{"id":1507407,"date":"2022-06-08T09:34:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507407"},"modified":"2022-06-08T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T13:34:24","slug":"is-ignoring-the-other-side-a-winning-strategy-for-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-ignoring-the-other-side-a-winning-strategy-for-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ignoring The Other Side A Winning Strategy For The Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-ignoring-the-other-side-a-winning-strategy-for-the-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1507407&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>This week, my company, The Daily Wire, premiered a blockbuster new documentary starring Matt Walsh. Titled \u201cWhat Is A Woman?,\u201d the documentary investigates radical gender theory and its peculiar hold on the elites in our society \u2013 and how the insane proposition that men can become women and vice versa has become so well-accepted that even normal Americans now live in fear of questioning it. The film has been the single largest success in the history of the Daily Wire; hundreds of thousands of Americans have subscribed to view it. Yet RottenTomatoes, the review aggregator for film and television, has not a single traditional review of the film.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because, according to the legacy and entertainment media, the film doesn\u2019t exist. When the Daily Wire press team sent out invitations to reviewers to watch the film \u2013 knowing, of course, that the vast majority of reviewers are Left-leaning, and would undoubtedly pan the film \u2013 reviewers began responding with insults and declarations of pre-emptive hatred. \u201cHard pass,\u201d wrote one. \u201cUnsubscribe,\u201d wrote another. \u201cLose my email. Forget my name.\u201d A third reviewer, this one a member of Galeca: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, wrote, \u201cHard f***ing pass. I won\u2019t give that transphobic bigot a platform on my site. Never email me again!\u201d Thus, the current Rotten Tomatoes audience score for the film is 96 percent; the reviewer score remains empty.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewers\u2019 willingness to pretend that there is no controversy with regard to gender and sex perfectly reflects the Left\u2019s believes about transgender ideology more broadly. One gender reassignment surgeon \u2013 a medical surgeon who performs body mutilating surgeries on minors \u2013 told Walsh that nobody believed in traditional ideas about biological sex anymore; only \u201cdinosaurs\u201d would believe such an antiquated notion.<\/p>\n<p>Such denial of the mere existence of a countervailing argument is a common feature of the Left these days. The idea is that by pretending opposition to bizarre ideas doesn\u2019t exist, you can mainstream those bizarre ideas. Thus, \u201ceveryone believes\u201d that climate change is not merely a byproduct of human activity, but that it threatens life on earth; to deny the latter proposition is tantamount to Holocaust denial. \u201cEveryone believes\u201d that America is systemically racist; to do otherwise is to mark yourself as a bigot.<\/p>\n<p>But what if everybody doesn\u2019t believe such propositions? What if there are millions of Americans \u2013 the majority of Americans, in fact \u2013 who believe precisely the opposite? Then the only option is to reinforce denial with censorship. Which is why former Barack Obama senior advisor Dan Pfeiffer went on the air at MSNBC to declare the very popularity of conservative viewpoints a threat to democracy. \u201cRight wing content,\u201d Pfeiffer observed, \u201cdwarfs progressive content [on Facebook]. It dwarfs mainstream media content, which actually should be the part that scares us the most, that Ben Shapiro\u2019s Daily Wire has more followers and engagement, many times more than The New York Times or CNN\u2026That is a problem for democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democracy, you see, simply means the Approved View. If the Approved View is somehow unpopular, that must be a problem of propaganda, which is in turn a problem for democracy. The only solution is to ban such propaganda, thus leaving a monopoly on behalf of the Approved View. If the echo chamber isn\u2019t strong enough to drown out the outsiders, simply silence those outside the chamber, then declare democracy safe.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s only one problem: it won\u2019t work. Democrats have siloed themselves into an increasingly progressive universe, one in which the most controversial imaginable propositions are utterly uncontroversial. In this universe, the other side doesn\u2019t exist. Unfortunately for the Left, the other side does exist. And they vote. And come November 2022, the ostrich strategy of the Democratic Party and its media apparatchiks is likely to bear devastating electoral fruit.<\/p>\n<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, my company, The Daily Wire, premiered a blockbuster new documentary starring Matt Walsh. 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