Partisan Politics Distorts Political Discourse
Partisanship Controls the Mere Discourse Framework of Every Political Issue
The harm of partisan politics isn’t just that you can’t critisize one side without being accused of shilling for another one. What’s worse, partisan politics dictates the mere framework of those criticisms. That is, you can critisize Republicans and Trump only from DemoNratic talking points, and vice versa. Taking into account that DemoNratic talking points of last four years were downright psychotic (Trump Hitler, MAGA Nazi, trans people are being genocided, etc.), all their TDS afflicted criticisms of Trump are invalid and fake.
That’s actually a more serious problem than it seems - because it leaves Trump without any actual, fact-based critics (for example, for his Projects Warp Speed and now Stargate). But I mean, who would be doing the criticisms? Republicans won’t critisize Trump exactly because of partisan politics. And the side which must criticize him - DemoNrats - had completely lost their minds and can’t produce any valid and factual critics, only unhinged ‘Hitler Nazis’ psychosis. And independent voices are drowned into the sea of partisan ones. But it’s a very serious problem when there’s absolutely no constructive fact-based critics of the current President of United States but only praise or psychotic hate.
This problem goes beyond American politics into international one. For example, it became next to impossible in the mainstream to criticize Putin from different from NATO point of view, and not because of Ukraine. I faced it myself - every time I condemn Putin as a traitor to Russia and a WEF agent, from Russian patriotic viewpoint actually, I get accused of being a ‘NATO shill’. Classic. NATO talking points and Ukraine dominate any mainstream discourse on Russia and Putin leaving out all the shit Putin is doing in Russia - from his tyranny and political prosecutions and downright murder of his opponents (from Navalny to Prigozhin) to Putin implementing all the globalist shit in Russia (AI, mRNA, digital IDs and digital ruble, mass Muslim immigration, etc.) But all this is just ignored in Western mainstream political discourse on Putin and Russia, being overshadowed by Ukraine and NATO. Colossal amounts of information ate completely left out and only tiny piece - Ukraine - is being discussed. That’s again a very, very serious problem, much more serious than many people realize.
We need to understand that discourse pushed by any side (including criticisms of the other side) is largely controlled by the establishment and elite. But since it’s next to impossible to create an independent discourse and to make criticisms of the other side outside of your own side framework, it is also impossible to make any meaningful and factual criticisms of the other side and indeed to maintain any political discourse independent of the elite and establishment talking points.
How to break free from this partisan framework which dictates our political discourse on every political issue both domestic and international and which prevents us from factual criticisms of any side by replacing them with false ones, up to downright psychotic ones like in case of DemoNratic talking points? First of all, we need to break our minds free from this toxic partisan tribalist thinking, and to open them to objective analysis and factual criticisms instead. Then, we need to simply mainstream our views via Substack, podcasts and other alternative and independent media, thus undermining mainstream partisan framework and replacing it with factual one.
But the first step is to free our mind from partisan worldview. If you want to get an objective information and comprehensive view of the situation, you need to abandon this toxic tribalist thinking for good, stop taking sides and be willing to listen to factual critics from any side, and to look at the situation neutrally, without taking any sides as well. Then you would be able to finally see what was hidden by partisan propaganda from you, for example Projects Stargate or Warp Speed, or Putin-WEF ties all the way since 1992 up to now.
Thank you for long and thoughtful reply! Agree with everything but dragons lol - I love them and don't consider to be 'monsters to fight' but I got the sentiment behind the saying and agree with it too.
Yeah I also was cancelled already back in 2017 when my Master's thesis was headed with 2 because I dared to raise the forbidden issue of Islam here... Back then I was very angry and traumatized but now I also consider it a bliss. If not for this politically motivated grading which barred me from PhD academic career, I might have ended up in academy during COVID and BLM nsanity actually, and that would have sucked indeed. Instead, my cancelation set me on my way to awakening and an independent political blogging which I'm grateful for.
But my article isn't about peril of giving in to our anger so it's a valid point too. I rather meant that we need to break free from partisan tribalist thinking altogether and see the bigger picture instead.
One thing Conservatives, Classic Liberals and Libertarians must avoid is sinking to the moral level of the progressives in being vindictive, hateful and too intent on “owning” our adversaries. Indignation and anger due to personal insult and injury (including being canceled, losing livelihood, vocation and sense of personal dignity) is a natural human reaction and who if us have not been angered by their antics in the last eight years? But the progressives have made a virtue out of feeding their senses of anger and indignation and seeking pretexts to vent that accumulating anger on anyone whom they view as their opponents (which include not only conservatives but moderate liberals who don’t swallow the whole woke whale.) People who are on the conservative side generally believe in the religious precepts of not holding unto anger and view wrath as a serious sin: “be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your wrath” in Ephesians 4:26 and in numerous passages in the Proverbs.) But even agnostic or atheist conservatives believe in holding fast to the Stoic ethical precepts of maintaining self-control even in the face of being insulted and moderation in one’s emotional life. The progressives by contrast despise all Western traditional values and think that cultivating extreme rage somehow “proves” the authenticity of their views. Even physiological and psychological science shows that cultivating perpetual rage is harmful to one’s physical and mental health. My fear is that in the euphoria of triumphalism we may descend to their level of vindictiveness and vile behavior. Not that we should not investigate and punish blatant crimes that they have commited but we should do so with justice and integrity.
I myself have suffered cancellation and loss of my livelihood by having my tenure as a professor revoked on specious and dishonest grounds. I would advise any young conservatives considering a career in academic other than the STEM disciplines or business administration to look elsewhere for a vocation: all of these left-wing academic institutions are doomed to implode both for demographic and practical reasons. Yet I came to view my cancellation as a hidden gift from God: I was delivered from an increasing toxic working environment and got out before the madness of Spike Covidianism, CRT, mandatory preferred pronouns, and DEI mandates hit academic with hurricane force. In retrospect I now see that my treacherous colleagues have had to suffer all this that they brought upon their own heads. So I am not speaking down to anyone from a moral high horse. I too have suffered from cancellation. But the worst thing that could happen to me would have been to let anger and bitterness consume me. As Friedrich Nietzsche said: “He who fights dragons perpetually is in danger of becoming a dragon.” Let our humanity and moral integrity continue against any temptation to become vindictive ourselves.