There was a lot of whining from Republicans and conservatives about the Biden regime’s Day of Transgender Visibility falling on Easter this year. But as is typical for American conservatives, they refuse to reflect on why this happened, and how they contributed to it happening.
Perhaps the most obvious lesson is the danger of excessive “inclusivity.” If you don’t establish one idea as supreme in the land, someone else will enshrine his own idea and exclude yours. We can see this already with literal shrines to Satan set up in government buildings around the country, and anyone who attempts to remove these shrines is punished to the full extent of the law.
What happened here is that conservatives decided to enshrine wealth and the pursuit of wealth as their only principles. The problem is that these are not principles at all. Republicans assumed that by reflexively offering tax cuts for the wealthy every time they come into power, they would permanently retain the loyalty of the wealthy, which is absurd. To be fair, I do see leftists repeat this “rich people don’t have principles” mantra, and it’s just not true. A rich man would like to see the world shaped a certain way just as much as a poor man, and he has the resources to influence that.
In the end, Republicans don’t have any kind of ideology except money, and that’s not an ideology. It was a completely predictable outcome that wealthy people would look for a political camp that does offer a utopian ideology of the world, and it’s not Republicans.
Democrats, on the other hand, understand how the game is played and did not just look within the confines of the USA, but at the world stage as a whole. They constructed coherent ideological platforms that can be sold across the planet. Climate change and LGBT are excellent ideologies because they unite tyrants and capitalists regardless of what country they’re from. Meanwhile, Republicans were asleep, totally oblivious to what was happening.
A lot of this has to do with a total lack of self awareness. Americans are some of the most liberal people on earth, and this isn’t new. Even in the 1980s, an American conservative was still more liberal than a literal communist in the eastern bloc. Boomer conservatives all LARP as characters from Mad Men, so much for “family values.” It’s possible to find sexy lesbian spies in Tom Clancy books, so it’s not as if LGBT became the linchpin of American culture overnight, and conservatives definitely had a hand in it.
Over time, Republicans developed a knack for punching right. If someone within American politics is too conservative, Republicans will dogpile him with the same enthusiasm as Democrats. If there’s a foreign government or institution that is more conservative than the USA, Republicans will condemn them as authoritarian with the same enthusiasm as Democrats. One would think that guys like Putin or Orban would be natural allies of Republicans, but Republicans themselves are too stupid to realize this. Even right-wing regimes like Poland or Latvia reflexively side with Democrats. Even countries that hold parades for the Waffen SS will dutifully hang LGBT flags outside their government buildings, a token of submission to the Democrats, and their code of conduct. You can be a nazi and that’s completely fine, as you’re a gay nazi.
How about the Crocus City Hall shooting? Hiring some drug-addicted illegal immigrants to mow down a mostly-white crowd sounds like something straight out of the Democrat playbook. Why has no Republican or conservative demanded an investigation to determine what Biden’s CIA and State Department knew about the impending attack?
But of course it’s not just Democrats. Ronnie Reagan, patron saint of conservatives, practically invented ethnic terrorism against white people. Reagan brought a group of dirty child-raping terrorists into his office and treated them like serious politicians. And Republicans want to cry about woke? That sounds pretty woke to me.
For several years I’ve had this growing feeling that Democrats want to kill me just as much as they want to kill Russians. Meanwhile, conservatives treat this like it’s a game, but their hands are just as bloody. All the deaths caused by ISIS are just as much on Republicans’ heads as Democrats’. That’s why I can’t pity them.
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Libertarianism and amoral “free market” economics has been a scourge of the Anglosphere for centuries. Unfortunately “right-wing” dissidents continue to make the same mistake of being against something without having a clear improved substitute. Or they descend into IQ-sperging (too many to list) or soft gay porn (like Bronze Age Pervert).
Homosexuality and abortion were normalized during the 1980s in much of the western world at the same time as financialization.
One could simply highlight the glaring contradiction and ask why the most obvious, conspicuous people on the planet need more visibility than they have already, and isn’t the point of their movement that they’re supposed to blend in with everyone else? Dylan Mulvaney ain’t foolin’ anyone.
Of course, you know what highlighting contradictions sounds like and we can’t go there.