First paragraph I think you're talking about the GOPe + Neocon faction. Yes, they don't care about winning at all, beyond each individual politician retaining their own congressional seat and all the money, power, prestige, and other perks that come along with having that seat. And they're the ones who always use worn-out wedge issues like abortions to distract from their own corrupt and self-serving conduct. To make matters worse, I think the GOPe have been deliberately sabotaging populist races, to the point where the party as a whole has very little unity. The Democrats however are almost all completely on the same crazy page.
As far as I see it, leftist activism that manages to capture a critical mass of institutions (or the entire state itself!!) always becomes an unstoppable force, when left to its own devices. There's always one leftist who is more "pure" and devoted to the cause than the next leftist. And leftism itself self-perpetuates by appealing to the weakest, most mediocre, and inferiors qualities in people. Leftism grows an army of orcs and when that army gets big enough, it mobs the halls of power. This force is unstoppable until a ruthless dictator (from within that leftist push) comes to power and shuts down the purity-spiral to hell. Essentially, it takes a Cromwell, Napoleon, or Stalin to stabilize any form of leftist zealotry that has captured the state.
Most of the right-populists who want to stop Woke Leftism really have little idea what they are up against, despite having a thorough familiarity with all the outer cultural elements of Wokeism. Starting at the local level and taking back school boards, sheriff's offices, town councils, ect. is a good start, but they'll eventually have to face the problem of dealing with corrupted state-level party machines (with a lot of help from their federal-govt friends), who will use every dirty trick they can to stymie the populist wannabe-insurgency.
I'm really unconvinced that the sort of colossal mess we're in right now is something we can vote ourselves out of.
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Date: 2023-04-10 02:41 pm (UTC)As far as I see it, leftist activism that manages to capture a critical mass of institutions (or the entire state itself!!) always becomes an unstoppable force, when left to its own devices. There's always one leftist who is more "pure" and devoted to the cause than the next leftist. And leftism itself self-perpetuates by appealing to the weakest, most mediocre, and inferiors qualities in people. Leftism grows an army of orcs and when that army gets big enough, it mobs the halls of power. This force is unstoppable until a ruthless dictator (from within that leftist push) comes to power and shuts down the purity-spiral to hell. Essentially, it takes a Cromwell, Napoleon, or Stalin to stabilize any form of leftist zealotry that has captured the state.
Most of the right-populists who want to stop Woke Leftism really have little idea what they are up against, despite having a thorough familiarity with all the outer cultural elements of Wokeism. Starting at the local level and taking back school boards, sheriff's offices, town councils, ect. is a good start, but they'll eventually have to face the problem of dealing with corrupted state-level party machines (with a lot of help from their federal-govt friends), who will use every dirty trick they can to stymie the populist wannabe-insurgency.
I'm really unconvinced that the sort of colossal mess we're in right now is something we can vote ourselves out of.