It seems we are drifting into an era of stalemate, and the globalist forces win a stalemate as it preserves the status quo.
One viewpoint to advance would be we have two political parties disintegrating, but a media, donor and elite class intact, and the public separating into three groups:
- Passives- fear change, afraid of the future, cling to status quo (see NYC Mayor election)
- National Populists- activists based on national driven themes
- Social Populists- activists based on Social Justice themes
To defeat the elitists, I posit a leader needs to blend groups 2 and 3 into common cause over time.
It may not be possible.
NEVER get the SJW’s to join the populists.
The reality is that #2 is red America, while #3 is the elite. They may not openly march as SJW’s, but they support them, fund them, encourage them.
I would submit that globalization, and its attendant socialistic control, is disintegrating. There seems to be some version of nationalism showing up on both Left and Right. See Brexit and French election.
SJW’s would need some serious deprogramming before they could be welcomed in category #2. I’m not convinced there are too many; they are just noisy. Most millennials are not SJWs, not by a long shot. They are not populists in the sense of the term I understand.
The SJWs on campus are getting some pushback. Defeating them is better than incorporating them. Social justice is an inherently pernicious concept that can only corrupt.
As for the passives, keep in mind that the majority is always passive. Even in times of revolution most people fall into this category. At most, the goal should be to win their passive (i.e., voting) support. Aside from that, they will sit it out. To win their passive support, make them fear the leftist future. Remember, for the Left there is no status quo. The Left always wants change: the past be damned.
National-Socialist Populism? Gonna have a naming problem there.
Labels aside, I agree that there should be money to be made in attracting some of the other guys by appealing to the more reasonable of their propositions. An early step might be bringing some of our own weak-willed fence-jumpers out of the Hillary and NeverTrump camp. And already I despair.
More practical than blending the activist wings, might be to focus on recruiting *their* passive wing — union workers, decent folk, who bowl on Saturdays and vote democrat just because. I think that this is already a rich vein for Trump, and should continue producing for some time.
Attracting the passive working class is logical. I still see an opportunity to redirect the energy of the inevitably frustrated SJW youth. Diversity for it’s own sake is an empty bucket for dreams.
If “Black Lives Matter”, then why is not such energy put into School Choice?
Instead of ‘diversity’, promote ’employee ownership’
I predict the Millennials are becoming disillusioned by the Social Justice nonsense but are still looking for meaning and a cause.
To rebuild your community is to rebuild America.
Such energy can be funneled, it just takes the right language.
BLM will never be interested in school choice because they are not interested in solving any problems. They are interested in power. What they have learned from their post-colonial intersectionality is that power is an end in itself. In fact, power is the only end worth pursuing. Poor education in urban schools is irrelevant.
Likewise, diversity is a vehicle for the balkanization of the electorate to effectively disenfranchise voters, leaving power in the hands of the media and academic elites. The populist backlash in the US, Britain, and Central Europe is a response to this coup d’état. Millennials looking for a cause may find it there, if they are smart enough to recognize the threat to their futures.
So, how do we pick up a portion of the passives who are following the leadership of BLM? What could we use to get them to see that they are being led into never-ending dependency?
MJ, I believe you have grasped my point. The opportunity to create liberty from the Globalists is to bring in perhaps 40% of the people attracted to the Progressive version of Social Justice.
We do that by promoting liberty based social justice to fill the void in their aspirations. School Choice, Rebuilding communities around new plants and new business, breaking State licensing monopolies on entrepreneurship.
I propose that 40% of the people attracted to SJW really do not want to become the thought and speech police.
We can destroy the higher education monopolies which are the main thought control centers of the globalists with credentials versus degrees.
I think your concept of 40% a bit high. Your earlier point that most revolutions aren’t the majority usually translates to maybe 20-30% I believe. They manage the “revolt”, keeping leadership under tight control, seeing the message is co-ordinated, etc. Rather like the democratic party. Look at any socialist/communist “revolt” and you see the same organizing principles.
Someone wrote an analysis of insurgencies, and they came up with this same idea – that all insurgencies are organized the same way. A small leadership group presents the directions, spread to a somewhat larger group for spreading to the “masses”.