The Strategic Situation Left And Right

The left can do whatever it wants.

It can be and is always on the attack.

Because it never pays any price for defeat.

It always either wins territory, or pays no price. 

No matter how insanely wrong it is, it's acts are always represented as efforts to promote the good...to advance the cause of "justice." 

Progressives never even consider the possibility that the left might be fundamentally mistaken about anything. They never doubt the rightness of their ends. Leftists' only criticisms of their movements take the well-known form: I agree with your goals, but I worry that your means are not optimal... 

Perhaps some methods are too radical...but only because they put people off or otherwise fail. There are no other ways for them to be wrong, and no way for the ends to be wrong.

If any of this is ever in danger of falling into doubt, the media is there to make sure it doesn't.

Conservatives, on the other hand, are always on the defensive.

They never win.

There is no such thing as winning for them.

All they can do in any given battle is: not lose today.

They are always assumed to be--and always represented as--backward and bigoted and greedy. Always moved only by ignorance and habit and self-love.

There's an assumption deep within the minds of almost everyone I know--including myself until about two years ago: the left is fundamentally good and right, the right is fundamentally bad and wrong.

I'm the kind of person who one would think would have rooted that assumption out years or decades ago--but I found it still in there.

Not to blow my own horn, but: what hope do other people have of rooting it out?

At any rate:

Given the strategic situation, you can see:

It's only a matter of time...