[Newfie]

A while ago I personally redefined PC to POPULAR CLIQUE. That seemed to be a more fitting description of what we meant when we said ”PC.” It reminds me so much of Jr High when we are sooo hyped attuned to one another’s position in the peecking order.

Then today Toe Cutter referred to the Overton Window, a phrase I was not familiar with. So I looked it up on Wiki. It seems my redefinition of PC to Popular Clique was along the same lines. What is PC is what is allowed within the culture without being unduly criticized or ostracized.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time.[1] It is also known as the window of discourse. The term is named after Joseph P. Overton, who stated that an idea's political viability depends mainly on whether it falls within this range, rather than on politicians' individual preferences.[2][3] According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time.

[Ibon]

Very interesting. The way the range of acceptable opinion is manipulated is 100% engineered to keep the increasingly disenfranchised members of society on opposite sides of the political divide. It makes it more clear why we do not see the disenfranchised from rural Red states joining forces with the disenfranchised urban minorities to push for reform for mutual benefit.

Public health care, living wages, fair taxation, improved education, tariffs to protect domestic industries, etc. etc.

We have this dumbed down tribal polarization that is all about identity politics, culture wars, racism, etc. etc. to keep all the disenfranchised distracted so that the above mentioned reforms stay out of the range of acceptable opinion or they become demonized which is the same thing. Public health care option becomes socialism or taking away your freedom of choice or death panels etc etc.

I still come back to this again and again, this tribalism is fabricated to keep the privileged in the position to game the system.

The hemorrhaging of the middle class, the wage disparity, loss of standard of living, these gross inequities maintain themselves by engineering the range of acceptable opinions.

Something has to break through this fabricated divide, a movement that will unite the disenfranchised and move toward real meaningful reform.

You know when it is close to the breaking point when the methods to keep the divide in place become more draconian, amping up the racism, sending federal troops into the cities to intimidate, becoming more of a police state, the agitation growing, protests on the rise. etc. etc.

WE are at the very beginning of social unrest. This fabricated tribalism and the range of acceptable opinions is going to break down as social unrest busts it wide open.

[asg70]

"When one goes outside those limits then the sophomorish ridicule and condemnation begins."

That's a broad generalization. In most cases we're talking about people pushing extreme ideology and it's ridiculed and condemned for a very good reason. Of course, you're not gonna like this if you subscribe to this ideology, but hey, there are pros and cons to society being guided by joe sixpack.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'A') while ago I personally redefined PC to POPULAR CLIQUE. That seemed to be a more fitting description of what we meant when we said ”PC.” It reminds me so much of Jr High when we are sooo hyped attuned to one another’s position in the peecking order.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', '
')So how does the herd decide which way to point? I am thinking that the MSM, Fox included, is where these limits are defined, it’s how we are told what is and is not acceptable, how broad the limits of discourse.

[Newfie]

Political Influencers

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')As the 2020 presidential race continues, some candidates are turning to social media influencers to spread their messages and garner support for their campaigns. It was reported that former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg recently partnered with popular Instagram accounts to create meme content for promoting his candidacy, called the Meme 2020 project.

The appeal of influencer marketing is the same for politicians as it is for commercial brands: It allows them to reach a younger audience that is increasingly resistant to traditional advertising tactics.