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Except that it has worked and continues to work for conservatives. They know incremental change is how you get your way. They've successfully been shifting this country to the right for a few decades now. Certain coast areas are very left, but they have established a core group of people who continually try to push left.
Little by little. A court victory here, a new law there. Trying to overthrow Row v Wade would never have gotten anywhere 10, 20 or even 30 years ago, but with an endless stream of lawsuits and attacks on the right to an abortion, they've essentially won. Similar deal with gun control. It's worse now than it was after that piece of shit Reagan got shot.
The left is so utterly disorganized and always jumping to the next big thing that will trigger them they can never accomplish anything. If the Left has the semblance of being able to focus on a goal, we would have universal healthcare by now. Or nationwide parental leave. Or a host of other things that are a common thing in Europe and elsewhere.
But we don't because liberals act like a new born puppy with ADHD that can't focus on a few key initiatives and continue to focus and hit on those topics for years - no, actually, decades - at a time to get them passed. Every few months it's the latest and greatest thing to get triggered over. Celebrities join in on the outrage. It makes its way through the media cycle and then we've moved onto some other great big travesty that liberals will solve. It's infuriating and exhausting because nothing gets done.
While on the other side of the aisle, conservatives all fall in-line and know they have to unite to slowly chip away at our freedoms, chip away at our voting rights, chip away at our way of life.