For some reason, Tucker Carlson is releasing clips on YouTube Shorts. It’s unclear what purpose this is meant to serve. The videos are clearly unscripted (not fake “unscripted,” but actually unscripted), and the message he is presenting is something very different than what we’re used to on his scripted show.
In the most recent clip, Carlson claims that he is happy to be ruled over by women in sexy boots. In fact, the argument seems to be that he is only opposed to feminism if the women are not dressed in a sexy manner.
It would be difficult or impossible to dissect what this means. It appears to be both mindless and inane. Regardless of the intention, what it clearly proves is the problem we talk about often on this website: when a person’s value system is not rooted in something strong, the logical output they produce is not strong, and is ultimately useless.
There are many different possible strong value systems. I do not mean to say that Christianity is the only possible one. Clearly, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, and even communist systems have proved a basis for a society.
My argument in criticizing the right is two-fold:
- They do not have any value system at all, and
- Christianity is the traditional value system of the West and therefore the one best suited for our society
People sometimes criticize “pragmatic” arguments for Christianity, saying the only reason you should believe in it is because it’s true, and not because it creates a healthy society. The criticism is fair enough on the individual level, but as a matter of empirical fact, we also know that Christianity is the system most suited for the West in a practical sense.
In a political discussion, what works is very relevant. If people like Carlson and the rest of the pundit class want to replace Christianity with a new value system as a basis of the new morality and image of man they are presenting, they need to explain themselves.
Right now, they are saying:
- Gays are good, gay marriage is good, trannies are okay too, but child trannies is going too far
- White people becoming a minority in America due to mass immigration is good, it’s just going too fast
- Feminism is good, it’s just gone too far (and also, it should be sexy)
- Jews are good people, or at least can be, despite their explicit, aggressive, and malicious rejection of Christ
- Maybe some forms of abortion are okay
Obviously, none of this is compatible with Christianity, and because these things are not in-line with Christianity, they were not previously a part of what we typically considered “American conservatism,” which was a politicized version of Christian values.
Therefore, these people saying these things, including Carlson and the rest of the pundit class, are clearly functioning on some alternative system of thought upon which they are basing these confounding new moral declarations. Thus far, this system has not been explicated, meaning that they are using a secret value system upon which to base their positions.
The only alternative to a secret value system is that they have no value system at all, and are just basing these new positions on absolutely nothing. That would actually be much worse.
The bottom line is: nothing good is going to come from these people. Tucker Carlson as the ultimate example had a prime time show for 6 years, and for most of that period, it was the single most popular news broadcast on television. Did the country get better in that time? Do you think we live in a better country in 2023 than we lived in in 2017?
These new conservatives have failed, miserably. We need a new way of thinking. We need to demand explicit Christian values from our leaders, both in the media and in the government. People who refuse to adhere to this should be berated and attacked as dangerous morons trying to destroy America with fundamentally useless and harmful anti-Christ gibberish.
Bobby Fischer on women: pic.twitter.com/3IUsWmCvGF
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