We, the Right, Surrender. (But We Shouldn’t.)
We, the Right, Surrender to the Left. Here's how it works:
One day, the Leftist media and politicians announce a new societal problem. Systemic racism, microaggressions, global warming, misgendering, toxic masculinity, running out of all natural resources, rich people losing a lot of money on bad investments in mortgage-based securities… If the new issue starts to get any traction, then it is portrayed as a Crisis or Emergency. While in reality, Leftists have either created this problem out of thin air (“Pronouns!!!”) or caused it themselves, by government intervention in the medical system, educational system, financial system, or any one of the other American institutions/systems that Leftists control and that government regulators constantly intervene in.
To deal with the societal crisis, the media demands more government intervention and regulation in the affected societal system to solve the problem.
The Left rarely accepts compromise from the Right on solutions. The only solution to the problem is always total surrender by the Right.
When the Right surrenders, then one day soon the Leftist media and politicians announce a new societal problem.
So, in the 21st century, the Overton window always moves Left, toward ever-more government intervention in everything. It never moves Right.
Where did the Misgendering Crisis come from, and what is its solution?
Where did the Mass Killing of Black People by the Police Crisis come from, and what is its solution?
Where did the Global Financial Crisis come from, and what was its solution?
The financial crisis that began in 2007 had its origins precisely in over-complex regulation… It is more than a little convenient for America’s political class to have the crisis blamed on deregulation and the resulting excesses of bankers. Not only does that neatly pass the buck it also creates a justification for more regulation.
Niall Ferguson, The Great Degeneration (2013)
The “Financial Crises” of the past hundred years have almost all been caused by government intervention in the functioning of the financial system. This can pretty much be proved beyond any shadow of a doubt, and has been proved by writers on the Right, but the Leftists who are in control of media, academia, and the government agencies are not interested in hearing or publishing that proof. They prefer the untruths that can be used to justify more government regulation, and more spending and borrowing by government, and more intervention in the financial system by government regulators.
What was the solution to the Financial Crisis? More government regulators took more control of the financial system (the Dodd-Frank bill alone was over 20,000 pages long) and government regulators borrow hundreds of billions of dollars, to hand out as Cantillon money to the rich Leftists in the big banks and other financial institutions.
What Republicans call "compromise" is almost always just surrender to the Left.
Republicans want to spend money on X but not Y, and Democrats want to spend money on Y but not X, so they reach a grand, bipartisan compromise to spend money on both X and Y, in ascending quantities, forever.
Bonnie Kristian, “The Left and Right Are Living in Different Realities”, Reason (2022)
How Compromise with the Left Works in Practice: A Dialogue (from Leftist Untruth #6: Centrism)
Leftists, to Rightists: "You owe us $2 trillion."
Rightists: "What? What are you talking about. We don't owe you anything."
Leftists: "Compromise and meet us in the middle ground. Give us $1 trillion."
(Rightists give Leftists $1 trillion.)
(Next day.)
Leftists, to Rightists: "You owe us $4 trillion."
Race to the Left
Racism (with the new, added White Supremacy Crisis) is a permanent crisis, and has been since the 1960s. No amount of surrender to race-baiting Leftists is ever enough. To the point where, as many have noted, the demand for racism greatly exceeds the supply. A Leftist cottage industry has sprung up to create race hoaxes and fake news, to meet the ever-increasing demand for more racism, created by CRT and Anti-Racism.
Too Much is Never Enough
When Monday, June 20, 2022, dawned many Americans who had not been paying close attention to the actions of their rulers were surprised to find that the stock market was closed and no mail was delivered because June 19 had somehow become a U.S. National Holiday. Many people had never heard of "Juneteenth", whatever that was.
Never mind that slavery was abolished in the U.S. on December 18 (not June 19), 1865. And no one alive in the U.S. had ever been a slave here. (Although there were millions of real slaves in Africa and South Asia in the 21st century, Leftists did not care about them, because many of the slaves were Christians and their owners were Muslims. We discuss this reality in Leftist Untruth #18 Slavery.)
In the 1960's, about a hundred years after slavery ended in the U.S., huge swathes of "Civil Rights" regulations and judicial rulings began to be created by U.S. government regulators, ostensibly to give Equal-and-then-some rights to African Americans. But the demands for "civil rights" laws and rulings did not end there; if anything, they increased, continually. Affirmative Action, Martin Luther King Day, and lots more happened. But ever more was always demanded. No amount of new rights was ever enough.
In the 2020s:
○ Reparations for slavery needed to be paid.
○ Critical Race Theory and "1619" history had to be taught in schools.
○ Police had to be defunded because they were imprisoning African American criminals.
○ Every public vestige of history of slave-owning founders and of the Confederacy had to be destroyed.
○ African Americans had to be given ever more preference in college admissions and hiring.
○ Employees of businesses had to attend indoctrination programs to punish them for white privilege and teach them Leftism.
○ Any demands made by Democrats for changes in electoral processes to favor Democrat candidates were "voting rights" measures and to oppose them was racism.
○ Theft had to be decriminalized because laws against it were used against African Americans.
○ Publicly disagreeing with any of this was "racist hate speech", “white supremacy” and should or would be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties.
And so on and on and on and on...
One day statues are just standing there. The next day the Statue Crisis appears, the Right surrenders, and the statues begin to fall. But the one thing you can be sure of is: Surrender won't be enough. You Want More Emergencies and Crises? The media and the U.S. government regulators can supply new societal crises, in any amount, indefinitely.
“How Worried Should We Be?”
Leaders are facing multiple crises that are happening at the same time, so essentially, a polycrisis. When we asked leaders what they're expecting to happen, well over 80% said that we're looking at consistent ongoing crises that are compounding each other on an increasingly volatile trajectory...
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (2023)
If there were not enough crises on the horizon in 2023, Leftists decided to combine several crises and call it a new crisis: The PolyCrisis. They said it was a “cluster of related global risks with compounding effects, such that the overall impact exceeds the sum of each part.” So, if you start to run out of new crises, you combine several of the old ones that you invented or created into one new one, a super-crisis worse than the others put together!
WARNING: PolyOmni Crisis!!!
Coming Next from the World Economic Forum:
PERMANENT WORLD OMNICRISIS.
“All crisis all the time, forever.”
And the only acceptable role of the Right in all of these societal problems and crises is surrender. Remember the photo of the coward sheriff literally groveling on his belly on the steps of a courthouse, in front of a crowd of Leftists, during the George Floyd Crisis? That was a picture of American surrender.
The Leftist media Crisis-creation system is related to Leftist Untruth#4 Catastrophism. Leftists love to create real or imagined crises because Leftists can then demand government intervention to “fix” the crises. Because every crisis requires that the government regulators get more power, spend more money, and we have less freedom. And the great thing about the crises, from the point of view of the government regulators is: Most of them never go away! If the crisis is an actual problem, government regulators can continually make it worse by destructively intervening in our institutions.
What Is the Solution?
The Leftists demand our unconditional surrender of our freedom, and they always have.
They [the leftists] are utterly intolerant. And are not prepared to allow any discussion. Every advocate of the welfare state and of planning is a potential dictator. What he plans is to deprive all other men of their rights, and to establish his own and his friends’ unrestricted omnipotence.
Ludwig von Mises Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis (1951)
The Left will rarely if ever settle for anything less than total victory; they won’t really let us compromise. But even if they did, we shouldn’t. Centrism is just another way to lose, as we show in Leftist Untruth #6, Centrism. We shouldn’t compromise with evil, we should defeat evil. Visit Rightful Freedom.