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Liberty Hill Publishing Presents A Bold New Book And Multimedia Project Aimed At Engaging Millennials And Uniting The Conservative Movement – Launches Crowdfunding Campaign At Indiegogo.com

Boston, MA — Conservative activist, writer and marketing executive, John Paul, has completed his bold new book America, Cues for Conservatives – How to Engage the Millennial Generation and Unite the Conservative Movement in support of a new brand of political conservatism. As part of this monumental multimedia project, the national crowdfunding campaign, found at Indiegogo.com, has launched on April 13. Visit the following campaign page to learn more: https://igg.me/at/CUES/x/13389060

John Paul channels his extensive knowledge of American politics, Millennials and his 20+ years experience as a professional corporate marketer to guide a new generation of conservatives to effectively defend and promote conservatism – and fight back against the radical progressive agenda.  The timing couldn't be more urgent with the upcoming 2016 presidential election and the mounting divisions within the Republican Party.  

The crowdfunding campaign for Cues will be used to fund the publication of the book, create a series of engaging animated videos, produce a multimedia campaign to reach Millennials and other Americans. As part of this endeavor, copies of Cues for Conservatives will be sent to every conservative and independent member of Congress. Contributors will have the opportunity to order advance copies of the book – in both digital and print – and support the cause to Bring America Forward.

The Cues for Conservatives campaign videos – including an animated overview highlighting a key chapter of the book – can be found at the Indiegogo.com campaign page referenced above.

The author stresses the importance of this effort. In brief, America's political future will very soon lie largely in the hands of the Millennial Generation, people born between 1981 and 1999. Millennials are now coming of age and beginning to take over the workforce. Soon they will control American politics, too – leaning heavily toward liberal, socialist and Democrat parties. What will this mean for the future of our country? How can conservatives respond to this alarming trend?

How can we better reach, inspire and engage this younger generation to save our country from the failed and destructive liberal agenda? The political Left, leaning ever more radically progressive, has succeeded in persuading Millennials and other key demographics, significantly out-messaging conservatives with their mastery of political marketing and domination of the media, entertainment and education. If Republicans do not build a unified front and have a clear strategy to win the support of younger voters, we will quickly become a permanent minority party. 

Cues for Conservatives is a book that focuses on how the Left has managed to win Millennial voters and other key demographics, and how conservatives can use some of these same methods, in addition to some bold new tactics of our own, to win them back. It is the how-to handbook and multimedia blueprint for proactively defending and promoting conservatism with our changing electorate.

Liberty Hill Publishing, a division of Salem Media Group, is a self-publisher dedicated solely to protecting and sharing the conservative message. Retailers may order Cues for Conservatives – How to Engage the Millennial Generation and Unite the Conservative Movement through Ingram Book Company. The book will be available online through libertyhillpublishing.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.

Capturing the Youth Vote: A Must for the GOP to Win in 2016

If you thought the youth vote was a problem for Republicans in 2008 and 2012, 2016 could be a nightmare.

Millennials (born between 1981 and 1999) number over 80 million and are the largest generation in 100 years. Accounting for roughly one-fourth of the total voters today—a larger voting block than seniors citizens—they are predicted to make up as much as 40 percent of the electorate by 2020.

Their size and scope as a generation cannot be ignored. They are now coming of age and beginning to take over the workforce. Soon, they’ll dominate American politics, too. 

The McCain and Romney campaigns largely glossed over the youth vote and paid the consequences. If either had one just 45 percent of the youth vote, they would have won their elections. Republicans do not need to win the youth vote, but we need a strategy to be competitive.

My business is marketing, and the GOP would be well served to take a business-driven look at what drives Millennial minds.

As Pew Research reports, “Millennials today are still the only generation in which liberals are not significantly outnumbered by conservatives.” Young voters continue to identify with the Democrat Party at relatively high levels and express significantly more liberal attitudes on a range of issues, from gay marriage, abortion, the environment, and the role of the federal government.

