Leftist autophagy is nothing all that new; they've been notorious for that from the beginning. Monty Python was poking fun at it in Life of Brian back in the 70s. Despite that inherent fractiousness, they've continued rolling over everyone in their path, so it's clearly not that much of a handicap.
A lot of balance could be restored if the right simply adopted a reciprocal principle of not automatically denouncing right-wing radicals. "If you send Antifa we'll send the Proud Boys" would calm things down a lot in the long run. Arguments along the lines of "You can talk to us moderates or to those nice lunatics with the rifles" tend to be very effective; that was basically MLK Jr's schtick.
A lot of it comes down to moral confidence. Not only does the left not have a limiting moral principle, it also denounces the right as immoral; worse, conservatives tend to accept this frame. "We want the same thing you do, just by different methods." Regaining balance requires the right to have the moral confidence to denounce the left as immoral when its behavior is, in fact, immoral ... which is usually. And naturally, to enforce moral standards on the right, as well ... but that is much less frequently a problem.
Until the majority of the right is able to move back to a based position that one man sucking another man's dick is not something to be proud of, and individualism is more important than group identity, we will continue our descent into madness.
Woke Inc. is full of toddler minded adult children and society has been acting like a mother who can't bring herself to enact a modicum of discipline on the child. It won't limit itself, only become an uncontrollable monster.
The only thing that will check this monster is widespread economic hardship or a hostile takeover from a nation that doesn't fly the rainbow flag over their barracks. Spoiled children don't exist during famine or war.
Leftist autophagy is nothing all that new; they've been notorious for that from the beginning. Monty Python was poking fun at it in Life of Brian back in the 70s. Despite that inherent fractiousness, they've continued rolling over everyone in their path, so it's clearly not that much of a handicap.
A lot of balance could be restored if the right simply adopted a reciprocal principle of not automatically denouncing right-wing radicals. "If you send Antifa we'll send the Proud Boys" would calm things down a lot in the long run. Arguments along the lines of "You can talk to us moderates or to those nice lunatics with the rifles" tend to be very effective; that was basically MLK Jr's schtick.
A lot of it comes down to moral confidence. Not only does the left not have a limiting moral principle, it also denounces the right as immoral; worse, conservatives tend to accept this frame. "We want the same thing you do, just by different methods." Regaining balance requires the right to have the moral confidence to denounce the left as immoral when its behavior is, in fact, immoral ... which is usually. And naturally, to enforce moral standards on the right, as well ... but that is much less frequently a problem.
Until the majority of the right is able to move back to a based position that one man sucking another man's dick is not something to be proud of, and individualism is more important than group identity, we will continue our descent into madness.
Woke Inc. is full of toddler minded adult children and society has been acting like a mother who can't bring herself to enact a modicum of discipline on the child. It won't limit itself, only become an uncontrollable monster.
The only thing that will check this monster is widespread economic hardship or a hostile takeover from a nation that doesn't fly the rainbow flag over their barracks. Spoiled children don't exist during famine or war.