On some level I can understand the peanuts and circuses of it all, but there is one layer that the tradcuck misses and it is the value of chronicle and cultural mimetics.
This is the conservicuck in action - refuse and trivialize the levers of power, gets "outraged", does NOTHING, "heh, what a bunch of sissies am I right?" which almost always leads to "IMAGINE IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED!", rinse and repeat.
In having done so, they have conserved nothing. It is a blindness to how important this shit actually is.
On some level I can understand the peanuts and circuses of it all, but there is one layer that the tradcuck misses and it is the value of chronicle and cultural mimetics.
This is the conservicuck in action - refuse and trivialize the levers of power, gets "outraged", does NOTHING, "heh, what a bunch of sissies am I right?" which almost always leads to "IMAGINE IF THE ROLES WERE REVERSED!", rinse and repeat.
In having done so, they have conserved nothing. It is a blindness to how important this shit actually is.
Conservatism is designed to be a losing ideology.
An example:
Liberal: "We are currently at 0. I want 100!"
Conservative: "I want to stay at 0."
Liberal: "Let's be reasonable and meet in the middle. 50?"
Conservative: "Alright. 50. Look how levelheaded I am."
A week passes.
Liberal: "Okay, I don't like 50 anymore. Now I want 150!"
Conservative: "How dare you? I will defend 50 until the day I die."
Liberal: "Let's be reasonable..."
Rinse and repeat.
''Conservatives'' today are trying to ''conserve'' 1990-2010 Democrat politics, but without the backing of 1990 demographics.
Demographics is destiny.