You mention that the Spanish Left play to win while the Right appeals to principles. The Right can't seem to bring itself to grasp at power because it seems afraid to wield it and doesn't know or doesn't have a framework for what power is for.
How can the Right ever bring itself to a coherent view of the what the end use of power should b…
You mention that the Spanish Left play to win while the Right appeals to principles. The Right can't seem to bring itself to grasp at power because it seems afraid to wield it and doesn't know or doesn't have a framework for what power is for.
How can the Right ever bring itself to a coherent view of the what the end use of power should be? I thought some folks in VOX had one where it came to immigration - this equation doesn't seem that hard to me to solve. Is it because the Right lacks allies, or are they really just that clueless? Or do their cherished principles actually mean nothing and they're just full of crap?
Rod Dreher wrote a few years ago some reflections on how power was used under Franco and it seemed like a completely appropriate use of state power in that it seemed to make life better and happier for ordinary people on the streets. Now, if you were a leftist revolutionary, maybe you found yourself in a world of hurt. For ordinary people though, they enjoyed peace and quiet as they went about living, doing business, etc.
This then is to me the mission of the Right: To make the world better for the typical man, woman, and child. To restrain violence, maintain law and order, and to suppress the hotter passions of the day. Allow for liberal commerce at the local level and to ensure that national trade doesn't damage domestic concerns. To be watchful and careful stewards of the national purse.
You mention that the Spanish Left play to win while the Right appeals to principles. The Right can't seem to bring itself to grasp at power because it seems afraid to wield it and doesn't know or doesn't have a framework for what power is for.
How can the Right ever bring itself to a coherent view of the what the end use of power should be? I thought some folks in VOX had one where it came to immigration - this equation doesn't seem that hard to me to solve. Is it because the Right lacks allies, or are they really just that clueless? Or do their cherished principles actually mean nothing and they're just full of crap?
Rod Dreher wrote a few years ago some reflections on how power was used under Franco and it seemed like a completely appropriate use of state power in that it seemed to make life better and happier for ordinary people on the streets. Now, if you were a leftist revolutionary, maybe you found yourself in a world of hurt. For ordinary people though, they enjoyed peace and quiet as they went about living, doing business, etc.
This then is to me the mission of the Right: To make the world better for the typical man, woman, and child. To restrain violence, maintain law and order, and to suppress the hotter passions of the day. Allow for liberal commerce at the local level and to ensure that national trade doesn't damage domestic concerns. To be watchful and careful stewards of the national purse.
Why is this so hard in Spain, and elsewhere?
The mission of the real life Right is to contain and betray the people who trust them.
They are well paid to do so.
People might be mean to them on the internet if they do that. Say they're like Hitler!
Whereas when lefties do it everyone thinks they were only trying to help, just got a bit zealous about it, bless them.