I am. And that was what I was questioning.Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:53 pmI am not concerned in what I write, or think about, or read, with what The Left thinks or how it frames those it opposes.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri Sep 22, 2023 2:41 pm No, my claim is that they have such limited range as to be nothing close to the "danger" that the Left would like us to believe they are. And you're pretty much making that obvious. You're having to work very, very hard at helping locate these "Dissidents," whereas I can rattle off dozens of major media outlets, government departments, academic departments, publishers, and so forth that are supporting the extreme Left.
That's precisely my point. The DR aren't even in the public eye. There's no way they're a "danger" to anybody, at least not on a level that would justify the kind of panic-and-hatred rhetoric that the Left is generating right now....the ideas of the Dissident Right are broadly excluded from the domains that you have listed.
The Left's real problem is the lack of a credible threat from the "Alt-Right." That's because the Left is effective only in opposition, and immediately terrible when they win and become the incumbent or status quo. They have no ideas, cannot build anything, have insane economic views...but whining and protesting is easy. So they constantly need something to protest -- and if there were a credible threat from some sizeable opposition, they would have the straw man they need to justify their own rhetoric.
But they don't have it. If the DR are even potentially a threat, they're not presently or actually one. So the Left finds itself in effective possession of the whole field of public opinion, but with no ideas of where to go from here. So they have to invent an enemy, in order to keep going.
But should we buy what they're trying to sell? It seems unreasonable to do so, unless they can show there's a credible threat from some substantial kind of ideologically unified and dangerous DR, something comparable to Socialism/Wokism/Leftism...which I don't think they can. The public is generally neither aware of, or interested in the activities of the putative DR. That much seems rather obvious, as much as it might gall the DR. They're not winning the PR war. They're not even really in the game. And that turns out to be a PR problem for both the DR and the Left, it seems.

