The Crisis Behind Us Liberal Beliefs

However, many groups claim that political correctness in society is justified in its efforts to sanitize offensive material created though years of oppressing minorities. What was originally a noble idea, to remove blatant words of offensive meaning, has turned into an “over the top” effort to rid any words of possible controversy. We are regulating our ways of plain speaking, freedom of choice, and freedom of speech. Laws of restrictions on slander and public decency should be decided on the common law methodology and not by the interests of the liberal “mob”. If plain speaking is not allowed, clear thinking is

Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world decided in early January to shut down 154 across the United States. The store closures mean a lot to the towns that are losing them, in some of the communities, Wal-Mart was the only grocery store and pharmacy. Some of these closures in rural areas and areas without another grocery food store close by have created new food deserts. These food deserts cause enormous problems for residents living on low income without means of automotive transportation to get their food.

Media corporations have been merging into fewer (and larger) entities which are better able to control the flow of information to the public. Because of their size and power, they can prevent unfavorable coverage of their activities in the media outlets they own. In 1983, 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the U.S. In 1992, fewer than two dozen of these corporations owned and operated 90% of the mass media; controlling almost all of America's newspapers, magazines, TV and radio stations, books, records, movies, videos, wire services and photo agencies. Now only 5 huge corporations - Time Warner, Disney, Murdoch's News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS) - now control most of the media industry in the U.S. General Electric's NBC is a close sixth. Democracy can't exist without an informed public. We rely on unbiased news from independent

In 2008, the housing market crashed, businesses were failing, and people were losing their jobs. This is how Barack Obama started off his presidency. Already, fingers were being pointed and cries were maybe. This would be the start off to Obama’s presidency. His creation of the Stimulus Package created a lot of criticism, but at the end of the day, it fixed the economy. Now Obama is ending his presidency with a flourishing economy and GDP Growth. Even if the Stimulus Package was one of the most criticized plans in his presidency, it did exactly what it was meant for, which was to fix the economy and create growth.

Trudging through the mountains of facts, studies, and opinions relevant to social and political issues creates a daunting task for political strategists, leaving them to decide what information is relevant and essential for the voting public to know, in order to rally the voters to support a certain candidate. However, these mountains of facts and opinions can turn off voters, and scare away many potential supporters, forcing political strategists to also engage the emotional lives of the populace: enter the role of cultural narratives- tales of adventure, sacrifice, defeat, and victory grabbing hold of the emotional lives of the audience, and as George Lakoff points out, “…politics is about the narratives of our culture and our

One may think that the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a gross representation of the future, but perhaps our society isn’t that much different. In his foreword to the novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned this statement when he wrote: "To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda...." Thus, through hypnopaedic teaching (brainwashing), mandatory attendance to community gatherings, and the use of drugs to control emotions, Huxley bitterly satirized the society in which we live.

America is at the brink of becoming a third world country and anyone can see how it is through the American economy. Many Americans have low income jobs or are unemployed, and businesses are leaving the U.S. to continue their operations overseas (Roberts). The economy is a main foundation of America and if it is not doing well then the country as a whole is prosperous.

Looking at the United States in 1965, it would seem that the future of the liberal consensus was well entrenched. The anti-war movement was in full swing, civil rights were moving forward, and Johnson's Great Society was working to alleviate the plight of the poor in America. Yet, by 1968 the liberal consensus had fallen apart, which led to the triumph of conservatism with the election of President Reagan in 1980. The question must be posed, how in the course of 15 years did liberal consensus fall apart and conservatism rise to the forefront? What were the decisive factors that caused the fracturing of what seemed to be such a powerful political force? In looking at the period from 1968 to the

Our economy has gone down hill since Barack Obama stepped into office in the year of 2008. Our newly elected president, Donald J. Trump, has shown through his economic plan that he will bring back jobs and cut taxes drastically for everyone. In all, these major changes towards our economy will make America great

The five major conglomerates that control the US media are Time Warner, Disney, Murdochs’ News Corporation, Bertelsmann of Germany, and Viacom (formerly CBS). They dominate most of the newspapers, magazines, books, radio and TV stations, movie studios, and much of the internet news content of the US. After the Second World War, three out of four of US newspapers were individually owned. The media-control has reduced ever since due to mergers, acquisitions, and other processes. By the year 1983, about 50 corporations controlled 90 percent of US media. Contrary to this, today five conglomerates control 90 percent of what most Americans read, watch, and listen to.

(2016, Jan 16). “Wal-Mart makes rare retreat on home turf; closing of 269 stores includes all 102 U.S. Wal-Mart express stores, affects 16,000 jobs.” Wall Street Journal (Online) Retrieved from http://libsrv.wku.edu:2048/login?url=https://search-proquest-com.libsrv.wku.edu/docview/1757122728?accountid=15150 In Wal-Mart makes rare retreat on home turf; closing of 269 stores includes all 102 U.S. Wal-Mart express stores, affects 16,000 jobs Nassauer tells how Wal-mart is losing ground. The article shows how even a company as big as Wal-Mart has been affected by the retail apocalypse.

Ideological social control is the attempt to manipulate consciousness of citizens so that they accept the ruling ideology and refuse to be moved by competing ideologies. The agents of ideological social control consists of family, education, religion, sport, media, and government. All of these agents of ideological social control controls citizens unconsciously, without them knowing, by controlling them and to refuse to think differently because they grew up and have conformed to these ways. Firstly, family is effective in controlling children’s behavior. The responsibility of parents is to teach their child attitudes, values, and behavior

I believe the president should take credit for the status of the economy. Most analysts believe Obama’s recovery is the result of an improved economy. The one subject that is very important to U.S citizens. The economic recovery has taken a few years, but finally, average workers are beginning to put the Great Recession behind them. The unemployment rate is low while Federal deficits are down.

As exemplified by Newspeak in George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four: destructive ideology is used not to convey information but to provide a truth-indifferent rationale for institutional policies and practices. Such obfuscation has been a government staple, not just in the former Soviet Union but in the West as well, where governments have misrepresented their coercive activities as fending off "bandits" earlier in the twentieth century and "terrorists" more recently. What matters for my purposes is that one might similarly appeal to religious beliefs to justify pursuing a goal that is not obviously religious at all.(1)

Explaining millennial liberal psychology contains the process whereby people internalise ideas, which produce actions that lead to consequences based on belief, leading to horrors typically viewed daily throughout western society.