Mao's Four Olds --- straight up.
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POLITICO: “American Ascent promises to recruit and elect a new generation of young ‘America First’ candidates.”
Ending American Decline. Leading America’s Ascent.
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@Just_A_Man67 The DARVO represented here should not be surprising for those who are attempting to run an actual Maoist-inspired struggle session on GenX and Boomers in the Republican Party.
The Bible is pretty old—and it’s literally the source of all that is true, good, and beautiful.
“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.’”
—1 Samuel 16:7
Beware of those who tickle your ears
Mike is completely correct here. Whatever this new astroturfed BS "American Ascent" organization is, it's running on Maoist-style Red Guard technology and dark ethics. I'm pretty confident conservatives will be generally dumb enough to support it and get more of what they deserve
Remember @EWErickson's article quoting deranged @ClaremontInst donor Charles Haywood? Claremont circled the wagons around Haywood's indefensible bigotry: https://t.co/H338DUFoGo
Note how @RyanMNeuhaus responded to proof Charles Haywood is a nutty racist: "no one cares"
I pray that @RonDeSantis resists the woke right's pressure campaign. There are a lot of good, American patriots that back him, and there are a lot of foreign accounts and bots that back the woke right.
This is your nightly roundup of “Postliberals Gone Wild”
1. Tucker says Trump loves abortion thrown in with a lot of demon talk.
2. Fishbeck and Bannon talk echo chambers projection that they in fact have created one.
3. Israel runs Trump and our foreign policy.
4. Trump is betraying the base.
5. MacIntrye whose looking a little disheveled there, maybe American Moment can teach him how to shower daily too lets his audience know everyone at his Walmart would be deported.
The woke left and the woke right are the same for one reason, they both hate America and want to tear it down fundamentally so they can build whatever version of Utopia (when they have yet to agree on ever) in its place.
By all means, more people should out themselves as associating with this absolute dumpster fire of subversive, anti-American, antisemitic, Woke Right hacks.
Last year, @AmReformer cofounder @NateAFischer said "I have no problem associating with bumbadum" after Fischer's blog retracted a story from the anonymous white supremacist.
This June alone, bumbadum reposted Fischer & @NoahWall's @RedStatesLead (which has <5K followers) 7X. 🤔
The first quote @RyanMNeuhaus used to promote his "American Ascent" launch video is from @JDVance speaking to @oren_cass's "American Compass" ...which has received $4.7 million from the progressive Hewlett Foundation to launder old left-wing economics as new right-wing economics.