The main reason the Left has been winning is that they have been far more willing to sacrifice their own personal interest for their sake of their ideology. Right wingers generally are not.
The Left was at its nadir in the 1980s, after having run amok in the 1960s and 70s. The backlash came in the 80s and crushed the Left for a generation. The 90s were a Leftist period of rebuilding and recovery, with the LGBT movement being the most energized, active, and growing tip of their spear. It wasn't blacks: Rodney King led to an immediate chimpout which set back any sympathy for blacks + OJ Simpson getting off made blacks cheer but hurt their image.
Which is why in the 2000s, the Left rallied around the LGBTs. They were not successful most of the decade and got overshadowed by 9/11.
But when the 2008 financial crisis hit + American war weariness with the Iraq/Afghanistan wars + "libtard messiah" Obama, the Left got extremely aggressive to counter-attack, and it worked for a short time, until the Tea Party movement blocked it in 2010.
But by this point the Left was in "all gas, no brakes" mode and it had a very, very effective war machine radicalizing college kids and then weaponizing them to infiltrate corpos.
The Right's Tea Party quickly failed as a movement. It was taken over by loser grifter candidates and the public simply didn't give a fuck about fiscal responsibility.
As the Tea Party fell, the libtards roared into nonstop attack, with occupy wall street followed by BLM.
The Right BARELY squeaked a victory in the 2016 election with Trump, and Trump proceeded to radicalize the Left even more, while also giving them TDS. Trump actually made the Left stronger in many ways, since he kept making them angry constantly. Long term this might help the Right by getting the Left to drop their mask, but it also means in the short term we have to put up with a lot of extremely aggressive libtards pushing their bullshit as hard as they can.
We are now in a situation similar to the late 1970s where the libtards have seized and held power, and ruined the US economy with inflation, while also causing a huge increase in crime. This iteration, the Left has also added a morally disgusting LGBT angle trying to openly destroy children with tranny shit. Therefore, while we should expect that a backlash is coming, it just isn't going to happen by itself. We on the Right need to make it happen.
The huge difference between now and 1970 is that the left has a stranglehold on information. The whole covid debacle is just the latest example of how the left can successfully stamp out all information except that that fits their narrative for the normies. so long as Google, most social media platforms, and the normie news sites exist and are passively respected, we are not going to see a change.
The GOP isn't helping either. they really are just the party of "at least we aren't Democrats". whenever they do seize power, they squander it in the same political games at the left plays.
I honestly don't see a way out barring secession, unironically.
They controlled the media in the 1970s. Now, we have made the media obsolete for many people thanks to things like twitter. We also have more conservative media alternatives.
It worked until it didn't. There was a lot of dissent over the fact that COVID was made in a lab, and the libtard media has gotten blown up over that now. They lost. Fauci lost. It takes losses like this to slowly turn the normies against them.
Secession is pretty much impossible. There are not natural borders. The right dominates the rural areas too much, and the left dominates the urban areas too much.
I have wondered about a modification of our political system. Right now we have 50 states, 2 senators each. What if we changed representation so that there were 50 states with 2 senators each, but every census, the 20 largest cities got their own senator, and didn't get to vote for state senators.
NY LA Chicago Houston Phoenix Philadelphia San Antontio etc
Would have their own, almost certainly Democrat senator. Meanwhile, Republicans might actually have a chance again in California, NY, Illinois, etc.
Look at Georgia. The enclave of Buckhead, part of Atlanta, has had a Atlanta secession movement for years. It almost made it to a vote this year, but who slapped it down? Republicans. Weak.
Why did republicans not let Buckhead secede?
I think the feeling was that if they let Buckhead form its own city and leave Atlanta, that Buckhead was where so many businesses area located, where many wealthy neighborhoods area, and is something like 70% white (as opposed to Altanta as a whole which is ~40% white), that the decreased tax revenue for the rest of Atlanta would lead it to decay and fall apart.
Also, the "optics" of a wealthy area wanting to pull out like that were bad.
I'm personally ALWAYS in favor of smaller units of government. Smaller government is more responsive to the people. I used to live in a small town, and if you emailed one of the city councillors, they would almost always either email you or CALL you back. Where I live now, good luck getting a response. Good luck getting a response from your US senator.
Smaller is better.
Totally agree. I used to really be into anarcho capitalism but this is one aspect I like from it. Plus associating with like minded individuals
Good analysis. I do think a backlash is coming for the lgbt or the endless lecturing about black ppl that you see everywhere. A local radio host where I live said that the left will crawl naked over broken glass to vote against Trump. It’s funny because i remember when Bush was evil and Hitler but now the media loves him.