{"id":738,"date":"2017-01-02T20:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=738"},"modified":"2017-01-02T20:40:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T01:40:19","slug":"2017-the-dawn-of-the-age-of-the-deplorables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/2017-the-dawn-of-the-age-of-the-deplorables\/","title":{"rendered":"2017: The Dawn of the Age of the Deplorables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in my previous post, I spent a very nice week and a half relaxing and enjoying the Christmas holiday.\u00a0 As part of that I read an awful lot of right wing and sort of right wing commentary.\u00a0 And it occurred to me that things are definitely looking up on our side of the blogosphere.\u00a0 Christmas Eve I watched the beginning of this five hour (!) set of interviews.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"783\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Fj9jm6tqrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The host Stefan Molyneux has a series of videos where he interviews people about politics, philosophy, religion and life.\u00a0 Ostensibly this series of interviews are about Christmas.\u00a0 But that\u2019s a jumping off point in some cases to discuss the year just passed and the new year coming up.\u00a0 If you are not familiar with most of these people then I\u2019ll say that they are spread across a continuum of ideologies starting on the left at about what used to pass for a liberal (but now would be too mild for the left today) all the way to some pretty hard core alt-right types.\u00a0 Happily, for me, none of them here have joined the goose-stepping lunatics that abut this political neighborhood a little too closely for comfort.\u00a0 But they are all unapologetic in their scorn for social justice warriors, America-haters and other lefty lunatic types that reflexively attack all things normal and good.\u00a0 Some of them are not Trump fans, others came around by the end and some were predicting his win a year, ago.\u00a0 But all of them are part of the new media.\u00a0 They have cast their lot with the new way of reaching the people.\u00a0 They run their own businesses and have their own audiences and get paid for telling a side of the story that the main stream media doesn\u2019t tell.\u00a0 They are more interesting and more relevant than most of what Fox provides and a thousand times better than the nonsense on CNN, ABC, NBC or CBS.\u00a0 It\u2019s very hard to predict if any of these folks will survive the brutal competition that exists in the media environment today.\u00a0 I hope they do.\u00a0 They inject humor and wit and points of view that aren\u2019t permitted to exist on the network shows.\u00a0 And interestingly they seem to be plugged into some of the trends that everyone else missed this year.\u00a0 If that fact indicates a better grasp on what really will be happening in the near future, then maybe they\u2019ll thrive.\u00a0 I recommend that if you\u2019re interested in what different voices are saying about our changing world then look around and see what\u2019s going on.\u00a0 You may be pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 After all these are the deplorables that that Hillary warned us about and you remember how well that worked out for her!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I noted in my previous post, I spent a very nice week and a half relaxing and enjoying the Christmas holiday.\u00a0 As part of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[80,26,94,103,83,84,100,101,102,16,14],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-trump","tag-alt-right","tag-american-exceptionalism","tag-christmas","tag-deplorables","tag-family","tag-holidays","tag-interviews","tag-new-media","tag-stefan-molyneux","tag-trump","tag-vox-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.4 - 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