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the greatest trick American liberals ever pulled was gaslighting conservatives into trusting the "institutional pillars" of "our democracy"
"is that a reputable news source?"
"is that a peer-reviewed study?"
"has that been proven in a court of law?"
"is that even constitutional?"
"does that agree with the academic consensus?"
"what about decency and optics?"
etc.
"is that a peer-reviewed study?"
"has that been proven in a court of law?"
"is that even constitutional?"
"does that agree with the academic consensus?"
"what about decency and optics?"
etc.
not only does this keep conservatives chasing their own tails while liberals focus on concrete political and cultural changes...
and not only does this hamstring conservatives like scrupulous police officers following the speed limit and traffic signs in a car chase from a bank robbery...
but the truly brilliant effect—the Luciferian cherry on top—is that the methods used to hobble "the conservative 'movement'" *constitute the basis of conservatives' own moral identity*, like a kind of auto-hypnosis or Stockholm Syndrome
"we are *conservatives*! we stand for law and order, public order, common decency, the free marketplace of ideas! donate now to help us stop the latest liberal assault on our hallowed democratic institutions. help us to save* what's left of America!"
*conserve
*conserve
conservatives have become so radically gaslit and Pavlovian-conditioned to "preserve what makes America great" (our courts, colleges, scientists, etc.) that they exhaust their political capital defending the very institutions that liberals infest and wield against them
even worse, the conservative mind has become so entranced by the pledge to "hold the line" against liberal incursions that it has *no sense of moral identity apart from this quixotic martyr-complex*, like a brain-damaged cat who won't move without the elusive laser to bait it
what conservatives fail to grasp is that all politics is Machiavellian, or it is mere public posturing. adding insult to injury, conservatives further fail to realize that their form of posturing is *inherently reactive*, like that brain-damaged cat https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Machiavellians_Defenders_of_Freedom.html?id=eS7zAAAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description
if you were to convert the history of "American conservatism" into a clay figurine and play it in fast forward, it would resemble Mr. Bill being warped and crushed and torn by cruel liberal implements, its "posture" a sequence of impotent, *reactive* gyrations, protested in vain
