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There is a real likelihood that the Republicans will win a big victory this fall.

However, defeating the Democrats because of their terrible performance will not be powerful or lasting. Republicans must defeat the Democrats because their values are wrong, and their policies simply cant work.

Defeating the Democrats on a strictly performance-based campaign allows the next cycle of Democrats to come along and claim the ideas and policies were right, but the personalities were incompetent.

This has happened before.

President Lyndon B. Johnsons Great Society was a failure. The next round of Democrats repudiated it, and in a few years, they nominated George McGovern, who was even further to the left.

President Jimmy Carters failure in 1980 taught Democrats nothing. Four years later, Walter Mondale ran promising to raise taxes.

President Barack Obamas divisive, radical policies set the stage for Donald Trumps election in reaction. Then Biden came along as Obamas vice president and moved even further to the left toward even more destructive and radical policies.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher taught us that first you win the argument, and then you win the vote.

She set out in 1975 to win the argument that socialism was immoral, was impossible in the real world and produced terrible results. She won that argument so decisively that no openly left-wing Labour leader has been elected prime minister in 40 years.

Like Thatcher, Republicans must develop a campaign that wins the argument about core values and philosophies. The Democrats performance failures must be linked to their policy and values failures. As President Ronald Reagan said, the trouble with our Liberal friends is not that theyre ignorant; its just that they know so much that isnt so.

On the performance front, the opportunity is going to be enormous to defeat the Democrats as incompetent (which is not the same as being wrong).

President Biden continues to decline cognitively and is more and more embarrassing. The latest presidential job approval poll was at 33 percent approval, which is a dangerous warning sign for Democrat prospects this fall.

Jill Bidens Taco Democrats gaffe may be a sign she is joining her husband in not being able to remember what she should be saying.

Record high gasoline prices, rising food prices, and rising murder and crime rates are affecting every American. The borders are open and insecure (with no tests for COVID-19 or criminal records). Meanwhile, people in the country illegally are being given free cell phones and flown around America for free. Schools teach 7-year-old children that they are guilty of white privilege and ask third graders to discuss sexual orientation. At the same time, the schools are failing to teach reading, writing or arithmetic. The failures are seemingly endless and compounding.

Then, there is potentially the greatest corruption crisis ever to envelop a White House. No reasonable person can doubt that President Biden has regularly and routinely lied about Hunter Bidens corruption (and the presidents knowledge of it). Evidence continues to come out about just how sick Hunters behavior has been and how impossible it was for President Biden not to know about it.

The recent revelation that the American Strategic Oil Reserve sent a million barrels of oil to a Chinese oil firm Hunter Biden has business ties with is just one more example of how blatantly and arrogantly corrupt the Biden administration is.

So, there will be plenty of performance failures on which to focus. But the failures must be tied to the underlying truth: The philosophy and values at the heart of Big Government socialism simply can never work.

These terrible outcomes are not the result of randomly incompetent behavior. They are the natural indeed the inevitable results of unworkable values and unrealistic, destructive models.

I wrote my new book, Defeating Big Government Socialism: Saving Americas Future, because defeating the philosophy and not just repudiating the current performance is so important.

Sean Hannity said this is the most important book Ive written in the more than 30 years we have known one another.

In fact, Mr. Hannity thought Defeating Big Government Socialism was so important, that he agreed to tape an entire podcast discussing it.

We are at a crucial decision point in our nations history. As Americans, we can choose the destructive, failed values and policies of Big Government socialism. Or we can choose to restore the America that works with the values and policies which made us the strongest, freest, most prosperous county on Earth.

Which path will you choose?

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For ordinary people, seeing is believing but for intellectuals believing is seeing

There are two kinds of people in the world: normal human beings and intellectuals. The critical difference between the two is that while for normal people seeing is believing, for intellectuals it is the other way around. This difference makes intellectuals different from ordinary people.

It is palpable at any gathering of

intellectuals, whether it is a Not-In-My-Name protest or a meeting to denounce the Narendra Modi government over some issue or another. The look, the feel, the atmosphericseverything about an

intellectuals meet is surreal. Having

attended quite a few such meetings in recent times, I can make a few observations about them.

