Bob,
It has been several years since I went round and round with Indy, so the details aren't as clear as I would like.
But It went something like this, he is from the upper Mid-West (rust belt) worked for .gov. started a business that contracted with .gov.
Made a ton of money, lead an insulated privileged life , isolated from the concerns of the average working man.
Loves to virtue signal, poo poo's the concerns of average folks.........
Yet , his part of the country (rust belt) has decayed before his very eyes and it's not his concern because he is wealthy.
The type of boomer most like to hate these days. He got his and to hell with everyone else... buncha kook conspiracy theorist!
I will take your word on that, you have always seemed straight up.......I know you dont back down from uneasy questions, so can you address the two I asked of you?....bob
Bob,
As for the how do we fight back, you are correct it starts at the local level, but it needs to go beyond that.
We need to speak out against the narrative the left is creating, followers and weak minded individuals fall for the talking points, because they are uninformed they parrot the narrative, many like to virtue signal with the lefts talking points.
If we challenge friends and family that's a start, or we could use social media.
For example what i post here will reach 100 times as many people or more than I have contact with at any given time.
Call out the idiotic ideas for what they are! Shut down the virtue signaling! Make them feel foolish for being the fools they are!
Now as for Jim, I can't really speak for him.
I can speak to what appears to be a double standard on my part for not calling him out.
I am taking in the bigger picture with Jim for context. He is on the right side of the issue 99% of the time.
My guess would be he was simply provoking thought, he has a cryptic and witty way of expressing his opinions. He regularly uses absurdity to display absurdity.
Taking Jim at face value is a mistake, he has contemplated these issue much more deeply than most individuals.
Indy on the other hand is a very stereotypical entitled boomer that made money off of the system, a sheep of a different sort.