Timothy Birdnow

Yesterday I learned that ABC cancelled "Last Man Standing" , the Tim Allen sitcom and was going to post a few thoughts. Daniel Joh Sobieski beat me to it at American Thinker.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/05/emlast_man_standingem_falls_to_trump_derangement_syndrome.html

The show is largely a rehash of Allen's "Home Improvement" but instead of having three boys he has three girls. The show - about the COO of a sporting goods store in Colorado - has been a big hit with blue collar America (even though Allen's Mike Baxter character is clearly quite well-to-do) because of the values he espouses. Allen chose to make the show openly political in a way; he is shown to be a conservative, gun toting meat eating American and he often makes the conservative case. Frankly, Allen has always rather watered down that case and also provided liberal counterpoints to squeek past the network censors. But modern entertainment media, like the fake news outlets, will tolerate no competition and, despite being the third rated scripted show on ABC, has been cancelled.

This proves unequivocally that the major networks disdain the public and have an agenda they want to push.

And don't expect anyone else to pick up the highly rated show. The Left has taken over entertainment as surely as they have academia and the news outlets. It is part of their propoganda machine. And an insidious part it is, too, because by using things like sitcoms they can get at underlying attitudes and twist them as they please. It's not even always in the plot line or dialogue even; often in what happens in the background is more effective at changing public thinking.

Even Last Man Standing fell prey to this. In one episode the youngest daughter Eve had to reject a pass made at her by her best female friend. It was not portrayed as wrong or even disturbing, but just as a "I don't get involved with friends" sort of thing. This is the only openly conservative show outside of Fox News of any sort. Don't even get me started on the liberalism in "Modern Family" which aces out LMS in the ratings...

The Left has always understood the need to control the dissemination of information and of symboolism. They now have complete control of all major outlets, from the arts to even the sciences, which have become politicized and are now more Medieval preachers than objective seekers after truth.

The killing of Allen's show illustrates the need for conservative outlets in other areas. We need to create a conservative artistic network, something featuring sitcoms that restore the traditional views. We need cultural conservatism. The Left has always been able to portray their idiotic and childish views as hip and cool, and we need outlets to do the same.

Yesterday Rush Limbaugh pointed out on his radio program that the things that were "pioneered" by the Daily Show were what he himself pioneered in his own television program years prior. He's right. Rush was clearly the architect of the Daily Show style, which is so appealing to the youths of America. But Rush could never get real television access; despite high ratings his t.v. show would air whenever local stations saw fit - usually at 3 a.m. or other times designed to kill it. We need a network that will run a show like that in prime time.

We need conservative artists. We need conservative songwriters. We need conservative philosophers and writers. And there are plenty of such, only they usually give up because they cannot find an outlet for their talents.

If we had that we would win. America is like a river and the Progressive left has constructed a series of dams, levees, and floodwalls to channel that river in an artificial flow. It must be endlessly refreshed by the Left. Whenever there is a breach the progressive engineers scurry about to sandbag the affected area, and eventually force the river back into the artificial channel. It is not natural, though, and America's thinking will return to her traditional ways if we can breach those bulworks at strategic points. That's all we must do; breach them. Get the old time ideas out there and watch as the public turns away from the Potemkin Village that is Liberalism. But it must first be heard by the public. The Left knows that, which is why they have now killed off Allen's show. See, they were content to allow a spillway or two to take the pressure off, but they cannot allow the spillway to override their constructs.

We can win this war but we have to first fight it. For far too long there has been no chance of a fair fight because we allowed the Left to use our own decencies against us. The time has come to counter-attack.

Maybe Allen's appropriately named "Last Man Standing" will wind up being just that!

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