Conservatism seeks to either halt the decay of USG where it is, or return USG to some ideal state of the past—restoring, for instance, the Constitution of 1789. Or at least the Constitution of 1932. Or maybe just the Reagan Administration.

But these misty ideals are mummies that disintegrate on contact. They are not true things, but false things—not alive, but dead. You cannot wake them up with a sip of Red Bull. What, exactly, would it even mean to roll back the New Deal in 2009? Answer: no one has any frickin’ idea. Not a single flack at a single right-wing think-tank has any real plan for any such thing. Conservatism can never be a coherent alliance, because it is not a single strategy but a blur of good feelings. Thus, irrespective of its many other faults, it cannot form a Schelling point and cannot win.

Conservativism is not a single strategy but a blur of good feelings... It cannot win.

Ban self-service gas pumps

When propagandizing on behalf of the truth, always try to bring the audience up to your level; never descend to its.

What's your favorite Academy Award Winning film? Mine is this 1945 documentary by Dr. Seuss wherein he explains to American soldiers being sent to occupy a defeated Germany that the Germans are a racially evil people who can barely be classified as human. And the German children are the worst of all... Little monsters... Can't be trusted.

Throughout most of history, it was primarily leftists that despised prior generations. They looked with shame upon the past, wanting to destroy it and move on to something they deemed better. This is the classic rebellious spirit, the spirit of progress, the spirit of communism, the spirit of Americanism. One of the really nasty signs that our civilization has disintegrated is that now this has metastasized in the right. Now it is normal for rightoids to look back and scornfully mock boomers or, even, for younger rightoids, millennials. Gone is the right's reverence for its elders, replaced with rebellious chanting and a faint, somber death knell.

Good propaganda makes the recipient of said propaganda more Worthy of responsibility. Bad propaganda will make them less worthy of said responsibility.

Do not spread bad propaganda. If by convincing people to take your side, you make them worse people, you're poisoning not only them, but also your movement and, to an extent, even your ideas.

Machiavelli talked about this

Putting a fleur-de-lys right next to the name "Oscar Wilde"...? Have I finally gone too far?

A reminder to hold yourself to high standards during times of stress or crisis. Control yourself.

You do not hold power. Your side does not even hold power; you are on the losing team. Heck, you are not even on the losing team, but on a fringe breakaway from the losing team that America as a nation holds in contempt. Remember that. Act accordingly.

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