Republicans may not need to change their core beliefs, but the Party must take the time to understand how to understand the issues that young voters care about most about, how they see the world, and their media engagement habits and preferences.

With messaging, we need to be more specific.  

When it comes to politics, the “what works” principle seems to reign supreme in their minds. As an example, Pew has found that 53 percent of Millennials would prefer “Bigger government, more services,” as opposed to only 38 percent who prefer “Smaller government, fewer services.”

While this seems bad at first glance, the good news is that specific messaging might change this perception. A 2013 CRNC survey found that replacing vague warnings about government being “too big” with harder policy points was a good way to attract Millennials to the message and policies of limited government conservatives. We need to avoid clichés and stick to practical policies that would help everyone.

Another example: in a 2015 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PPRI), 55 percent of Millennials say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, vs. 42 percent who oppose. However, a National Journal poll showed that 52 percent of Millennials are in favor of banning abortions in the second trimester (after 13 weeks). 

Conservatives can win this controversial debate if we campaign on specifics. Running on banning late-term and pain-capable abortions is a winner, versus running on banning all abortions, which would lose Republicans significant support.

Beyond just messaging, Republicans also need to show up. We need to message to Millennials on their own turf.

Americans aged 18-to-24 consume 64 percent of their news online, and only 20 percent from television. Compare that to people to ages 55 and older consuming just 25 percent of their news online. Young voters have significantly less trust in traditional news outlets vs. online social media sites.

Conservatives are doing a great job reaching Republicans on Fox News, which older voters watch, but Republicans have no real presence in entertainment news. 39 percent of the Daily Show’s regular viewers audience is younger than 30, the largest youth audience for any TV news program.

Republican candidates need to focus more on being heard and seen on shows that have online and social media reach. It may look ridiculous to older Americans for candidates to “slow jam the news” with Jimmy Kimmel, but those are the types of videos young voters watch.

Conservative media entrepreneurs should also consider investing in youth-friendly online videos or television shows focused on humor.  For TV news, it’s not necessarily that Millennials favor the “liberal take” on news and politics as much as the more appealing format of talk shows like The Tonight Show and The Daily Show.

If conservatives can create similar news programs with skits and jokes in this mode, and avoid the lecture-based news programming of today’s conservative programming, we may be able to get much bigger numbers of Millennial viewers consuming conservative viewpoints in the news.

Imagine recruiting Vince Va­­ughn or Rob Lowe to host a libertarian/conservative news show. That would be effective. While Republican candidates do not yet have access to these types of shows, we need to go into the lions’ den and appear on more liberal entertainment news more often.

Candidates who show up are more likely to win, and candidates who show up with specific, pragmatic, youth-focused messaging are what Republicans need to compete in 2016. If we do not start competing for the youth vote in 2016, we will be doomed as a Party by 2020.

What do you think, and what are your ideas and suggestions for the GOP to capture the support of this generation?

Hello, Hillary 2016? Goodbye, First Amendment

In an astonishing new poll taken last year by YouGov, an astonishing 41% of Americans – including 51% of Democrats – support criminalizing “hate speech”.  In the poll, such a hate speech law would "make it a crime for people to make public comments intended to stir up hatred against a group based on such things as their race, gender, religion, ethnic origin, or sexual orientation.”  

While this sounds nice to the sensibilities of the average liberal progressive, it spells a certain threat to our freedom of speech as spelled out in the First Amendment, and potentially the end of this essential freedom enjoyed in our country for over 200 years.  “Hate speech” is, of course, highly subjective and is what progressives call any speech that doesn’t support their narrative and world view, whether the speech is true or not.

It’s something that Hillary Clinton has shown repeatedly that she would make a priority in her term as president, should she pull off winning the presidency in 2016.    Like all totalitarians, she will “stand up” for the rights of society’s “victims” by criminalizing free speech that she and her liberal supporters find offensive - and jail those who dare to cross the line. 

