8 Reasons Why Conservatives Lose

[mystery-ak]

October 20, 2024
8 Reasons Why Conservatives Lose
By Stephen Baskerville

It is time to face the harsh reality of why the extreme left has been able to seize power in the United States: the logical and inescapable corollary to the left’s victory is the right’s defeat.  The conservative professional political class lost.

Yet the right refuses even to acknowledge the left’s victory.  The reason is clear.  If you admit that the left won, then people will start to ask why the right lost, and the next logical question is why we should continue listening to what they say, giving them money, and so forth.

It has now become so glaring that a few are starting to acknowledge their uselessness:

    The establishment Right’s failures over the last generations have been manifold. ... Since the end of the Cold War, what trajectory-altering successes or victories can the Right cite to demonstrate its worth? ... Despite spending billions of dollars supporting its infrastructure…the establishment Right has registered no clear gains and many clear losses.  Much of the nation was conquered on its watch.

Thus writes the editor of an unusually forthright recent book assessing professional conservatism.  One contributor goes farther.  “You could even argue that it abetted most of it[s defeats],” he suggests.  “Where official conservatism’s opposition hasn’t been ineffectual, it’s been collaborationist.”

Conservative media today are full of horror stories about the wicked deeds of the left (and they are indeed wicked).  They rant and rave, and then they offer wish lists of how they would put things to rights if they had magic wands.  But about their own failure, the silence is deafening.  This confirms suspicions that the failure involves more: incompetence, cowardice, perfidy, or betrayal.

Imagine a military leader or athletic coach, reviewing a recent defeat with his team, who just lambasted the opposing side for their successes but never critiqued his own team’s performance or told his men how to improve.

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[Fishrrman]

Professional conservatives seldom even acknowledge that they were defeated.

Professional conservatives do not understand why they were defeated and do not want to understand.

Conservative politicos are highly authoritarian and do not tolerate criticism

Conservative leaders’ main priority is not to address public problems or oppose the left, but to build power bases and fiefdoms for themselves

Professional politicos, including conservative ones, develop a vested interest in perpetuating the problems they claim to be combating.

Many conservative professionals are lawyers who love to sue.

Conservative groups imitate leftist ones and collude with them.

Conservatives are contemptuous of ordinary Americans.

[rustynail]

Because they are controlled opposition of the uniparty?

[Hoodat]

Conservatives lose any time that the candidate choice is between a Democrat and a hardline communist.

[corbe]

   We read History and know that Reagan and some others were just an aberration in our lifetime that we probably won't achieve, again. 

   The Sheep will always follow their Master, the gov controlled media, msm.

[Ghost Bear]

Because they are controlled opposition of the uniparty?

Nailed it in one. The so-called "conservative movement" was only ever meant to be controlled opposition, the Washington Generals forever losing to the Harlem Globetrotters.

[Kamaji]

Because they smugly think that their ideas - to the extent they've developed ideas - are so self-evident that it's beneath them to try and persuade the doubters as to their validity, and are unwilling to prioritize and compromise on those points that fall toward the bottom of the list of priorities.

[Fishrrman]

Kamaji wrote:
"Because they smugly think that their ideas - to the extent they've developed ideas - are so self-evident that it's beneath them to try and persuade the doubters as to their validity, and are unwilling to prioritize and compromise on those points that fall toward the bottom of the list of priorities."

This is the regrettable legacy of William F. Buckley.

I much prefer the "troglodyte" old-time conservatives who came before him -- the ones from whom he tried to disassociate "conservatism"...