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**Slchtjgb** · 06-16-2012, 01:35 PM

To control the politics of a nation, control of the culture is a precondition. For who controls the culture defines what is moral and immoral, and what is heroic and villainous. And if you can set limits on what journalists write and broadcasters say, you can shape what people think and believe.

Through history, frightened establishments have dealt severely even with peaceful challenges to their power, which is why Socrates was forced to drink poison, Christ was crucified, Sir Thomas More was beheaded and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sent to the Gulag.

http://www.humanevents.com/2012/03/1...new-blacklist/

Liberals captured the culture by being bold. They went over the top with everything, and succeeded in normalizing what was once taboo.

Conservatives aren't bold, these days. They apologize for everything.

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Slchtjgb Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 515 Senior Member	To control the politics of a nation, control of the culture is a precondition. For who controls the culture defines what is moral and immoral, and what is heroic and villainous. And if you can set limits on what journalists write and broadcasters say, you can shape what people think and believe. Through history, frightened establishments have dealt severely even with peaceful challenges to their power, which is why Socrates was forced to drink poison, Christ was crucified, Sir Thomas More was beheaded and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was sent to the Gulag. http://www.humanevents.com/2012/03/1...new-blacklist/ Liberals captured the culture by being bold. They went over the top with everything, and succeeded in normalizing what was once taboo. Conservatives aren't bold, these days. They apologize for everything.
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