There seems to be a victimhood mentality plaguing the right these days over the progressive takeovers of mainstream institutions. From traditional media outlets to bureaucrats in three-letter government agencies to community organizations that have gradually drifted to the left, a concerning number of conservatives seem happy to take their football and go home when groups or organizations ideologically drift away from us. It doesn’t have to be this way.
One of the reasons the left is so effective is because they generally believe in incremental change. When a billionaire on the right gives money to a conservative cause, they expect some form of return on investment for the money donated. They want to see proof that the money was used to tangibly move the needle in their direction. Not so on the left. When Hillary Clinton first pushed universal healthcare in the 90s, it was not intended to affect legislation but rather to gradually shift the Overton Window of the American electorate on the subject. Less than 20 years later, Obamacare was passed.
If conservatives would take a collaborative, incremental approach to the management of changing ideology within organizations, our side would be much more effective, and local to national institutions would begin shifting back in our direction. Watch:
Victimhood is a social issue and not a political one. In our era, it starts when the boomers began maturing in the Vietnam-war years. Then in the last decade or so, there has been a pandemic of the millenials during which any group or individual who feels they have a grievance about the unfair treatment they are receiving from some "they," feelings get hurt. This self-pity crosses all the political spectrum.
I agree with this. However there is a missing piece. Democrats are generally not moving the Overton Window to advance progressive cause. They only trumpet progressive cause as leverage and deflection for their only real goal... to achieve absolute power and control. They are perpetually the underdog... insecure around Republicans.
Because Republicans are secure in their morality and purpose, they are not obsessed with filling a gap of self-worth by attempting to dominate and punch down their ideological competition. Instead, Republicans have more often used their time to focus on self, family, friends and God.
The mistake was not playing enough defense against the power obsessed Democrats. And the primary source of failure was allowing the Democrats to take over the education system. Generations have been brainwashed and indoctrinated. Republicans really knew this was happening because their kids came home from school spouting absurd radical beliefs. But they ignored it. And now the young electorate is corrupted with a parasitic toxic mind virus.
The incremental change back to traditional conservative values requires taking back the education system. They know it and are committed to preventing it. Any Republican politician joining them against school choice, home schooling independence and traditional value reforms, must get the boot.