Thanks to Kanye, Groupthink Is BrokenReal Clear Politics, Apr 27, 2018, Adriana Cohen
A cultural shift is happening before our very eyes. Entertainment royalty and prominent blacks in American society, long beholden to the Democrat Party, had a rare breakout moment this week, setting the social media stratosphere ablaze.
Kayne West, the uber-famous rapper, unleashed this grenade on his 28 million Twitter followers on Wednesday: "Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed." ...
What did change this week is that someone had the courage to break from the iron grip of conformist thinking and challenge liberal orthodoxy.
This is a tectonic shift on several fronts, the first being that a famous black rapper challenged progressive policies of a black former president that have failed the black community. The second, and perhaps more significant political and cultural shift, is that a celebrity, long used by the Democrat Party to keep rich establishment folks in power, broke from groupthink and dared to think for himself. And he had the courage to express his views on social media, along with a photo of himself wearing a Make America Great Again hat, to his massive following.
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