Mike’s Iron Law Numero Uno: Revolution is a process, not an event.
Loser Mentality and Winner Mentality. Those are real things. You win long enough, you figure out what it takes to win and you come to expect it. And you’re comfortable with it.
Oddly, same thing applies to Loser Mentality. Eventually, you prefer losing.
That’s the Right.
The Right is on the verge of a couple big things. I think. I hope.
1. Massive election losses for Democrats. Everyone is focused on Congress but this beating is going to go all the way down to the school board level.
2. A slowly emerging aggressive mentality from the New Right.
That’s a good thing. But there is going to be a frustrating thing for many on the Right. I know it will be frustrating for me. And that’s the Loser Mentality.
And to be clear, I’m for once not calling them losers. I mean, many are. But some are just a product of the Old Right.
If you’re on the Right, limited government and all that, you’ve never seen real wins in your lifetime. Not real wins. Sure, there’s been an election win you’ve celebrated. But if you’re alive to read this, government has never shrunk in your lifetime. Ever.
Which means you’ve grown up a loser. Always losing. Always told to wait for the next election. Always told giving the communists just a little more ground is the right thing to do.
And there’s something else:
Principles. You’ve heard this word endlessly. We can’t do this and we can’t do that and what’s the reason? Principles. It’s always principles.
And this is what I mean when I say I’m not calling them all losers.
Many on the Right believe that.
They’ve simply been raised in a political system where their job is to whine about Democrats and scream about things like “Hypocrisy!” and “Double standards!”. But that’s where it ends for them cause that’s what the Right has always been.
Even suggesting doing more than that is met with the indignant cries of “That’s not who we are!”.
THAT is loser mentality. It’s in our culture on the Right. It’s ingrained by now. Being “conservative” to the Right means whining while we lose. Nothing more.
And as we get BIG election wins, we better find a way to overcome that mentality. We are going to have opportunities we’ve never had before.
The communist won’t be our main enemy. Loser Mentality will.
Maybe so, maybe so. But we damned well better not repeat our habitual mistake of taking our eyes off the Red-menace beanball for even a moment, either. Wanna know what the vector usually is for the Commies to penetrate the defenses of their intended victims and gut them from inside their own walls? The one single thing The Enemy watches and waits for, his biggest opportunity to begin the incremental process that concludes with our utter destruction? The indispensable component in creating, nurturing, and disseminating of the Loser Mentality itself? Relaxation of the foeman’s vigilance against him, that’s what.
Yes, the Loser Mentality must be eradicated, and that right soon, if any tatterdemalion shreds of America That Was are to survive for much longer, their former glory perhaps eventually restored, if only partly. But let’s not forget that the samething holds true for the Commies as well; the question of which existential threat should be serviced first strikes me as akin to the old “the chicken or the egg” paradox, a debate I’ll cheerfully abstain from for the nonce. The main thing, the crucial thing right now is that Team Liberty gets out of bed and starts to move at last. If the freshly awakened Sleeping Giant merely yawns, scratches his ass, and flops back down to resume his slumber, the Loser Mentality will be part of our national character forever, the Red Menace will have defeated us decisively, sending all our forlorn hopes swirling right down the fucking drain.
Sean says one hell of a lot in relatively few words here, and kudos to him for making such a fine job. I particularly like that he eschews any mention of “The Republicans” in favor of “the Right” or “conservatives.” He appears to have reached the same conclusion about the Vichy GOPers as I have: they’re useless, and placing any faith whatsoever in those fake phony frauds is a mug’s game at this late date. To hell with them, sez I. They can all burn to a crispity crunch there for all me, which they definitely will do long before I ever reconsider the idea of taking up with them again.
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The other thing we have to avoid is letting our virtues erode – how many times has the Right simply co-opted the “values” of the Left and claimed victory? Every “compromise” is simply a move farther Left.
If the Right compromises its values, we’ll find we have nothing left.
The problem is the commie rinos run everything, and they really do not WANT to be in charge, people would expect them to do something. McCarthy, McConnell, Romney no body in the party is screaming traitor. They are all playing a game might be 3 patriots total who are not sold out globalists.