I assume that if you’re like me you take pride in being logical and consistent in your thinking and reasoning. I believe many people were drawn to libertarian thought because this was their process. But, if you’ve been paying attention, especially through COVID, and to a certain extent the Trump phenomenon, you’ve come to understand that the majority of the people around you do not process information through a logical or consistent lens.
I would say the Right leans more toward consistency which, as we have seen, their opponent does not. And the Left doesn’t care if you know it. The Left is all about power and the Right is all about pointing out how inconsistent the Left is. “Imagine if the roles were reversed,” says the right-winger while the Leftists laugh at them.
No, power is not about logic, and it’s not about consistency. And no people can be governed using either because certain people figured out long ago that the majority of people base their decisions on emotion. I will give two tired examples. The Left bought fully into the COVID narrative and that had to do with emotion. The Right, for the most part was skeptical. But, when Russia invaded Ukraine, even the Right stood alongside their enemy, succumbing to the emotionalism of narrative.
Face facts: ‘narrative’ reigns. If you don’t control and construct the ‘narrative’, you essentially have no power. You certainly do not possess the tools to move enough people to change the course of current events. So, being against America’s involvement in this Ukraine affair is meaningless. If you could somehow get enough of the most influential voices to turn on US involvement in Ukraine, that’s when change can happen. But who controls those influential voices? I bet a lot of you think you know. I’m not certain than more than a handful of people actually do.
If you’re relying upon ‘facts and logic’ to reign supreme, you’re using bows and arrows against an enemy who has nukes. Without control of the ‘narrative’ you are the citizens of Hiroshima shooting bows and arrows at ‘Little Boy’.
If your arrow hits the enemy eyes then they cannot push the button to release the nuclear weapons. And while they look for it you have time to cut off their Achilles tendons so they fall down disabled.
Now they have to overcome two big obstacles.
While the "Enemy" figures out how to get up.....you can dismantle their weapons or/and or continue to disable them. At this point you are faced a second set of problems becasue you face moral and ethical issues. The right seems to struggle with this a lot more than the left.
Are you merciful or you want to get rid of the cancer? Keep in mind, you will never get rid of the
cancer totally.
It is always about strategy. The "right" has no strategy. It never had it. The right is the group of people who actually CONSISTENTLY use feelings (morals). That is why the right is conservative.
They conserve a certain set of morals through time. It is a good thing of course, but it gets in the way.
Facts and Logic then are irrelevant against your enemy becasue you use that Bow and Arrow as warning. I am going to throw arrows at you, but I really do not want to harm anyone, just get you to come to your senses.
The far right and the far left seems to be have communalities in ideology and they should unite and work strategically to BLIND the power in charge (left or right) and disable them.