Great Article "Why Everything is Liberal"

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[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I disagree with the article. I echo empireearth's comment. Conservatives are just as politically active as liberals but the court, academic, dating trends, celebrity culture, religions, HR departments and a lot of other institutions in society have been straight up weaponized against right wingers. There is a LOT more danger for conservatives to engage in political activism (and lets be honest conservatives have a lot more to lose). In fact I think the article is exactly the opposite. Liberals are less politically engaged naturally but the system is incentivizing leftist activism. Bankroll, Incentive, glorify, and romanticize something and you get more of it.

In addition to money, another way to measure cardinal utility is to look at protests. I tend not to trust media or academic estimates for exact numbers, since these things are hard to measure and their political biases mean that they may exaggerate the number who show up for liberal causes and do the opposite for conservatives. Nonetheless, even with that caveat, I don’t think anyone would deny that the women’s march, BLM, and Occupy Wall Street have drawn many more people than rallies for the Tea Party and Trump.

I would put this question to the author: if I go to a BLM or pussy hat rally and burn a business, punch a bystander or smash up a cop car what happens to me? If I do the same actions during a conservative protest what happens to me? That's the difference. That's why you're getting more engagement on the left.

[–]Blackbrownfreestuff 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

If I do the same actions during a conservative protest what happens to me?

You don't have to do anything other than show up to be in serious trouble. Being seen could result loss of job and pemanent blacklisting. Organizing one would result in federal conspiracy charges or being slap sued into poverty.

[–]send_nasty_stuffNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Exactly my point. Until we figure out how to counteract that we are fucked.

[–]DragonerneJesus is white 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It is actually easy to counteract it. The weakness of the centralisation of power is also the strength of it: The power is concentrated on only a few hands. I don't want the sub banned, but the solution to a problem caused by a few heads is easy to solve.

[–]Richard_Parker[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hi,

First of all, I think we need to reform what it means to be conservative. Conservative should mean uninspired, GOP establishment fuddy-duddy ineffectualism at its worst. Think of Liz Cheney, Lee Doren (who used to have a channel called How the World Works). People who dress like dorks and carry on about tax rates and inspire no one.

Proper opposition to the Democrats is the Right, NOT conservatism. One may choose to call it dissident right, new right, alt right, what have you.

That stated, while it is certainly true that wildly disparate approaches to January 6 vis-a-vis the BLM and Antifa riots is certainly important, I think it is just one of many factors. That most who do not pull the far left line are more or less content is the main component. That will change when race riots, the Great Replacement, start to adversely affect contingents of white middle class people who right now are still comfortable.

As others stated, there are many other factors not addressed in this article. One being indoctrination from grade school to university.