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Kurt Schlichter: Stop Dooming
by Kurt SchlichterIt must be a conservative thing to willfully embrace the most pessimistic possible outcome with a sense of smug satisfaction in the hopelessness of it all. It’s not universal, though. Ronald Reagan didn’t do that – his sunny optimism revolutionized conservatism in America. But the right’s tendency to always look on the dank side of life has not been thoroughly exorcised. It’s still there, right now, demoralizing and demotivating our people just when morale and motivation are exactly what we need. It's understandable why Republicans often doom. After all, conservatives do not believe in the perfectibility of man, but rather that man is fallen. This often leads us into believing that whatever bad can happen is definitely going to happen. But the reality is that the worst case scenario rarely happens. It can, but it’s rare. A defeat is rarely total, a set-back is usually just that instead of a permanent failure. Dooming fetishizes the inability to succeed. It repeats exactly what our enemies want to hear from us. Yet its practitioners often consider themselves edgy, posturing themselves as the only ones willing to make the hard choice for cynicism. Baloney. Dooming is tiresome. It gets exhausting to hear people willfully ignoring and downplaying any hint of success so that no gleam of hope pierces the darkness of the hopeless future they anticipate. Yes, in any operation you always have to count on things going to hell and be ready to deal with that. But the fact is that things don’t always go to hell. In almost every case, things are not as bad as they seem. Dooming makes you forget about the fact that the other side in this cultural struggle has its own problems. We conservatives are not facing geniuses. We are facing a bunch of narcissistic halfwits who are not a tenth as brilliant as they believe they are, and who inherited their cultural positions instead of creating them. We’re not fighting a bunch of cunning Darth Vaders. We’re fighting a bunch of pronoun-obsessed dorks, many of whom can’t even do a push-up. And all the while, we got 400 million guns. Read the rest at the link Posted by: badanov 2023-09-07 |
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