Of course Tristan Yates is right about where the collectivist regime will eventually lead the country. Collapse is what we’ve been trying to prevent. We shouldn’t look forward to collapse as a point where we’ll turn the tables or a time when we’ll be vindicated. We’ve already been vindicated, over and over and over. All one has to do is have the benefit of a good education, supplemented by a broad personal program of reading.
But that’s the problem, isn’t it? People who don’t have the ability or inclination to think for themselves can and will fall victim to the blandishments and lies of get rich quick schemes and demagogues who promise something for nothing.
The ideas that Reagan carried with him into office were superior to the Left’s alternatives. But he didn’t win because the electorate was able to appreciate this. He won because of his personal magnetism and his ability to give hope to a nervous and suffering people(I say “suffering” not because people really were suffering in any significant way but because they perceived themselves to be suffering).
The point of my saying this is that the vast run of people exist outside of ideas (which are abstractions) altogether. They may pay lip service to some shred of doctrine they’ve gotten hold of; but they’ll turn on it that doctrine (and the one who taught it to them) very quickly if they think that it doesn’t work.
What Tristan is basically saying is that “you’ll ultimately win because you’re right.”
No. No. We won’t. I see our task as 1% developing and refining ideas and 99% finding a charismatic leader who can get those ideas across in a way that makes people feel good in some ways.
