From this https://twitter.com/Outsideness/status/1056885755954454530 … I figured out how and why conservatives are selected for being losers.
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This works okay as an incentive structure as long as proggies are relatively tolerant of submissive conservatives. They have to throw the outer party a bone from time to time. The problem is that, lately, this has become impossible for them.
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Cthulu's continuous march leftward...the holiness spiral can be moderated, but never stopped, short of abolishing leftism entire. Even vaguely functional (fascist) sanity has become intolerably far right of the ruling leftists.
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Simultaneously, the internet's shattering of the broadcast stranglehold has made proggies feel insecure, and they've responded the same way theocracy has always responded: by doubling down on the iron fist and tyranny.
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It turns out all those proggies who were in favour of free speech and open societies were Straussians trying to stop the rabid fanatics from destroying a critical support of permanent revolution.
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