Motivated

 

I was listening to Chris Stigall on Salem Radio in the morning of 2/12/26, when he and his guest, who he was conversing with, brought up an important, alarming point. The guest was noting that Democrats are much more politically motivated, astute, and structurally self-framing to work together quickly, repeatedly, permanently ready to trigger a huge rally by loyalist support in public, going public in unison to get their political agenda passed to sway the majority of the voters to their way of doing things. Their political action machine is far superior than is the disorganized, undeveloped, faltering, intermittent Republican and conservative effort to get out the vote, and to rally the public to adopt a conservative agenda. Democrats on average are much better at being organized, united and orchestrated about any issue arising. Can this advantage be reversed? Yes, but it won’t be easy, automatic or without the need to constantly work at it.

Republicans, naturally are more individualistic, focused on their ow private affairs, and dislike participating in civil engagements, joining political organizations, running the government as active citizenry. That natural penchant is allowing Democrats to have their way in the public sphere. Republicans are much more detached from being permanently involved in government affairs, far more so than their Democratic rivals, the more groupist, social Democrats.

That is a huge political disadvantage in the realm of governance for Republicans who mightily struggle to awaken, energize and convert the loyalty of their supporters and the rest of the public to adopt their agenda. Conservatives lack the political savvy and machinery to win the people, to transform their public messaging, into an efficient, effective, productive political push and grass roots movement to sway the public and public policy.

Democrats and leftists are in campaign mode perpetually, so they win more fights than they should. To compete and win, Republicans and conservatives too need to be in perpetual campaign mode on every level of government from local elections to congressional legislative sessions.

If Aristotle is correct and I think he is, the ethical citizen is supposed to also play his role as a responsible citizen so that the government and its legislated and thus implemented policies are a logical outgrowth of the communal, ethical stance held by of the majority of the private citizens, who are in agreement as to how private virtue makes good public policy, for ethics and politics are inextricably linked.

I do not recommend that conservatives legislate morality but instead suggest that their political vision and policies choices are roughly consistent with the ethical views shared by the majority of their followers.. To shape public policy, conservatives and Republicans must copy Democrats and leftists who are in campaign mode perpetually, so that is why it is easy to rally them on any issues their leaders deem critical so they are able to ignite passionate calls to action for their habituated followers to loudly, immediately clamor in public, bringing daunting pressure and media attention to it the issue under discussion

. These advantages Republications and conservatives do not have because they are not in campaign mode all the time, and they ignore public affairs: a grievous mistake because bad actors and bad values have wrecked America as a result. We must not blame the sorry state of our country so much on the bad actors and the bad policies, but mostly I condemn disengaged, listless, unimaginative conservatives for not doing their duty to be active in public affairs, their unfulfilled mandate to run thing on all levels of government and society all the time.

Republicans and conservatives do not unite or stay united, and if they do, as they have done successfully more lately, they are pleased with their temporary victory about one issue or law, and then go back right back to their private lives with no interest in public policy, going back to being disengaged, feeling their fight is over, and it is never over. People will only change the culture and the politics on all levels of governing if they run things at every level, all the time. If good people and wise policies are not being made law, bad people and bad policies will proliferate excess government growth and senseless, liberty-robbing laws and do.

Republicans and conservatives too must educate and habituate their supporters to be ready all the times, at a moments notice, forever going forwards, to hit the streets, flooding the public with the emails, over-running congressional phones numbers, media reports and social media clamoring to loudly, on an ongoing basis, to quickly, massively, routinely, mobilizing their supporters and followers –who are eager to be mobilized and answer the call to perform public service--to bring quick pressure to sway public opinion and public policy.

Once Republicans and conservatives as a whole are competing with the Democrats and Leftists, conditioned and willing to speak and move as one voice and one mind to preach the party line on any issue or event, as their Leftists bosses command followers to think say and rally, protects, demonstrate etc, then Republicans will more legislation battles, and capture more elected seats.

Also in evidence is the lockstep unity of Democratic legislator sin legislatures state and nationally stay on message with one voice, all obeying the group messaging. The followers of Democrats and leftists are ever ready to organize, protest, hit the streets—in other words, they are constantly ready and do in unison spring into action, springing into action to bring pressure upon politicians and the media, including swaying public opinion and controlling the day’s narrative on social media and all media.

This guest and Stigall were expressing frustration that Republicans and conservative-oriented, committed constituents failed to be ready at a moment’s notice to ratchet up pressure, phone calls, emails, contributions and pressure campaigns on politicians to push the conservative agenda.

I have explained elsewhere that Progressivism or cultural Marxism in America, which is synonymous with Democrats and Leftism, are true believers, and their mass movement and holy cause, postmodernist Marxism is the source of the unbreachable unity, willingness to self-sacrifice for the spread and perpetuation of the cause, and be ever activistic to spread this cause tyrannically, culturally and socially all over America until The American Way is vanquished and but a memory.

Conservatives can only match that zeal, total unity and unswerving dedication and loyalty as united millions of individuating anarchist supercitizens. Then we will have the unity, the strength the will and the perpetual desire to be in politics to fight to keep our great exception country, its constitution, its freedoms, its civil society, its free markets, its magnificent culture.

I do not recall if these two pundits wondered out loud why Democrats are so politically organized, disciplined and motivated to push their interests on every level of government while Republicans remain unmotivated, not politically astute, not active, not obsessionally but persistently passionate and ready to engage,, rally and pressure every time it is vital to do so. I think I know why liberals are motivated and conservatives are not

For 25 years or so Democrats and liberals have been moving leftwards; they are true believers in their revered cultural Marxist ideology and that political way of life which renders these devotees collectivized to expend themselves tirelessly to spread their holy cause, its tyranny, its violence, its terrorism, across the land. They are more than motivated: they are hyper-motivated. Without questioning and with bottomless zeal, they hear, believe, obey and execute the commands to action from their ruling elites, ordering them to spring into action at a moment’s nitice.

Conservative, still more individualistic and private, are not ideologues and not political so they lack fanatical motivation to get political and stay political rallying not as one voice whenever needed.

Conservatives need to and are hard-pressed to match that level of motivation and eagerness to fight for the cause they promote. It is difficult for an essentially private person and individual to dedicate time, thought and effort to push a political agenda. Conservatives must learn how to be principled but not fanatical political activists, all the time, on all levels of governing but as individuating anarchist supercitizens, not as true believers with nationalism, communism or fascism as their sacred cause.

If one is becomes an individuating anarchist supercitizen, one becomes able and strong-willed enough to energize the self without receiving orders from a guru running one’s mass movement. Superrcitizens will be political all the time at all levels to make sure the system is clean run, fiscally sound, kept limited in size and scope, and well run, but mostly they will be private individuals running their private lives at the same time. They will have the energy, will, and versatility to balance and juggle both, their private and public roles and duties.

They will be idealistic and yet practical and moderate enough to work with millions of other supercitizens to develop, plan and execute a national plan good for each individuator and good for America.

Supercitizens will run the school boards, serve as dogcatchers, township clerks, city council members, filling all bureaucratic and elected roles all the way to president and foreign affairs secretary.

Progressive true believers are vigorous and energetic because they are in the active phase of pedaling their holy cause. Their guru has ordered to be active, so they are. True believers, otherwise in quiet political eras, are listless, silent, basically meek and fatalistic.

Supercitizens by contrast must become politically motivated and engaged and then stay that way as a political and cultural defenders for decades to come.