Republican Collectivism Follow Up

In my previous video “Republican Collectivism is different from Democrat Collectivism” I made three basic points. First, Democrats make collective judgments based on A, B, and C. Second, Republicans make collective judgments based on D, E, and F. Third, Democrats refuse to believe that anyone has different standards than they do and insist Republicans secretly believe A, B, and C and only use D, E, and F as cover.

I got reactions in my comments (and also my like-dislike ratio) essentially saying that I’m wrong and that Republicans do actually use A, B, and C, just like Democrats do, but don’t admit it.

To those telling me that I’m wrong, thank you for showing that I am right.

On an internet forum one time I was challenged to say something negative about the party and candidates I support. This was in response to trying to get major party supporters to do the same about their own candidates. I think I disappointed the person who gave me the challenge because I responded with my opinion about the last several Libertarian Party candidates for President, when he was hoping I’d talk about the Republican Party. He was forced to concede that I had followed through on his request though.

So I pointed out that in my opinion, the Barr/Root ticket was the worst we had ever run. I also stated that I wasn’t thrilled with the two times Gary Johnson ran. The most controversial part of my post was when I wrote that Jo Jorgensen and Spike Cohen were (to that point) the most successful campaign the Libertarian Party had run in many years.

One of the other forum participants was flummoxed by the idea that I would call the Jorgensen campaign successful, because she didn’t win, and only a winning campaign could be called successful.

My reply was simple. I said “Since everyone judges by the exact same standards you do, then of course it wasn’t successful. Oh, but I called it successful. Maybe I’m using different standards.”

Even after that he still couldn’t wrap his head around the idea that I would call her campaign successful, because in his mind there is only one standard. He insists that a successful campaign is one that wins, and that everyone agrees with his definition of a successful campaign.

He couldn’t believe that other people judge things differently from how he does. This guy isn’t stupid, but he does hold a position that I think is stupid. I quickly realized there was no way I could ever convince him that I held a different standard and dropped the discussion with him.

In the comments to my previous video, we see people who cannot understand that there are people who hold different standards than they do. They came in to my comments to tell me that I’m wrong, that the Republicans really do judge by standards A, B, and C.

The reason Republicans do indeed judge by standards A, B, and C? Because the people telling me that I’m wrong judge by A, B, and C, and therefore everyone else does as well.

When I point out that they generally judge by D, E, an F, they did exactly what I described before, and insisted those were just cover stories to prevent people from knowing that the evil Republicans are evil for judging by A, B, and C, just like those making the comments do.

It seems a bit of a farce.

Okay, so the standard in particular that I said Democrats use and Republicans don’t use is race. Of course not all Democrats do this, but a lot of the rhetoric put out by those who are arguing on behalf of the party or the ideals is very racially focused. The so-called Progressive Stack makes a big deal about race. Also sex, gender, orientation, and to a certain extent religion.

I pointed out that Republicans generally prefer to use citizen versus legal alien versus illegal alien, and also law abiding versus criminal.

At the start of this video, I said my third point in the previous video was that Democrats refuse to believe that anyone has different standards than they do and insist Republicans secretly believe A, B, and C and only use D, E, and F as cover. So to tie it together, Democrats say “Republicans secretly make it about race just like we do, but they use law abiding versus criminal as a cover, and they use citizen versus legal alien versus illegal alien as a cover.”

I had people coming in to the comments to say “Republicans do so make it about race, just using the other stuff as a cover.”

So, to those angry commenters, thank you for proving my point. You are living demonstrations of everything I was talking about.

To everyone else who can understand the concept of “they judge by a different standard than I do,” let us all point and laugh at those commenters. They are so sadly desperate for attention anyway.