You would think after all this time I still wouldn't be coming across remixes in my music hall of fame, but no, they're an ever-present danger. The culling never ends. 54 plays in, I suddenly realized it shared the same tune as 'Another Mabuure,' only with different instruments, different pacing, and different length. Since I prefer bell chimes to the electric guitar, Magical Dreamers was labelled the remix and sent packing, while 'Another Mabuure' got to stay.
This cut won't last long, as Granblue's new opening, 'Stay With Me,' is set to join my music hall of fame as soon as the full length song is officially released. However, there are a lot of songs that may not survive the full 100 listens. There is historic precedent of me cutting songs that had already been heard 95 times from my hall of fame. Just as there are plenty of albums I'm looking forward to that might expand my hall of fame, there are plenty of songs I'm dubious about that might shrink it. The music hall of fame is like an ever evolving, ever reviving, ever growing, ever dying phoenix.
The actual best election strategy isn't to run as 'America First,' whatever that means. It's to accommodate any and all democratic wishes that America can still survive, in order to get as many moderates on our side as possible. This means legalizing drugs, transgender rights, gay rights, public health care, free abortions for all, equal pay for women, free daycare, blacks policing their own neighborhoods as loosely as they please, gun control, and so on. The only two things republicans should draw the line on is combating climate change and open borders/amnesty. If you stop those two democratic initiatives the country will survive. If you let either of those things through it's over. Which means we shouldn't be encouraging Republicans to get further right, they should actually be running pell-mell to the left so that we can win over moderate white and even non-white voters who don't yet want to destroy the country utterly by shutting down our power grid/flooding us with third worlders.
If Republicans ran as Democrats who don't want to destroy the country utterly, we could win the election easily for much longer than we're slated to stay in power now. We must move massively left and stay in line with the American populace. It's okay to be wrong about stupid and meaningless things. What we can't afford to be wrong about are things that would instantly and irreversibly destroy the country if implemented.
Even this will only buy us some time, but it might let Republicans stay in power 50 more years instead of just 4. If you want to win through electoral politics, you have to pick your battles and only fight winnable ones. It's no use trying to force politicians and think tanks to say utterly unpopular and unelectable things. Israel is an extremely popular country in America with around 80% support. There is no Earthly reason why the far right should be exhausting itself trying to get Republicans to turn on Israel. All that will do is make them even less popular and likely to win elections, which means we can't defend the two hills we must actually die on -- fossil fuels and open borders.
It's also retarded to keep inserting 'Christian values' and 'our Lord Jesus Christ' in an era of rapidly declining religiosity. You just sound like a stupid country bumpkin who's completely out of it. The voters don't want to turn America into a theocracy, they're mostly atheist or agnostic and want secular values and beliefs to prevail. Any mention of Christianity is radioactive and will send potential supporters running for the hills. Christianity is a losing, dying religion and only losers cling to it on their losing way down to the bottom of the status pole. Anyone who says "I'm a christian" turns themselves, as far as the listener is concerned, into a drooling cave man. They don't even bother to listen to anything else you might say after that. It's such a retarded, primitive religion, there's no reason why anyone should continue listening either.
We want Republicans to win elections because they are currently stemming a tide of socialism, environmental doomsday cultism, and third world migration which will utterly annihilate us. Why are you going on about completely irrelevant, losing arguments like 'muh Christian values,' 'we must ban porn,' 'Israel isn't our friend,' 'repeal gay marriage,' 'ban abortion,' etc, etc?
Not only do you lose the vast majority of Americans with your theocratic crap and anti-semitism, but you alienate the richest, highest status, and smartest section of America which has the most sway -- and happen to be disproportionately atheist, Jewish, socially liberal, pro-choice, etc. There are a lot of billionaires who think socialism is a bad idea, who aren't convinced we should shut down the power grid or eat bugs, and who think only high skilled legal immigrants should be allowed into the country. There aren't any billionaires or well respected thought leaders who will ever join the 'America First' political platform. All you're doing is undermining Republicans and making us look unreasonable and stupid as the country as a whole moves further and further left. To what end? Why would you possibly think this is a good idea?
If the far right wanted to be constructive and a light unto the world, it could fight a revolutionary war and institute real change for the betterment of our people, like mandatory marriage and mandatory fitness laws. Alternatively, it could settle a new frontier and create a utopia from scratch constituted solely of right thinking individuals from the start. But they choose neither constructive option. Instead they want to badger people about Israel maybe possibly knowingly killing some sailors 50 years ago due to an understandable wish to protect their country from extinction in the middle of an Arab war of annihilation against them. Even if Israel was guilty of this crime, it was 50 years ago and has nothing to do with today, and anyone in the same position would've done the same or worse, so what are we even talking about here?
Remember the Lusitania? Exact same situation. Britain wanted the USA to join the U.K. in their war against Germany, so they deliberately loaded a passenger ship full of USA civilians with armaments and then slowed to a crawl in known German sub-infested waters to make sure that everyone onboard would be killed. When the Germans foolishly sank the ship in accordance with their strict blockade standards of nobody being allowed to ship weapons to Britain, the massacre planned by the British of USA civilians was completed.
Now, this might sound evil or atrocious or whatever, but the fact is Churchill planned this event in the hopes of getting the USA to save the U.K. from a losing war and at that point they were willing to try anything. And in fact it succeeded. The USA joined World War I against Germany and the U.K. ultimately prevailed. That's called realpolitik.
