For Mulligan, purpose and appreciation in life was never about accumulating wealth and power. It was always about work ethic, dignity, and aspiration.
One of the most persistent themes in my conversations with voters across the country, no matter who they are voting for, has been this outside pressure from our culture to shed the past and how it formed who we are as people because it has been rendered unacceptable in today’s society. The cultural curators in our country, the entities who hold the power and influence in everything we do from how we consume our news, watch our sports and movies, and use our phones, long ago shed any association with people who live and work and pray outside of the super ZIP codes of wealth and power. The cultural elites rarely have anyone in their boardrooms, C-suites, newsrooms, or bureaucracies who went to a state school or sit in a pew every Sunday or own a gun or grew up in a community with a mix of social-economic experiences.
If you don’t know anyone like that, how do you sell them soap or craft a tweet or market to them or entertain them if you don’t know them? You can't.
But because they have the power in how you use technology, interact with institutions, view media, and watch sports and movies, they also have the power to move culture in their direction, often shaming voters into believing you are their friend, you are part of their tribe when you think, and wear, and use words and phrases the way they want you to.
In short, they won’t tell you anymore that you are not needed or wanted if you just come to their side.
Except, that is not true. You won’t be accepted. You will be used: used for your money and your vote. Many of us willingly give that to them so we can be accepted into their world rather than to be part of our own communities.
What's old, and who, can be made new again - Washington Examiner
HILLSDALE, Michigan — Sometimes, lessons we are trying desperately to unravel as to where we are as a country and a culture are right in front of us. But we’ve been so distracted by all of the convenience and chaos technology has provided to us in our lives, we’ve missed what we’ve always...
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