So another right winger died (Lindsey Graham), and while I wouldnt normally talk about it, since, my general view on these sorts of things is if I don't have anything nice to say, I shouldn't say anything at all, a lot of left wing content creators I follow are absolutely giddy at this guy dying. And...idk, it rubs me the wrong way.
I guess I understand it if the guy is REALLY REALLY bad. I know I was doing a victory lap when we killed Osama Bin Laden in 2011. But...other than that, I try to avoid doing that. It sets a bad precedent. While I might think a lot of right wingers are vile people, I generally want everyone to have a good life no matter how misguided they are. I might dislike or hate people, but I dont' generally actively wish harm on them. I guess it can be said some obituaries are read with great satisfaction, but I'm meh on graham. He was a right winger. He really liked war. he was anti gay rights, despite being in the closet himself, and I've found out WAAAAY too much about this man's sex life today. Like stuff I wish I can purge from my memory because oh god, why.
But yeah. To me, he was just a rank and file right winger. A typical conservative. Someone who pre trump hated him, but then got on board the trump train and sold his soul to the movement. His values were just that, typical right wing chrsitian values. His views on war were that of a typical neocon. Now, that doesn't make him a GOOD person, dont get me wrong. I mean, I pretty much view right wing ideology as evil, but again, it's just a very much standard and common evil in today's world. Part of my interest in politics is destroying Graham's ideology. But that doesnt mean I want him to die. Rather, I want him to change, or at least for those adherents to lose influence over time as millennials and zoomers start flexing their political muscles. I will celebrate a progressive victory way harder than I will a man's death, because that's the right way of doing things. Celebrating a guy's death feels icky to me. First of all, it's one of those things conservatives do. Conservatives have an ideology, and they want people who dont follow it to suffer. If anything that's the source of much of the evil that drives them. And when it seems like the left celebrates a guy dying, it's like they're doing the same thing. but I try to avoid thinking that these people deserve anything. They might be vile, but again, I want them to live well. I want them to stop rolling around in their own moral filth. The world sucks because of these people, but I genuinely want them to realize that, like I once did, and to change. Despite right wing ideology being evil and much of what's wrong with the world, most individual right wingers arent bad people, they're ignorant and misguided people. I dont want the world to burn, I want the world to learn. And one guy's death doesnt mean much if he's just gonna be replaced by someone just as bad.
Second, I don't like the weird virtue signalling the left is doing recently. We saw it recently with the other graham, graham platner. About how people are falling over themselves to point out that they always thought that something was fishy about the guy and they were the first to point it out and they were always on the "right side" of history. And as I said, I dont care. Im not interested in virtue. If anything, one thing that i value about the right politically,.which is why I've been using the rumors about mcconnell's death to make a point about the right and power, is that the right fights for their ideals. And they do so effectively. The left virtue signals, the right organizes, seizes power structures, and focuses on indoctrinating their views into the masses. That's why they're the dominant ideological force and the left isn't. They control the levers of power, they control the education system. They formulate policy in their image, and they indoctrinate the next generation with its ideas. They understand politics is a battle of ideas and they will fight to make sure theirs remain dominant. And that's the thing. The right is basically a handful of rich people who knows what they're doing is ####ed but they do it anyway to preserve their extreme wealth (the epstein class) followed by a bunch of useful idiots brainwashed into these ways of thinking by religion, the education system (or lack thereof), etc. And that's where I fight, I focus on ideas, I focus on attacking the core values, and the structures that keep us brainwashed. As an ex right winger, I want right wing ideas to die, but that doesnt mean I want right wingers themselves to die. As an ex right winger, I want them to learn like I did.
But the left...well....they're just interested in weird public displays of morality, virtue signalling, and believing that those who dont share their virtues deserve to suffer. Which doesnt make them much better than the right. It just makes them look like out of touch self righteous A-hats to be honest. No one actually likes these people. The game amongst themselves is weird virtue signalling and having to be more moral than each other, or to all be in the same clique hugboxing about how morally superior they are while doing F all to advance the causes in the real world.
Again, the right siezes power. They aim for the power structures, they aim for the centers of propaganda. They're focused on enforcing and reinforcing a political ideology, and making it self replicating like a mind virus. Graham is just one guy in this whole system. And he comes off to be as a true believer. Maybe one who is closeted, but let me say something about that. Religion makes it where those urges seem like "sin". So rather than approach the situation for what it is, these guys remain closeted, fighting that "lifestyle" as they call it publicly, but engaging in it privately because hey guess what, they actually have those urges, and doesnt have a proper worldview for handle that properly. The worldview pathologizes that stuff, it makes them live unhealthily as a result, but rather than abandon the worldview, they maintain the beliefs, leading to this conflict. it's not as hypocritical as the left wants it to be. Graham probably genuinely believed that stuff was sinful. But he also recognized that he was a sinner himself. Just the nature of christian self loathing. That mind virus does that.
Again, I try to be charitable to the people to some degree, while recognizing that what's evil is the ideology. And the ideology didnt start with people like lindsey graham. He's just a believer in it, just like the rest of them. A lot of people on the right genuinely believe in what they're fighting for. And while yes, what they're fighting for is complete and utter crap, they dont know better. I would know, I was one of them, I was in that mindset at one time. People like LIndsey graham arent evil as much as they're horribly ignorant. And it's the IDEAS that should be condemned as evil, not the people.
So...RIP Lindsey Graham. Hope you're having some freaky you know what in heaven if that exists. You know you want to, and God, to my knowledge, doesn't actually care. I guess your life review was kinda crap but eh....that's gonna happen. But hey, you didnt know on earth. So you couldn't have known better, right? I guess that's what life here is, a learning experience. So...learn from it and move on I guess.
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