We are the insurgency because: Despite our percentage of representation in living rooms the enemy owns the corporate boardrooms, television, music, print media, traditional publishing, public education, academia, the military, intelligence community, prosecutors offices, scientific journals, sports, financial institutions, election boards, Congress, the presidency, social media.
Name one sector of American social, economic, information, political, or cultural relevance on a national level we can operate unencumbered. I'll wait.
A number of social media outlets have been gaining ground and traction. I'm sure you've heard of Parler, MeWe, Gab. Rumble is the new home for many podcasters, including Dinesh D'Souza and Bill Whittle. There is no doubt that the leftists have overrun the "traditional" sources of information - no argument from me about that. They've been at it since the Sixties and they've got a massive head start, but that doesn't mean conservatism is completely shut out of everything. Saying otherwise is just silly.
I can't stand 99.537% of country music, but I'm willing to avoid offending a potential ally.
That makes two of us. Let's pat each other on the back.
The media is telling them that you reject them and will never accept them. Don't prove the media to be right, don't do their job for them; do the opposite.
Not sure where you get this. All I said, back in the beginning of this conversation, is they have to be willing to listen. That speaks nothing for "our" side, though I shouldn't have to state the obvious -- that in order for people to talk, BOTH sides have to listen.
The problem with that is, leftists don't want to listen. They don't want to discuss matters of mutual interest. I've run into this with my own family -- and perhaps more than most on this forum, I am surrounded by leftists. I know what I'm talking about.
You're grouping all people together.
Nonsense. I'm making a clear distinction between those hooligans, rioters, leftists, and common thugs and the mayhem they're causing versus more reasonable and approachable people of all ages, at all levels. Making nice with aforesaid hooligans doesn't work. I challenge you to go to a BLM "mostly peaceful" protest and link up with a guy with a can of soup in his hand. Let me know how that turns out.
There's a reason Trump won more minority support of any Republican prior to the civil rights era: despite the communists best efforts to corral people into groups, Trump approached them on issues of individual importance.
That's true, and there's also the aspect that Latinos, by and large, think conservatively. They're big on family, church, and traditional values. Trump rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, but despite the media (who aren't infallible), that particular group saw through the lies. Ditto for many black Americans. Unemployment down, working, being able to provide for family in a much better way. It was a shame that Barry couldn't do any of that.
If school vouchers enjoy plurality support among inner city parents, why aren't we championing that? If business licensing is causing economic stagnation in the inner city because people can't afford to work for themselves, why aren't we demanding that? Because we don't live in inner cities.
Your question is rhetorical, so I'll refrain from answering except to say that the teacher's unions are preventing school vouchers from reaching critical mass. And the leftist bent that is academia to begin with.
Would it kill us to champion policies that are conservatively sound, but don't impact us directly? Especially if it undercuts the (hopefully) erroneous portrayal of conservatives as uncaring about the fate of the urban poor?
Such as? I think most conservatives would be the first to champion ALL people to be the very best they can be, to succeed at whatever they choose to do. That that's the very essence of freedom -- the freedom to excel and the freedom to fail, if that is what it takes to ultimately succeed.
You talk as if you are still in charge of the government, or can vote your way back in.
You aren't and you can't.
I wasn't in charge of much of anything except a small group of brass players and later, in my second career, an even smaller group of civilians. Never had an overwhelming desire to command much of anything, and still don't. Well, except my lawn mower.
They stole the government in broad daylight and they told us to go **** ourselves with a grin on their faces. The cops are ordered to stand down during riots but murdered Ashli Babbitt with the blessing of the junta. The military is undergoing a purge. Wray refuses to answer GOP Congressmen on the financial structure of ANTIFA. The CIA is actively - illegally - pursuing domestic political dissidents.
Where is this power to stop the riots?
The purge began under Barry's reign of terror. It was temporarily halted during Trump's presidency, but since we're now having Obama 3.0, it's back on again. It's disgusting, based on what I've read. Austin is also complicit in killing the military.
The power to stop the riots will come from the populace (outside of Blueville, that is) when the rioters leave Blueville and come to flyover country. That hasn't happened yet. I don't know of any red-blooded American who won't defend his property and his family, along with combining forces with neighbors in defending those neighborhoods.
Our ability to act will come from the fact that a significant number - not all, but a significant number - of those sympathetic to the claims (read: propaganda) of the rioters will see nothing has changed even though the stodgy white conservatives are gone. Oh, sure, the leaders moved out into big mansions, but their streets are still filthy and dangerous.
What will they do?
I think the leftists have set up camp in Blueville for the simple reason that there is no resistance. There is no insurgency. There is no defense. So far, I don't see antifa and BLM ripping up neighborhoods in, say, Franklin, TN. Or Erie, PA. So I'm not quite as optimistic about what they'll do. If they haven't seen that nothing has changed (except more graffiti, more damage, more wreckage, more mayhem) by now, I'm not sure those living in Portland are capable of it. Pockets of sanity, maybe.