First the look. Normal people wear, or want to wear, good clothes. Men go for Raymond, Reid & Taylor, J. Hamstead, Arrow, Louise Phillippe, Van Huesen; women love Nalli, Satyapaul, Manish Malhotra. Intellectuals, however, prefer khadi and Fabindia. The duller the color, the coarser the fabric, the more depressing the look, the better.

When a normal couple is alone, they make love; when an intellectual couple is alone, they discuss sexual politics.

When normal people attend a marriage party, they rejoice in good tidings. Intellectuals, on the contrary, dont approve of any marriage unless both partners are of the same sex. The normal marriage they view with suspicion, often as a fodder for the perpetuation of patriarchy and hetero-normativity.

If you ask normal people, who are their favorite film actors and actresses, they would say Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar, Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Shah Rukh Khan, Madhubala, Suraiya, Hema Malini, Madhuri Dixit, Kangana Ranaut, and so on. If you ask an intellectual the same question, the answer would be Balraj Sahni, Smita Patil, et al.

Now Sahni and Patil were great actors, but I wonder what kind of man would

like to take his girlfriend to watch Do Bigha Zameen.

This brings us to the question: What makes intellectuals so different? A quick Google search will give you delectable quotes: an intellectual is a person whos found one thing thats more interesting than sex (Aldous Huxley); an intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows (Dwight D. Eisenhower).

Instead of defining intellectuals, however, I would describe them in the following way: If Karl Marx tells a normal man, Look, that dog has bitten off your ear, he would touch his own ear to find out if his ear is missing. But if Marx says the same thing to an intellectual, the latter would begin chasing the dog without bothering to check the veracity of the claim.

As mentioned earlier, the distinguishing feature of intellectuals is: believing is

seeing. We perceive phenomena and then come to some conclusion; mostly, experience guides us. But intellectuals know the Truth; they are convinced that they are divinely-ordained or dialectically-blessed to know the Truth. So what they do is just cherry-pick facts to embellish it.

In schools and colleges, they are taught that capitalism is bad and socialism and communism are good. These are the tendentious teachings of pinkish professors and theoreticians; they wrote textbooks and dominated Indian academics after Independencethe teachings which got accepted as gospel truth by our thought leaders.

Rarely, if ever, the ideas of anti-communist thinkers like Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, and Fredrick Hayek were introduced to Indian students at any level.

Intellectuals claim to be liberal in their outlook, open to all ideas, and critical of received wisdom. But, in reality, they are most illiberal when it comes to anything conflicting with their own dogmasand socialism and communism are just dogmas, and dangerous ones at that.

For them, socialism and communism are good, period. Dogmatically, they are most unwilling to discard this belief that was formed when they were in schools and colleges. Like the first love, they cherish it all their lives, notwithstanding the mountain of evidence suggesting the opposite.

The truth is that over 100 million people perished under socialist and communist regimes? For decades, intellectuals all over the world disputed that, rubbishing it as Western or bourgeois propaganda. We, the people of India, escaped the worst depredations of socialism and communismprimarily because the British had built robust institutions and also because there were a number of leaders (e.g., former prime minister Charan Singh) to resist complete descent into collectivisation and other horrors. But socialism did hurt us badly; it is still a bane, as evident from the fact that we are still a poor country, with per capita income is below $2,300.

The mendacity of Leftist intellectuals and liberals was unbounded. Paul Johnson wrote in The Modern Times: The famine of 1932, the worst in Russian history, was virtually unreported. At the height of it, the visiting biologist Julian Huxley found a level of physique and general health rather above that to be seen in England. Shaw threw his food supplies out of the train window just before crossing the Russian frontier convinced that there were no shortages in Russia

Further, Johnson wrote, Self-delusion was obviously the biggest single factor in the presentation of an unsuccessful despotism as a Utopia in the making [in Russia]. But there was also conscious

deception by men and women who thought of themselves as idealists and who, at the time, honestly believed they were serving a higher human purpose by systematic misrepresentation and lying... The Thirties was the age of the heroic lie. Saintly mendacity became its more prized virtue. Stalins tortured Russia was the prime beneficiary of this sanctified falsification.

