Our colleague over at PJ Media, Christopher Skeet, had a great piece right here that goes over the Taylor Swift phenomenon but not with her recent overtaking of all things NFL, but in politics.

From Skeets' piece:

What sets Gen Z apart is that (with significant exceptions, of course) they don’t appear to be maturing past this phase in any aspect of their lives. They’re less likely to be employed than their counterparts in previous generations. Scores on the ACT are the lowest in over thirty years. They are more isolated, more depressed, and more obese. Managers report that many Gen Z employees lack the initiative, emotional maturity, and social skills needed to perform basic work. Their understanding of American history and basic economics is almost as non-existent as is their patriotism.

And they think you are what’s wrong with America.

And Taylor Swift just got 35,000 more of them to vote against the American experiment.

And if she snapped her fingers, she’d get another 35,000 to do so.

Whatever we’re doing to try to stop the ever-encroaching leftward lurch into every corner of our private lives has been largely ineffective in moving the cultural needle in our direction. What I call the Taylor Swift Problem is indicative of long-term cultural rot, compounded by our public schools’ concerted and sustained efforts to dumb down our students to the point that “public education” should be reclassified as unionized child abuse.

This is an issue that conservatives have pretty much given up on since the 50s or 60s when the left stormed Hollywood. Sure some of the biggest stars at the time John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Ronald Reagan were more conservative in nature but the culture war which had started decades before crept into Hollywood there has never been a pushback for the war in taking back any ground.

Now, I know who Taylor Swift is, I know that she has a loyal zombie-like following of fans who call themselves Swifties and I understand that she has a zen-like grasp of how social media interacts with the culture and the consumers of it today. If I were on the show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire and one of the questions was to pick a Taylor Swift song I would probably have to use all three of my lifelines to try to figure it out, yet I recognize her impact which is better than ignoring it.

I would love to tell you exactly why I don't listen to her but the few times that I've been exposed to her music I'm pretty sure it could have been done by artificial intelligence.

This means I don't think it has a soul, but, I'm not exactly sure being I have never listened to a full Swift song.

Swift's impact on how this nation thinks is being shown in the largest sports spectacle each week in the NFL as my colleague Jerry Wilson details in his piece "RedState Sports Report, Brought to You by Taylor Swift."

From his article

One thing NBC did pay attention to was the television ratings. As a press release trumpeted, NBC was handsomely rewarded for its efforts.

The Kansas City Chiefs’ down-to-the-wire 23-20 victory over the New York Jets last night on NBC and Peacock averaged approximately 27.0 million viewers – ranking as the most-watched Sunday show since Super Bowl LVII on FOX in February.

At least during the Super Bowl you can skip the crappy halftime show and get back to football afterwards. The way it sounds that NBC did this was to sprinkle Taylor all over the broadcast and allow Chris Collinsworth to point out his detailed thoughts on whether Taylor was enjoying the game. I have to admit I did not watch the Sunday Night game personally but did watch the Sunday Night Football # on X ( the platform formally known as Twitter) and was beyond amused with the video clips and comments much more that way.

So here is the part of the article where I am supposed to offer some sort of semi-clear-cut solution on how and what to do about this. This is where I'm probably a little bit different than most commentators. 

While I understand the problem and I have some knowledge and do enjoy reading other people on it that have a much better grasp on it.

I have no clue what to do and I hate saying that.

I was greatly influenced by Andrew Breitbart who famously defined The Breitbart Doctrine which is the idea that "politics is downstream from culture" and that to change politics one must first change culture.

So while I have been busy for the past six or so years I suck at not knowing more and putting into action how to combat this and I wish Andrew were here today to add to this fight.

Yet I have confidence that with this discussion that both Christopher and Jerry are having on these sites hopefully, some momentum will build and not make a change today but for later this year or next. Laying the groundwork for getting the youngsters to at least do some critical thinking before just being led by a social media sensation would help the country long term.

Hopefully, I'm right.

Make sure to click on the links above provided to my colleague's articles and as always make sure to check out my BIO right over here or below and let me know what you think whether you agree or disagree or might be somewhere in the middle.