The left, certain foreign influences, the big corporations and so on.
Let's be realistic, in the more crowded, competitive, "smaller", world with its dynamic threats is just not conductive to such near anarchist fantasies. I'd focus more on orienting the full scale of government's power more towards protecting its citizen's freedoms and controlling the international situation, as opposed to controlling own citizens and protecting international interests.
Agreed. Although problem is, government will always decide to use it against the people it sees as a problem.
Half of these issues are unrelated to progressivism and more related to general socioeconomic changes over the last 200 years. News solutions in those areas are needed, but even if you could snap your fingers and make leftism disappear, some of these problems, to some degree, would remain, as they do exist even in places like Japan, Russia and even Iran. Some of the problems meanwhile would completely disappear - after all, Japan has some biggest and most crowded cities in the world, yet they don't have some of these quite new problems that have become "part and parcel of living in a big city" in the west.
They are not unrelated, they are one of the reasons why leftism / progressivism is so successful. Families basically don't exist anymore, and literally everything we have come up with to try and compensate for that problem... is controlled by the left.
Leftism is just better at adapting to conditions created by modernity, partly because it was created by said conditions.
How do you save those who don't want to be saved? Its one thing to convince right wingers and centrists that some form of more traditional family just works better than the leftist alternatives, but totally infiltrated institutions and leftist families themselves, not much you can do about those.
I meant families in general. As for the Church, no idea. Half of the leftist language is basically copy-pasted from Church sermons anyway, it is just out of the context and often pushed to the extreme.
They are as tribalist as they come, they just consider their not-religion their tribe, just like islamists in third world easily ignore tribal divisions regarding fellow islamists, but will kill own tribesmen for having wrong religious views.
What I meant is that unlike natural tribes which are mostly concerned with their own survival and only lash out against others if they are perceived as a danger, leftists want absolute domination - they see any dissent as a threat, and do not want to allow existence of anything outside the leftism itself.
It is an epitome of totalitarian ideology.
The Roman Republic lasted for nearly half a millenium, so considering modern tools and the cultural heritage of western countries, not a terrible timespan to aim at.
True, and it was replaced by a monarchical government that lasted for 1500 years. But the world has sped up significantly since then.
I also disagree about those acts being necessary. For example, the espionage act started out not too bad but expanded greatly due to war hysteria.
That is what I meant with "but problem is".
Simple, you don't; the is no silver bullet and no grand strategy that can defeat the Far-Left without becoming the monster's they already paint the Right as.
Progressivism isn't going away, even if the Right somehow regains more power than the Left, and learning to live with it and focus on curbing it's excess is the best outcome we have right now.
But that basically means accepting Left's victory as inevitable and, essentially, hoping that some kind of apocalypse will wipe out the modern society without exterminating human species as such, and that before Leftists manage to either cause humanity to go extinct or to turn it into something unrecognizable.
I'd rather become a monster - except even that hasn't managed to stop them (see Chile).
Also, pretending that the Right has not shot itself in the foot, repeatedly, because the Right keeps trying to hold onto the past instead of shape the future, is dishonest. While the Right wanted to grill, the Left march through the institutions; while the Right focused on trying to 'balance the national budget' like it is a household (one of the stupidest bugaboo's of the Right), the Left realized they could weaponize the markets against the Right; while the Right kept acting like military intervention will solve most ills facing the US internationally, the Left pulled out their old Vietnam playbook.
In essence, the Right suffered the a lot of the same overconfidence and ego puffing the Russia military had going into Ukraine. It started it's fight with incomplete or inaccurate intel, doesn't adapt to new strategies very fast because it's stuck in a decade old paradigm it thinks it can keep acting is still real, and thinks that you can fight battle based on wished-for conditions, instead of existing conditions.
And that's not even counting the parts of the Right that are just controlled opposition or grifters looking to fleece the flock; money gathered in a political campaign and not used in it because the person lost can still be used by those politicians for..other things unrelated to politics.
So, basically, your idea of how to fight the Left is not only unrealistic, but relies on trying to get the Right to support strategies that already failed a long time back and that the Left has already figured out how to beat.
Right has lost in large part because Left advances and Right compromises. Today's conservatives are yesteryear's progressives. Punt today's rightists about a hundred years in the past, and they will be the worst of leftists by that time's standards.
The main problem is that the Right is merely focused on preserving what they know, on preserving their childhood memories, whereas
Left is focused on destroying the current society and making their ideals into childhood memories of the next generation. And this means that next generation of conservatives will be completely, utterly indistinguishable from today's progressives, while next generation of progressives will have been considered insane by most of today's progressives.
Look at what happened to previous generation of Wokeist, Leftist idols for a perfect illustration. J.K. Rowling? You know, that typical hypocritical foaming-at-the-mouth leftist author? Just recently, she got cancelled by new generation leftists because she is apparently fascist.
This generational mutation is how the Left wins. Conservatives, by their very nature, live in the present. They only react. As a result, they simply cannot oppose a movement - a cult - whose fundamental nature is constructed around forcing a permanent change, a march into oblivion.
You know the Tet offensive stalled and then got pushed back right?
It was a good surprise but still showed just how outmatched the NVA and the VC were against them.
Tet offensive was a success because it was a propaganda victory. Tactically, it basically destroyed the Viet Cong, but strategically, it ended any hope of United States winning the war.
