bachewychomp posted...
I think the right falling in line and the left eating itself is an inevitable problem just by the very nature of those ideologies. The right is more about maintaining hierarchies and treating their authority figures as "correct" simply by virtue of having that power. They're always gonna get lots of their base voting for them no matter what they do because they want to feel like they're in that in-group.
Meanwhile the left is looking for actual change/progress and you have Democrats with messaging that amounts to "it's time to return to business as usual" wondering why they lose so much. They spend their time and energy trying to appease moderate right-wing voters while actively sabotaging and spitting on the left in America.
It also doesn't help that progressivism is inherently always going to be less unified than conservativism. There are countless ways to try to make things better, with advantages and disadvantages and side effects and varying effectivenesses and all sorts of things that people who agree on the basic principle of "we should make things better" can argue eternally about. There's exactly one way to keep everything the same. The only argument there is whether or not keeping things the same is a good idea.
Now, when you start to bring regressivism into the picture, that advantage gets a little slimmer, but even then moving things backwards is still already defined and all you have to do is make a case for the past state being better. That's a lot less open-ended than introducing a new state and making a case for it being better.