People increasingly no longer “turn on the TV” or “watch cable”, they “stream” on their “device”. Which makes big-ticket streaming services like Netflix the leading cultural and even political arbiters of our era, writes Itxu Díaz in The European Conservative. And the uniformly woke and relentlessly left-wing torrent gushing forth to Netflix’s hundreds of millions of adherents, warns Díaz, is brainwashing a generation of young viewers with a deranged anti-Western worldview.
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Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
