Hi A Navy Vet, and thanks for your service.
I admire the fundamental idea you have, but I have long held the view that there are 2/3 or more of the Left that we will never be able to reach, ever. It doesn’t matter how logically based or fundamentally sound our viewpoints are, we will never, ever be able to reach the majority of Leftists, especially those who are inclined to be politically involved on their side to “move the needle” for them.
A large portion of those people on the Left will never repudiate their Leftist views, especially those at the very top. It is rare that they switch sides. A notable example of one who actually did would be a man such as David Horowitz, to whom it took a murder of a friend and co-worker by the Left he gave his life to in order to make him see the light. And he is very, VERY intelligent man.
There is another even larger group who are disinclined to change, and often only a violent “mugging” (literally. a REAL mugging or assault) can get them to change their minds, and sometimes even not then. These are the sptittle-lipped, fever-faced true believing foot soldiers of the left. The Social Justice Warriors fall into this group, as do the MoveOn types, Code Pinkos, et al. They believe in the inherent good in man, they really do, even if they don’t believe in God, almost universally.
Those two groups added together make a somewhat impenetrable bloc of leftists.
There are some we can talk to. possibly change their minds, but those are generally the “Good Hearted Liberals (who may be open-minded and somewhat receptive by default) politically apathetic people who get mugged (and are then wide open to change) and young people, who start out as leftists, but once they start raising a family of their own, can become conservative.)
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I readily acknowledge that this is somewhat pessimistic towards your idea, and basically so because I think there are always an inexhaustible supply of budding leftists to whom the siren song of “Equality of Cultures and Equality of Outcome” are completely tied to each other and present to the weak minded and gullible an irresistible combination of a multicultural one-world-government utopian dream.
WE understand there is never, and will never be an equality of outcome. We fully comprehend that not all cultures are equal. And we recognize that multiculturalism is a toxic poison that will corrode and destroy any human container it is placed in.
The bottom line is, Leftists believe that Good People can govern absolutely, and WE know we do not want to be governed absolutely by Good People because of the diminishment of freedom inherent in that contract. And they will NEVER understand why we don’t buy 100% into their idea of what government should be.
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Sadly, I believe since the advent of the Sixties Radicals in American Politics, we have been at war with people who are not Americans who have American values as we do...the American Left.
Good thoughts and I agree with most of your post. One thing we have to take in to account is only about 20% of Americans self-identify with being on these liberal/statist side of things.
This is where the Alinsky playbook has come in to play making them look like a bigger presence than they really are. The problem is so many of this 20% or so is in powerful places of influence, like our government, education, corporations, the media, the entertainment industry and so on. This is where the focus needs to be in order to turn this culture around.
Until we break their hold on the positions of influence, they still have enough influence to hold on to this power they have over the American sheeple. I do believe President Trump is doing everything he can to try to break their evil hold over these sheeple but it will take solutions by the Patriots or We the People, to help him bring that around as we are a much bigger presence than the 20% who hold all that corrupt power.
CGato