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Was listening to Moldbug here and he made a great analogy around the 51 minute mark.
(Context - him shitting on rufo and desantis and people like them who think they can make ideological change in the courts/through laws.)
In order to match the power the left has in our society the right would have to do something like the following:
Imagine there were judicial tribunals created for the abolition of critical race theory. filled with ex-patriot prayer members, white activists, etc. Of course now 'reformed' (they went back to law school after all). People who were 10-20 years ago were once alt-righters would be fining and even jailing their ideological opponents in banana courts.
Think about how absurd that sounds. Then recognize this is what exists today in the west, except from the opposite side. This is the way our current judiciary works. This is human rights tribunals. Ex-left wing terrorists are judges and advisors to deep power. The patent absurdity of the opposite happening demonstrates just how far the right is from any sort of power in the west.
I dunno; when Trump issued that EO the left was legit freaking out about it. You're right that they route around it after a time, but the iterative process goes both ways.
How does the right get from now to "right wing judicial tribunals"? We don't just wake up one day and have them. You would have to have policies banning it and some reason to set up those tribunals. One possible reason would be the left keeps trying to circumvent the rules, so you have tribunals to rule on what is or is not "CRT". Then you stack the tribunals with /ourguys/, then they just know that all left-wing thought is "CRT" and therefore banned.
This is one criticism I have of Moldbug: he's good at describing where we are and where we need to be, but his descriptions of the intermediate state leave something to be desired.
you still don't get it. the left goes into hysterics over any kind of pushback, regardless of how mild or how damaging it is to them. any pushback at all, and you're getting a full serving of propaganda by the media machine. that's the implied threat that makes establishment conservatives cower in fear.
and even if you do proceed with implementing said pushback, they'll nullify it (because the entire system is already compromised and stacked with True Believers). as the worthless legislation becomes a toothless farce, they'll continue going into hysterics about how this is the end of Democracy, until the whole ordeal is mostly forgotten thanks to their 24/7 news cycle.
years later, they'll massively exaggerate that pushback attempt in their narrative of history that they teach in schools, as if to say: see? this leader was an unhinged right-wing ideologue! and on and on it goes.
This argument can be used to justify not ever implementing any sort of pushback ever. Going back to Moldbug's original example end-state: how do you ever get your "right wing judicial tribunals" without running afoul of the media machine that will oppose any attempt to create them? Or without the Feds nullifying them? Even a Caesar figure would be attacked, and even if he had his own media and legal apparatus supporting him it would necessarily be smaller as an outsider elite.
At some point the right needs to start testing the waters locally: find out how much of the institutional support it thinks it has it actually has, how much support it takes to make small inroads and hold ground, how much will there is at the Federal level to enforce the law if a state or county goes rogue.
These are all important things to know if your destination is "right wing judicial tribunals to enforce a ban on CRT"
I do think local resistance may be effective. Parents dominating school board meetings and uniting to either kick out the woke teachers or homeschool en masse? Can't hurt. Though the cathedral might destroy them (if this starts to happen, expect a massive push to call homeschooling a cult and devalue those who were homeschooled).
As to your second point, Charles Murray has a book called 'By The People' where he argues that, because of the corruption of the courts and the massive expansion of federal govt power, only hope for any sort of non-woke values in the west is through local civil disobedience (like what the left already does through sanctuary cities).
The utilization of federalism is an interesting idea. I do think if 10% of the U.S. population is willing to get up and move to a state with the express purpose of ignoring the federal government, that would be interesting.
Go full retard. The left was always doing it since 1792 anyway.
Abolish public schooling. Embrace private and home schooling.
Abolish welfare.
Abolish business subsides.
Abolish the federal reserve.
Abolish taxes. Embrace voluntary fundraising for public services.
Abolish the federal military. Embrace state-governed militias.
It's not an argument against any sort of policy. I'm objecting to your claim that the left "legit" freaked out about Trump's executive order.
The government was canceling training sessions and the industry was worried it was going to cease to exist. They weren't outright ignoring the EO the way they ignored Trump trying to pull troops out of Afghanistan and Syria. That tells me it had some teeth, at least temporarily.
You go full leftist activism. Leftist terror-paranoia about being "oppressed" causes a huge psychotic overreaction - a single leftist stubbing a toe means we need to destroy civilization, with a pleasant MINIMUM death toll of 3-5 million.
Leftist activism = schizo victim mindset + sociopathic overreaction
You'll never get anywhere unless you're as psychotic and sociopathic as the average leftie.
Leftists just do things bigger. Eugenics was invented by American progressives as compassion for the genetically retarded. The German NSDAP merely copied them.
There's a reason why Pinochet and Franco killed thousands while Hitler, Stalin and Mao killed millions.
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I definitely agree with getting kids out of public schools and in general trying to minimize your dependence on Woke institutions.
That said, I think people tend to not seriously discuss them because our entire society is oriented towards parents putting their kids in the free daycare known as the "public school system", and structuring your family to avoid that requires pretty significant lifestyle changes. Frankly, most people including most "conservatives" aren't willing to undergo those lifestyle changes.
A society were most families don't depend on public schools without that being a burden is a pretty big commitment to change society. So your options are "change society" or "change the schools". Given those options it's understandable that most people would choose the latter. We are on the fringes of the fringe.
I don't think "change the schools" will work either, but given that no one seems to have a detailed map of how to get from "today" to "right wing judicial tribunals banning CRT" it's hard for me to say that's not a necessary step towards them.