Thread by @TheAgeofShoddy

In some ways the difference between left and right is that the left will create a sense of belonging and community which it holds over the heads of people with the threat of leaving them isolated, while the right cuts to the chase and just tells them to kill themselves up front.

The left will spend decades carefully building up institutional capacity through NGOs and associations, weaving their way into the lives of young people and becoming the default against which other things are measured; the right will say, hey, prove you’re not defective.

The left will slowly insert itself into every aspect of life until every last random consumer product and cultural meeting point is bug-eyed Capital-W Woke and demands you be as well to stay in its good graces; the right will say: mentoring? Fuck you. Bootstraps, f*gg*t.

Black Bloc vs. Nude Fascist Bodybuilding; fanatics vs. grifters; bureaucratic creatures of process vs. individual charismatic degenerates; Mass Media vs. anons; the dynamic of the terrified conditional collective vs. self-absorbed antisocial individual reoccurs again and again.

There is absolutely no place for anyone who wants a normal quiet life in any of this.

The left’s approach worked when it was the counterculture: it didn’t have to create real ideals or build people up or make anything work. The right’s worked when it was the overculture: it could rely on natural associations and shared social links to supply the things it scorned.

Reverse the social positions and you end up with a left which is monumentally incompetent at what it controls, which is everything, and more incompetent the more exclusive its control is; and a right that offers nothing but contempt to people left adrift or seeking connection.

The result is that for any ordinary person the experience of dealing with true believers on either side is like getting kicked in the fucking head, over and over and over. Do you want plastic smiles and the fear of what any mistake could bring, or do you want to die alone?

There is no moral to this story other than that there are no friends in politics and no one has your back. Nothing planted here will grow; seek your garden elsewhere.