The First Amendment is a nuisance to far-Left ideologues like Hillary Clinton, who view our belief in individual freedom and the right of self expression as a crime against their progressive ideals of an ordered society.   It’s a reason the Left distains our Constitution with such vigor, labeling it outdated, racist, primitive and irrelevant in today’s multicultural society.  Never mind that the values enshrined in our Constitution have given rise to greatest – and most free – society in history, free speech is just too offensive for those who want to mute us in the name of “fairness and equality”.

It’s a worthy price for the goal of a progressive utopia here in America, right?

A few cases in point, in case there is any doubt about Hillary’s true agenda:

While Clinton was Secretary of State under Obama, she championed the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) -backed United Nations Human Rights Commission Resolution 16/18, which calls for “combating intolerance, negative stereotyping and stigmatization of, and discrimination, incitement to violence, and violence against persons based on religion or belief.”  

Of course, the member states of the OIC ignore the UN’s Declaration of Human Rights outright in favor of their own, anti-human rights Islamic declaration, subject to Sharia (Islamic) law which bans all criticism of Islam, its laws and its prophet, under penalty of imprisonment, torture or death.  This resolution is nothing short of forcing sharia compliance worldwide, and Hillary Clinton supports it wholeheartedly.

This Resolution 16/18 effectively requires that countries pass laws criminalizing “Islamophobia”.  The OIC is set on making it an enforceable crime for non-Muslim people anywhere globally —including here in America —to say anything about Islam that Islamic law does not permit. 

This includes even true speech about Islam.   Just ask Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, a Viennese housewife and anti-Jihad activist, who was charged and arrested under Austria’s criminal code for "denigrating religious beliefs" after giving a series of seminars about the dangers of radical Islam - the kind of criminal code that Hillary would love to import here into the United States.  The Austrian judge ruled that Sabaditsch-Wolff committed a crime by stating in her seminars about Islam that the prophet Mohammed was a pedophile – even though the Koran and other Islamic texts clearly show that he married a young girl at 6 and consummated the marriage (had sex) with her when she was only 9 - and he was 54. Shockingly, the truth is no defense in hate speech cases like this.

Filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, maker of “Innocence of the Muslims”, a video falsely blamed by Obama and Hillary on the 2012 Benghazi terror attack that killed four Americans, was jailed as promised, when Hillary is reported to have personally vowed to “make sure that the person who made that film ["Innocence of Muslims"] is arrested and prosecuted.”

She upheld her support of Resolution 15/18 by supporting Sharia law compliance concerning the anti-blasphemy provisions in the law in this case.  Hillary was more consumed with gagging the free speech rights of the filmmaker than finding the terrorists who killed four Americans.

Clinton has also fought against political free speech, with her support for the overturning of the Citizens United decision which struck down a ban on political expenditures by corporations and unions, with the Supreme Court arguing that the ban violated the First Amendment protection of free speech. 

Once again, that pesky Constitutional protection of free speech is getting in the way of Hillary’s agenda for our country.  While, according to Clinton, it should be illegal for billionaires to use their First Amendment rights of free speech to influence elections, it’s completely fine with Hillary to receive hundreds of millions of dollars directly from billionaires – and foreign governments with horrendous human rights records – to fund the unaccountable Clinton Foundation.  It’s the predictable progressive double-standard once again at work.

Hillary has been consistent with respect to her positions on limiting free speech here in the US, and like the 51% of Americans who want to criminalize “hate speech”, she forgets that the greatness of our country – and the Western world – depends on the right of free expression and dissenting speech.   It’s called the FIRST Amendment for a reason, because freedom of speech is our first and most important birthright that the very survival of our republic depends on.   Holding such positions should immediately disqualify Hillary – or any other candidate – from the presidency, because their first and foremost duty of the president is swearing to protect and preserve the Constitution of the United States, not shredding it as Hillary will certainly find a way to do if she manages wins the office.