I keep being told (and want to believe) that whether people are culturally liberal or conservative is irrelevant, but then I actively hear pushing socially conservative messaging is the way forward. Why concede that social conservatism has a monopoly on non-market relationships?
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The first one makes more sense if you draw it out, but never precludes other possibilities. The second is precisely the definitional problem - if conservative just means "non-Left" and we can't control what "left" actually is, then by definition we're left with conservatism.
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Why doesn't the definitional problem hold for (or does it?) for Marxism? I guess I just don't get why we need to concede this point, to me it seems like a Faustian bargain, which didn't work for the left when recruiting liberals.
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It's a problem of explicitly adopting any named ideology, yes. The repressed horror of our times is that in the end it's other people who determine your identity.
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