The party of new ideas

Politics is the means through which an individual’s preferences are sorted into categories for the purpose of power concentration. The sorting process seeks to fragment individuals from their identities and nuance from issues. Instead, identities become points on some grand Venn Diagram where each circle is an issue. Successful politicians target messaging where the diagram overlaps and that is the limitation of their connection to the individual.

If there are multiple areas of overlap that contain enough individual points, politicians will mix messages, even if the messaging becomes inconsistent. Consistency and simplicity are shunned. A politician like Maxime Bernier from the People’s Party of Canada, say, who argues individual points on principle can never be successful in such a field except under the umbrella of a party that does not argue principles. Whether or not we agree that his principles are the correct ones, he does not target the overlapping areas or mix his messages.

The political process is a destructive process.

The Democrats, though, have chosen a completely different strategy for a number of years. Most of their ideas, as far as they have them, are unpopular or of limited popularity. They have become a party of ideologues. They consistently mix messages, but they avoid overlap.

Is there a person in the world that wants essentially open borders and no voter ID? Who really thinks school choice or the “Parental Rights in Education” bill are controversial? If people really care about carbon emissions, why do we hear about it, wouldn’t those people be living off the grid somewhere?

No, Democrats and to a similar extent the Liberal Party of Canada have switched to a strategy of burning society down and salting the earth years ago. Instead, they target entire issues on the grand Venn Diagram and tell people that anyone that believes in these issues is racist or homophobic or a climate denier. And you don’t want to be one of those, do you?

Choosing a political party used to be difficult because nuance was lost in the political process and the mixing of messages meant that, inevitably, there were some issues that people did not agree with in principle. Smaller libertarian or green type parties had no chance of being elected because they did not mix enough messages to entice people, so a vote to them was wasted.

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A guest on MSNBC says that Democrats will win if they "brand" Republicans as racists "Take a branding iron, put it on them"

The Democrats and Liberals eliminated any need to make difficult choices: “Vote for us or we’ll ostracize you and call you names”. I used to hate all political parties more or less equally, but these parties don’t even have the thin veneer of honesty on any issue. When a man who is easily old enough to be my grandfather is saying the best strategy is to act like a schoolyard bully, all I can do is say “grow the fuck up” and dig in.