Couldn’t navigate to Part I of this, but then I am on my phone. Interesting read!
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Found part 1, both were fascinating.
Never heard any of their songs other than “Renee” — have queued up all the songs mentioned in the articles just to see what I missed.

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Since I don’t know that writer, I can’t assess her unsupported claims to be able to tell that many (or most) of the #walkaway followers/tweeters/whatevers are fake-bots-Russians!.
However, she lists a LOT of the tweets and the inaugural videos, so maybe this will be a case of feeding the dog that bites you.

Of more interest to me was this article by another writer at Arcdigital, which is almost even-handed, although you can tell he is spinning as hard as he can to make not serving Sanders OK but not serving gay-wedding-cakes NOT-OK.
He also misstates the case somewhat: same-sex marriages were not legal in Colorado at the time, so the baker was not “breaking the law” in that particular regard.

https://arcdigital.media/sarah-huckabee-sanders-gay-wedding-cakes-and-fundamental-questions-about-freedom-c479fbccfea7

just curious…

That’s an interesting way to put it…
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-suicide-of-europe/

I do like the Quote Investigator (I monitor his blog), and he points out that the quote neither crosses time nor borders well by his examples. The words simply do not mean the same things across those two. If the quote justifies American Conservatism then it justifies French Republicanism, or the conservative world of Benjamin Disraeli. The small ‘c’ conservative is not American conservatism

Further, what is liberal and what is conservative? From what I see from both sides, the words are just parodies of the reality of both, cuz they interlap. You did strike a moment of cogence by adding “far left”. How about the understanding that liberal Republicans and Democrats are more alike, share more values, than the far-right, add descriptive terms, and the far-left, more descriptive terms (I’m better versed in the latter from my time as a Republican, so that would be Progressives, SJW, and the Marxists, but not exclusive).

Now what did I mean by liberal Republicans and Democrats? People that believe in the Rule of Law and it’s basis, people that do not idolatrize any branch of government nor excuse any branch when it breaks the Rule of Law, people that believe in equality under the law but not equal outcomes through law, and people that can see that when our cultural beliefs and laws break our foundational political philosophy those beliefs and laws need to be changed.

“That’s a Twitter hashtag for a group that’s right up my alley: people who recently have switched from liberal to—well, if not conservative, at least to non-liberal, or have become non-Democrats.” Which means what? Non-liberals and C(c)onservatives have been for parsing our Amendment rights out of existence, a non-liberal SCOTUS is more likely to rule for government ‘needs’ and against the Bill of Rights. And Democrats, all Democrats, have been working towards what? Anti-Republicanism? Where the solace except in some false dichotomy? We make so much out of so little.

Frankly, the Europeans are more politically astute than we because they aren’t stuck in our dichotomy.

http://www.neoneocon.com/2015/04/03/the-band-that-just-walked-away-renee-part-ii-the-lyrics/
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Family, fireworks, and a walk down memory lane – doesn’t get any better than that.
Happy Fourth of July to everyone.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Joe%20Walsh%20Walk%20Away

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_4iQDYDVNo

“They” in cultural Othering works for fake liberals as well as conservatives. Humans do not have immunity merely because they want to claim a party or philosophy.

It is why people react negatively irregardless of which side of this Blue vs Red fight they are on, so long as they perceive some Other as threatening them.

As for youtube, people are going to have to move away from it given who owns and controls it. So far, most content creators are on youtube so the migration will need a good alternative competitor. Then a word of mouth campaign which should not be a problem given social media.

Patreon or Twitch is the most popular alternatives so far, but they don’t really do the same thing as Youtube.