Stop framing it as "evening the field." Frame it as what you actually believe.
If your response is, "on topic X, I really do believe in a marketplace of ideas!", great. The commons of your marketplace will be ruthlessly exploited. Are you ok with the worst possible position on topic X? If not, keep walking it back until you find what you're actually ok with, and there's your real position. Maybe go a bit further, even, so you can compromise back to the position you want.
I think a big weakness of boomercons is naivete. They have no interest in X, so wouldn't put in the effort to ruin it, so can't imagine anyone else doing so. That's not the same as believing in a plurality of ideologies.
Imagine Satan the devil is real and he's after you. Shape your politics to make it as difficult as possible for him to reach you and yours.
The side that wants to win will always beat the side that just wants to be left alone
Stop framing it as "evening the field." Frame it as what you actually believe.
If your response is, "on topic X, I really do believe in a marketplace of ideas!", great. The commons of your marketplace will be ruthlessly exploited. Are you ok with the worst possible position on topic X? If not, keep walking it back until you find what you're actually ok with, and there's your real position. Maybe go a bit further, even, so you can compromise back to the position you want.
I think a big weakness of boomercons is naivete. They have no interest in X, so wouldn't put in the effort to ruin it, so can't imagine anyone else doing so. That's not the same as believing in a plurality of ideologies.
Imagine Satan the devil is real and he's after you. Shape your politics to make it as difficult as possible for him to reach you and yours.