Saintly mendacity and heroic lies are the warp and woof of the narrative that intellectuals peddle all the time. They claimed to be the champions of individual liberty and privacy, thus opposing, for instance, the Modi governments efforts to link Aadhaar with welfare measures, administrative mechanisms, and money movement. But it was many of these people, big state enthusiasts as they are, conjured up targeted welfarism; this is how Aadhaar got conceived in the first place. This happened when Sonia Gandhi ruled the country by proxy and had filled her National Advisory Council with all manner of intellectuals.

Anything wrong in the economy is because of liberalisation. In their scheme of things, what they perceive and conceptualise is knowledge; the opposite is a malevolent construct of false consciousness. Intellectuals claim that they are the champions of human rights and civil liberties; and they sometimes practically act as the over-ground activists of Maoists, the sworn enemies of not just human rights and civil liberties but all that is good and glorious in human civilization.

Intellectuals claim that they want the uplift of the poor, yet the economic philosophy that they favor, socialism, has been discredited all over the world (If the Modi regime is troubled today, it is primarily because it has been unwilling or incapable of dispensing with the vestiges of socialist structures, but thats another story). No intellectual wishes to acknowledge the reality that socialism perpetuates poverty.

Indian intellectuals are comfortable in their own cocoons and echo chambers. They are blind to and they fear to see the reality as it is. They rarely, to use Irving Krystals phraseology, get mugged by reality.

The author is Director, Public Policy Research Centre

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OTT: Perception, Use, and Business Modelshighlights viewer preferences for OTT business models and conversion rates for OTT trials

DALLAS, July 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- International research firm Parks Associates' new consumer study OTT: Perception, Use, and Business Modelsreveals 40 million US internet households trialed and subscribed to at least one OTT service in the first half of 2021. The research analyzes consumer use and perception across multiple business models, their libraries, and features.

Free trials offer consumers the opportunity to experiment with different streaming services. Nearly 50% of US internet households trialed at least one service in past six months, and 78% of those households ended up subscribing to at least one of these services. While major services such as Netflix and Disney+ have dispensed with free trials, smaller services find that trials turn into subscribers and help them stay competitive in this crowded market.

"Trials are an effective onboarding tool, with 40 million households trialing and then subscribing to at least one service in the past six months," said Eric Sorensen, Sr. Contributing Analyst, Parks Associates. "The more services consumers try, the more they are likely to subscribe to at least one. Consumers who frequently trial different services are highly engaged video consumers in general, so services need to cater to these users."

For consumers, content ultimately drives their decision to stay with a subscription. The large providers are planning significant content development expenditures in 2022 and beyond. For example, Netflix is set to spend more than $17 billion on content, while Disney+ has committed to spending $33 billion on programming and content.

"Low cost barriers drive consumers to sign up for free trials, but the content will keep them," Sorensen said. "All content creation efforts are focused on acquiring new customers and retaining those who are already subscribed by providing compelling content."

To schedule an interview with an analyst or to request specific data, please contact Rosey Sera at [emailprotected] or 972-490-1113.

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Parks Associates, a woman-owned and woman-led internationally recognized market research and consulting company, specializes in emerging technology solutions serving the consumer and small to medium business (SMB) markets. Celebrating its 35th year in 2021, Parks Associates is a partner to companies navigating the changing consumer technology landscapes through data-driven market insights, extensive consumer and industry intelligence, custom marketing services, and executive networking experiences and conferences.

The company's expertise includes home automation, control systems and security, digital media and platforms, entertainment and gaming, home networks, internet and video services, connected health and independent living solutions, mobile applications and services, support services, consumer electronics, and energy management solutions.

Each year, Parks Associates hosts industry webinars, the CONNECTIONS Conference Series, Connected Health Summit, Smart Energy Summit: Engaging the Consumer, and Future of Video: OTT, Pay TV, and Digital Media. http://www.parksassociates.com

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Scuba and Snorkeling Accessories Market: Overview

With the growing trend among youngsters to indulge in adventure activities in their leisure time, scuba is becoming one of the top choices. Earlier, scuba diving was limited for defense, research & development, and maintenance purposes. One of the main reasons, people are opting for this recreational activity is because it is safe. Also, swimming skill is not required to undertake the activity.

