Lomez has good thread on new Anton interview. This is important part. I have tried in whatever way I can to tell relevant parties--all the talent is on the "right," and it was in frogtwitter. There were people doing amazing funny thing, like Chair, who had to stop...
The right lost at least temporarily some good artists, some capable of becoming great maybe. Some were fragile and won't ever come back. Others maybe will later, but much time will have been lost. It's a failure to nurture and cultivate great talent. Problem is miserly ideology.
Right wing ultrarich are quite few. In part they are intimidated; maybe they are right to be afraid. But the worst part of it is not this fear, because there are ways around it; but a libertarian faith in principle: that only what makes money is worth supporting
The predictable consequence of all this is what Lomez and Anton say, that the left takes over the culture. What's needed isn't just direct patronage though, but platforms that aren't left-corrupted. Have own movie festivals or venue halls--no need even to call it "right wing"
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Simple statement of true leadership from Lee Kuan Yew: but simple truths need always to be repeated!
This may sound like "antidemocratic authoritarianism," and may be unwelcome now when we face the tyranny of a cruel and rapacious oligarchy. But it is its opposite--short thred:
An avowed dictator like Lee Kuan Yew or Putler takes responsibility, owns his position: he is forced to declare his plan and intention. The salus populi, or the well-being, prosperity of the people in both cases. They will be judged by concrete results. There is also transparency
In postdemocracies like America and west Europe, no one knows who is responsible. It's supposed that a vague "system" rules, or fashionable opinion. Nobody knows who: increasingly absurd puppets (Bush, Oboma, Hillary, Rubio, Pelosi etc.) are paraded as a form humiliating theater
The right is taking all the wrong lessons from the California recall. "Leave the state, if you can't even get rid of this governor who is on tape disregarding his own lockdown, it's over. We need you in red states." This is wrong because there ARE no "blue states"...(thred)
Since spring 2020 riots there is accelerated program where the left tries to consolidate power and presence in certain key states. They rule these states now but the majority isn't "blue," and they know this, just the right does not. The left is in a "coastal consolidation" phase
To retreat, to allow them to consolidate physical presence and power in some of the richest states is a big mistake. Electoral maps alone will show you that there are no "blue states," just an archipelago of counties, but even within those counties their power is phantom votes