Conservatives and the Left: What If Each Ran the Country?

Look, when it comes down to it, a nation run by conservatives wouldn't be as much fun. Probably: no legal weed. Significant penalties for getting caught with it. No sexual revolution. Let's say: no hookup apps, social stigma discouraging casual hookups and high body counts (gross term). Teh gayz: back in the closet with you! Prayer in school, abstinence propaganda. Probably not free pr0n on the interwebs all over the place... Flag-burning: illegal. Illegal aliens: all deported. Maybe some creationism in bio classes. Lower taxes and lots fewer public services. No abortion. I dunno. I'm not really thinking of all the things... It'd be a much churchier place. Much more straight-laced.

   Anyway, the point is: not a super-fun place.

   I'm against it.

   OTOH, imagine a world in which the left got what it wanted: socialism. Gender ideology brainwashing in schools and the brainwashed kids getting sexually mutilated left and right. DEI for everything everywhere, including NSF and NIH grants. CRT and indoctrination into it everywhere. Open borders and no deportations. All science ideologically infected--possibly by law. Universities fully converted into re-education camps. Extremely high taxes, especially on the rich and corporations--including punitive "wealth taxes." Censorship a la Biden's "mis-/dis-/mal-information" bullshit pervading government and media. Money lavished on leftists NGOs that then distribute it to leftists to feed it back into the Democrat party--and shower it on other countries for drag queen story hours in Ulan Bator and everywhere else... No controls on elections...draconian control of firearms, criminals released willy-nilly...

   In short: a catastrophe.

   Conservatives are wacky in their own way. And I don't want them to have unbridled control of the country.  But we know they won't destroy the country, because they used to control it and we did just fine.

   Leftism is made up primarily of these components: (a) insane policies that have never been tried, but which will obviously lead to disaster (e.g. decarceration); (b) policies that have been tried over and over and failed every time (e.g. socialism), and (c) people with mental problems (see: the psychological differences between progressives and conservatives).

   If you wanted to draw up a blueprint for the destruction of the USA, ergo the West, ergo the world, you really couldn't do any better than the blueprint the contemporary left is already trying to implement.

   We know conservatism won't destroy us because we've been there, and it didn't. Nothing similar can be said about contemporary woke leftism. In fact, it's more likely than not to lead to our destruction.