So did Israel take a lesson from Churchill and the Lusitania, and shoot up the USS Liberty in the hopes of pinning it on Egypt, so that the USA would join Israel in its Arab-Israeli war? Maybe. Or maybe it was just a case of mistaken identity. But even with the worst possible interpretation, that makes Israel exactly as bad as Great Britain. As the freaking war hero Churchill. And note, this happened 50 years ago. No one from that time is even alive in either country. It's completely dead history by now, our current relation with Israel has nothing to do with the realpolitikers of that era.
You want to lose all future elections? Keep nattering on about the USS Liberty, pornography, gay marriage, the right to commit mass shootings with AR-15's, cracking down on marijuana and abortion.
You want to save this country, your wealth and your family from complete societal breakdown? Argue calmly and intelligently about the cost benefit comparison of stopping climate change versus stopping our electric grid. Point to easier and better ways to forestall global warming's 'cataclysmic future' like geoengineering or future energy miracles that will make weaning off fossil fuels costless. Then talk about the corruption, poverty and crime that open borders would bring to our cities and neighborhoods. Talk about how the refugees to Germany are still 90% on welfare even five years after their arrival. Talk about Mexico's current state of lawlessness and out of control murder rate and explain you don't want these things to spill over into America. Talk about the birth rate in Africa, the coming billions of people who will want to come here, and how it isn't possible for a country of 330 million to accommodate them all. Explain that America must look after its own, that already 40% of the country doesn't even have $500 in savings, and that all possible welfare benefits should be used to uplift our fellow countrymen because they're already our responsibility as countrymen.
We can win these two arguments. The facts are on our side. The population is persuadable, they are leaning against these 'bright new Democratic ideas' already. Engage Democrats on these two vital issues and promise you'll compromise on anything and everything else, but you can't compromise on these two things because you know in good conscience that would be the end of America the very next day.
Even if you take this advice, become a moderate, and continue to win elections while forestalling the worst democratic ideas and innovations from happening, we're still doomed. This is because it's impossible for family formation to occur and for people to be physically, spiritually, and mentally healthy in an environment of anything goes freedom. A liberated people have proven themselves unworthy and incapable of self-maintenance. They're unmarried, divorced, adulterous, drug users, sluts, and fat deviant trash that no longer reflects any of the virtues that give humanity value. This is why the far right is needed and why the far right should act to save at least some tiny nook of the world from the ravages of unlimited freedom that liberals have wrought. But at least this is not a time sensitive issue. These problems could be fixed decades from now, centuries from now, before the last moral corner of humanity winked out. There are still plenty of virtuous, upright, healthy, even godly people in America and elsewhere. They can turn things around by clinging together any time. What none of us can do is survive the socialist/environmentalist/open borders apocalypse that is knocking at our door right now. So at the very least, if the far right is too comfortable and complacent to do anything about the long term poisons of liberalism, if we are unwilling to create a society in which children can possibly grow up healthy and normal, at the very least, can't we at least keep the power on, the water on, the dams and bridges up, the murder rate down and other basic norms of civilization by moderating our message, winning over moderates, and winning the still winnable battles while we still can?
This is a battle on two fronts. On one front, philosophically, we must convince enough people to take the crisis of infinite freedom liberalism seriously enough to do something about it. We must stem the black morass of decadence that has left most people stranded, unloved, ugly and full of lies. This will come in the form of a revolutionary war or a settlement of a new frontier and a year zero approach to all current values and ethics.
On the second front, when it comes to electoral politics, we must look to what is possible in a democracy, strive to forge together a majority of the populace consensus, and protect our lives and our fortunes from imminent and total destruction. Right now the democrats are promising to shut down all fossil fuels and open the borders to billions of Africans. If we allow either of these things to happen there won't be any philosophical convincing of any future revival of mankind. We're all sinking together on the same damn ship!
So when trying to convince people, it should be along one of these two veins. On one hand, you should point out the long term and pervasive damage of a society based on hedonism and human rights, how it doesn't work out for most people, how each new generation it works out even less, and how we're headed for extinction if nothing is changed. Do not campaign on a platform of mandatory teen marriage, executing drug users and LGBT's, etc. That is not for electoral politics. Any sane person would understand instantly that this will never win over the majority of Americans and thus can never be what we run for office as.
When you talk electoral politics, when you run for office, it should only be about socialism, climate doomsday misinformation, and the damage unlimited third world immigration would do to people's communities, personal safety and pocketbooks. That's all you need to do. That's already sufficient to save America from the Democrats. Pose as a moderate who can take the other side whenever they're reasonable. Offer gun control, abortion rights for the first two trimesters and free health care for all. Become a popular candidate who can win over the majority of voters, even given a majority non-white voting populace.
A world without sin is possible only through fight or flight -- it will never win over the majority of voters, the majority of whom could never uphold utopia's standards. A world with reasonable electoral victories where our primary interests are still defended is possible through voting, but only if we run as reasonable people who are only defending our primary interests and compromising on other people's primary interests. Democracy is about give and take. Who knew?
If you want to do political good, become a philosophical guru who convinces whatever critical threshold of people necessary to start society over along better values than 'freedom, democracy and human rights.' Or run for office as a moderate Democrat and try to carve out the fundamentals necessary to keep America's lights on. One of the two. Do not attempt to win an election via re-litigating ancient historical events or reviving ancient 2000 year old religions. Jesus, people. Come on!
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