Political Thoughts Turning the Culture War

Eli Beiss

The Right is consistently losing the culture war. The Left dominates institutions, from the educa tional systems to the FBI and IRS, the arts, and even the sciences, where it would seem logic alone should reign. At times, the Left’s domination can seem overwhelming and inevitable. Like a slow tide gradually submerging you with no means to fight back. The truth is, there is a way to fight back. The culture war doesn’t start in the institutions the Left captured. It starts in everyday conversations between average citizens, and that is where you can begin to do your part to fight back and shift the tide.

A stark distinction between the aver age leftist and right-winger is leftists are vo ciferous about their beliefs and unashamed of them. They take no issue spouting their beliefs in public to acquaintances or even strangers, simply assuming listeners are of the fold. Right-wingers would never dream of taking such liberties and indeed prefer to keep quiet and believe in their hearts. Why does the Right behave this way?

The Left has spent the past decade or two demonizing the Right as racist, bigoted, and homophobic, or any ‘phobic’ available, really. Every right-wing belief has been recategorized as a hidden means of oppression, greed, racism, ableism, transphobia, or some other leftist smear. This message has been so effectively pumped into the population that for someone to just of the reaction professing them elicits. It’s the ultimate gaslighting. How many times have you heard someone say, “I’m rightwing, but I’m not racist” or, “I’m rightwing, but I don’t like Trump.” If you feel the need to defend being on the Right the moment you confess to it, you have been brainwashed by the Left, battered into a corner of submissiveness.

Rescue yourself from this conditioning and you can begin to turn the tide of the culture war.

Firstly, it is inappropriate for someone to treat you badly for being conservative. Never let a person’s abrasive behavior

Do not, however, be deliberately contentious, hunting for moments to start debates and seizing them. Where appropriate, speak. Never censor yourself. Never feel like you want to speak but don’t out of shame. It is in that moment that you are ceding the culture war.

Remember, you share beliefs with about half the country, not some small fringe group of maniacs the Left would have you believe. If strength in numbers is what you need, that’s enough people to inspire confidence to stand firmly alongside your beliefs. Furthermore, this massive yet silent group of people is largely composed of individuals like you, who are either too afraid or avoidant to speak up. That is why you mostly don’t see them and hear them. You see far less of their flags and bumper stickers. They are restricted to being themselves in enclaves of homogeneous thinking. All the more reason to start speaking up and normalizing being on the Right for yourself and your fellow. espouse a right-wing view can draw him under fire and public scrutiny. Furthermore, the Right themselves have become so accustomed to this negative reaction that it feels confrontational just to own up to being on the Right. Why say anything when you know it may upset someone or waylay you when you can just as easily go about your day in peace? The Right feels cowed like this daily, while the leftist feels unfettered and free.

This is how we begin to take back the culture. On the streets, in bars, schools, and workplaces. When politics arise and the opportunity to speak presents itself, calmly purport your position, not to stir the pot or stoke animosity, but to lay claim to a legitimate belief system. Do so without shame or fear and renormalize being of the Right. If people react with disdain or umbrage, let the burden of justifying their actions be on them. Maintain your calm and equilibrium. Let them know we are not afraid, we are not the evil they pretend to think we are, and, most of all, we are not ashamed.

Eli Beiss is from New York and has been living in Los Angeles for the past 12 years. He operates an auto brokerage called Emblem Leasing and dabbles in writing and political discourse in his free time.

The Left’s reaction of outrage and animosity to a right-winger does more than just compel silence, it conditions one to feel that his beliefs are immoral because suppress your normal behavior. Remind yourself, it is the snowflake leftist, eager to be offended and contentious, who is out of line. You cannot control another person’s behavior, but you can stop them from controlling yours. This is to say, do not be meek and cowardly. That is why we are losing the culture war in the first place. The Right’s silence emboldens leftists to be loud and pushy. Silence from one side creates deafening noise from the other side. The taboo of being on the Right grows the more we allow it too. This taboo must be broken and it starts with you on the Right not being ashamed or withdrawn.