However, the recreational activity is safe only when done under correct supervision and with proper equipment. While going for underwater dive, individual is supposed to carry breathing tool called as scuba, which assists in underwater breathing. Scuba equipment constitutes of propulsion vehicle and cylinder, regulators, and decompression scuba diving equipment products. The scuba and snorkeling accessories makes diving safe, comfortable, and easy.

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Nowadays, scuba diving is gaining popularity not just as a recreational activity but also as physical activity. As per medical science, scuba is one of the best cardio exercises. Besides, it helps in regulation of blood pressure and in reducing the risk of strokes. Hence, people tend to opt scuba diving frequently. This, in turn, is driving the growth of scuba and snorkeling accessories market.

The upcoming report on scuba and snorkeling accessories market have detailed various facts and figures that decide the growth of the market in duration of forecast period (2019-2029). The intelligence report also provides insights about the restraining factors and strategies undertaken by key players to overcome the hindrance.

Lately, government bodies, in various countries, are raising the bar pertaining to the safety of scuba diving. The rules are valid for instructors, divers and the manufacturing companies. Moreover, the agencies providing the diving facilities must adhere to safety guidelines and should keep monitoring the condition of equipment from time to time. The equipment used during the diving should match the safety standards set by the government bodies.

The government bodies formed the rules in an effort to decrease the number of accidents occurring while scuba diving. The new rules and regulations are anticipated to favor the growth of scuba and snorkeling accessories market in the coming years.

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With growing demand of scuba and snorkeling accessories, the manufacturing companies are working to bring innovation in the products to enhance the safety. For example, few companies have integrated bluetooth communication technology with scuba equipment. This will help in the underwater communication, certainly improving the underwater safety while diving. Such innovations are likely to contribute to expansion of scuba and snorkeling accessories market.

People have started undertaking diving more like a fitness activity rather than just as a recreational activity. The shift in the trend has come due to increase in the disposable income. The shift is likely to contribute to the expansion of scuba and snorkeling accessories market in the duration of forecast period.

On the other hand, rising water temperature and coral bleaching are disrupting the balance in aquatic ecosystem. Registering the disruptions, government bodies are introducing stringent regulations in favor of marine conservations. Consequence of which, diving has been banned at various sites, which, further, may interfere with the growth of scuba and snorkeling accessories market during the forecast period.

Asia Pacific is witnessing emergence of various diving locations. Also, rising interest of people for scuba diving is likely to drive scuba and snorkeling accessories market in the region.

Some of the key players of scuba and snorkeling accessories market are Aqua Lung International, Dive Rite, Mares S.p.A, and Duton Industry co.

The companies are trying to sustain their foothold in global scuba and snorkeling accessories market by bringing technological advancements in the product.

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Indian apparel wear brand Manyavar has partnered with Indian Olympic Association as the Indian official style partner for the upcoming Commonwealth Games, Asian Games 2022 and Paris Olympics.

With Manyavar being the Indian official style partner, the aim is to celebrate India and the feeling of national pride by wearing Indian outfits. It is a proud moment to represent the best of the talents like Dutee Chand, Dhanlaxmi Sekar; Indian professional sprinters, Ronaldo Laitonjam & David Beckham champions in Cycling, Manpreet Singh & P.R Sreejesh Indian field hockey players adorning Indian wear, which is the topmost symbol of their culture. The athletes will be heading off to Birmingham to participate in the Commonwealth games.

At the association, IOA Secretary General Rajeev Mehta said, It is a great sign for the Indian Olympic movement that popular and respectable brands like Manyavar are stepping up to support our athletes. Our athletes deserve the best whatever the occasion and a brand like Manyavar will ensure that they are ambassadors of Indian culture and traditions not only on the field but off the field as well. On behalf of the IOA, I would like to express our sincere gratitude towards them.

Vedant Modi, Chief Marketing Officer, Vedant Fashions Limited said, Manyavar has been known for promoting Indian culture and trends in mens fashion. We strongly believe that Indian culture speaks volumes about ones personality. Our brand has always been about standing up for the core cultural values of India. We feel proud to associate with the Indian Olympic Association as their Indian official Style Partner. With this, we hope to take Manyavars Pehno Apni Pehchaan to a global level & evoke love, pride and passion for our culture across the world. We wish luck to all our athletes representing India at the Commonwealth games.

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