My argument is simply this: if you gatekeep everyone who isn't as fanatical as Perpetually Online reactionary NEETs, that's all your ideology will have as voters.
If you're arguing with perpetually online reactionary NEETS, why are you expecting a different kind of behavior?
If you want a more measured, reasonable discussion, go find the local chapter of Turning Point USA, or the Republican Party, etc, and talk with people IRL.
Some of us on this forum self-moderate, but others have embraced the black pill, their own spite, or any number of other things. It's an internet political forum; this is the kind of thing you get.
Electoral politics is a simple arithmetic. You need to win more votes than the enemy in every electoral division. Which you can't do if you've scared off all the normals.
Are you joking? Christianity was basically history's biggest master class in using syncretism and adapting beliefs to get more followers.
Not in the way you're talking about.
Catholics notoriously would make moves along the lines of: 'Ah, celebrating the solstice by worshipping pagan gods? No! Why don't you celebrate the Birth of Jesus instead? You want to put up a tree? Sure, fine, whatever, but you're
not worshipping Frigga, there is only one true God.
"And
the human sacrifices will stop."
Odd bits of culture
certainly are mutated semi-adopted remnants of old pagan practices, but for all its faults, the Catholic church was pretty consistent on, and inexorably pushed towards, maintaining the integrity of the core doctrines of Christianity.