{"id":18585,"date":"2022-04-16T09:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=18585"},"modified":"2022-04-16T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T13:55:55","slug":"curtis-yarvin-gives-an-example-of-winning-the-battle-and-losing-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/16\/curtis-yarvin-gives-an-example-of-winning-the-battle-and-losing-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Curtis Yarvin Gives an Example of Winning the Battle and Losing the War"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was reading an article by that highly intellectual critic of the social order we live under<\/a>, Curtis Yarvin.\u00a0 If you are unfamiliar with his writing, Yarvin\u2019s analysis of the oligarchic nature of the American power structure is in many ways observably correct.\u00a0 And although his writing style and his elitist perspective are sometimes maddening, his ideas are very often illuminating.<\/p>\n

In this case he was writing about Elon Musk\u2019s offer to buy Twitter and bring it private.\u00a0 The gist of the argument was that because, potentially, Musk could completely control Twitter\u2019s policies and actions toward the public it was a rare chance for a pure strategic victory against the Left.<\/p>\n

And to contrast it with a tactical victory that eventually led to a strategic defeat he relates the decades long struggle against crime in New York City.\u00a0 The familiar story relates that under decades long liberal rule New York grew more and more crime-infested until by the late 1980s there were over 2,000 murders a year and the whole city was besieged by petty and serious crime.\u00a0 People were leaving the city by the hundreds of thousands and public confidence had evaporated.\u00a0 This set the stage for a law-and-order Republican, Rudy Giuliani, to win the mayor\u2019s office on the strength of a promise to restore law and order through stringent policing methods.<\/p>\n

And it worked.\u00a0 For more than twenty years Giuliani and Bloomberg who came after him, were able to maintain New York City at low levels of crime.\u00a0 Levels that hadn\u2019t been seen previously even in less chaotic times.\u00a0 New York became a livable big city and thrived financially and culturally.\u00a0 But what had not changed was that the majority of New Yorkers were still progressives who deep down in their souls resented the fact that this criminal justice system ended up incarcerating mostly black criminals.\u00a0 Since their logic told them that somehow this wasn\u2019t fair, they were never happy with the system even if it saved them from a tidal wave of crime.<\/p>\n

So, after they became complacent about crime and when the George Floyd moment came New Yorkers were glad to have the excuse to abandon effective policing.\u00a0 And the rest was inevitable.\u00a0 Now the city is more dangerous than ever and trying to get back to where they were a few years ago seems politically impossible.<\/p>\n

Yarvin\u2019s point was that the tactical victory by Rudy Giuliani allowed for the strategic defeat that came afterward.\u00a0 In other words, allowing conservatives to do the dirty work for the progressives doesn\u2019t alter the beliefs of the progressives.\u00a0 It only enables it.\u00a0 It never leads to permanent change.<\/p>\n

And I saw the same thing in Massachusetts during the 1990\u2019s.\u00a0 The Democrats would crash the state fiscally with bleeding heart programs and corrupt practices and then the Republicans would have to clean it up.\u00a0 But they would never get any credit for the changes.\u00a0 And as soon as the ship was righted they would be replaced with another round of dysfunction.\u00a0 At best the Republicans were a relief valve that kept the whole insane machine from exploding.<\/p>\n

Well, this is an old story.\u00a0 But Yarvin\u2019s emphasis resonated with me.\u00a0 Winning a battle and losing the war was not something that should be done.\u00a0 What we can\u2019t afford to do is patch up the Left\u2019s system.\u00a0 We need to let them utterly fail at what they do.\u00a0 We need to exclude them from some endeavor as completely as is possible and then make that endeavor an undeniable success.\u00a0 And then keep them out of it.<\/p>\n

Where I see that already happening is at the state level.\u00a0 Places like Florida and Texas and other states need to change their laws to make them uninviting for progressives fleeing from California and New York.\u00a0 And they need to protect themselves as completely as possible from the federal government.\u00a0 In that way they can build their own system and reap the benefits while excluding the Left.<\/p>\n

Places like California and New York need to be completely abandoned by the Right.\u00a0 They need to crash completely.\u00a0 As I like to portray it, they need to reach the level where cannibalism is the dominant lifestyle of the inhabitants.\u00a0 Things need to get so bad that eventually the Leftists simply die off completely.\u00a0 And all that is left are normal human beings.<\/p>\n

The point is victory is only victory when it weakens your enemy and strengthens you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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