On Libertarians, Trads and other Ideological Hardliners ⭐

(i.e. to make people more receptive to free-market policies)

This is not just about economic education (although it is a part of it). People need stories, media, art depicting capitalists as heroes and geniuses. There’s a reason Ayn Rand sells and your chutiya podcasts don’t.

I want to see libertarians make a “The Men who Built America” type show about Adani-Ambani. Instead we have a libertarian party that sues Adani because the Biden administration told them to.

Often it’s not even about making your own art and movies but building an “Infrastructure of Reception”—interpreting existing art that has right-wing themes into your ideological framework and using it to push your ideology. Think KGF (yes seriously).

Something I have said before:

A big problem with RW propaganda is it only fights at the superficial level—valorizing one-off leaders or events—rather than trying to make fundamental cultural changes (promoting capitalism, Hindu sovereignty etc).

At least, your biopics should emphasize the character’s RW ideas, rather than promoting him by relying on promoting how much jai-kisān Modi is or how Shivaji was fair toward Muslims.

(Outside of election contexts) promoting the clip of Modi saying “I feel pride when our businesses succeed” or Ajit Doval saying “as far as I’m concerned the entire country is right-wing” is infinitely more effective than appealing to existing left-wing or normie memes.

Investigate what the most significant obstacles are to free market reforms, e.g. material obstacles like people don’t want creative destruction in their occupation, as well as institutional obstacles like tough unions etc.

For material obstacles, figure out what compromises can be reached (e.g. “just pay off the taxi drivers with the surplus generated”). For institutional obstacles, figure out how those people can be made unpopular and weakened (go back to: cultural change).

Figure out what are the main constituencies for socialist policies (apart from the overwhelming global force of Left-liberalism), and what compromises can be reached.

Prioritize. Focus on policies that have the most impact (are most valuable economically), rather than going with whatever has “wind” or whatever scratches your itch.

I don’t mean issues that are politically impossible to touch, like reservations. Stop trying to bully the govt on that, they’re trying their best.

I mean issues that are neglected out of lack of information or genuine oversight. A glaring one is urban governance: FSI/FAR regulations, rent controls, all sorts of building code regulations, and the overall shitty state of our cities.

But the fact that BJP leadership has its heart in the right place means you should direct your advocacy to BJP leadership, in good faith. If instead you are posting to an audience for clout “look what BJP didn’t do”, that is bhōsaḍpilling.

Do not see yourself as a customer. See yourself as a party worker, whose job is to convey important information to the BJP leadership, convince them on things you think they’re genuinely wrong on/neglecting.

> Observation: RWs primarily see themselves as “customers” to be pleased by their party, while leftists see themselves as “party workers”. > > Leftists instead see “disadvantaged groups” etc. as the customers. > > This is the cause of a lot of b**sadpilling and uselessness from RWs.

This is for a broader question of “What should Right-wingers do?” that I will write about at some point.

But the basic point is: getting your ideology pushed doesn’t only depend on pushing your ideology … it also depends on getting power for your group, which is right-wingers.

And very often, the means to get power may be neither libertarian nor trad.

This is the fundamental reason I do not use labels like “libertarian” or “trad” to describe myself: ideology is not orthogonal to execution … and if you let “principles” restrain your pursuit of power, you will lose.

In large part this is why Classical Liberalism lost to Left-liberalism in the West. Classical Liberalism suffered from Yudhiṣṭhira syndrome, restraining itself out of “principles”, even as its enemy showed no such principles.

Again, the world is populated by intelligent beings trying to maximize their goals. If you let go of any opportunity for power out of “principle”, someone else will seize it and use it against you.

The path to power may involve authoritarian policies, it may involve libertarian policies. It may involve compromise, it may involve making alliances with people not totally in alignment with you. It may involve RETVRNing to tradition, or it may involve adapting to modernity.

The path to power may be hard to stomach for an ideologue. But flinch from it, and you will lose.

If you restrain yourselves from purging your enemies’ “free speech” when necessary, you will lose.

If you restrain yourself from getting filmmakers to fall in line with your ideology, you will lose.

If you restrain yourself from rewarding those who support you, you will lose.

If you restrain yourself from curbing the demographics of those who want to kill you, you will lose.

NOTHING is possible without power, and nothing is worse than losing.

Maybe you want to keep your hands clean. That’s fine. But at least be thankful to the goy who presses the lift buttons for you. At least be thankful to the Bhīma who strikes Duryodhana in the thigh and takes the bad karma for you. Learn to stay silent when we do the dirty work for you.

Win first. We can change the game once we win it.

I think it is a great tragedy that nearly every “ideologically hardline right-winger” ends up bhōsaḍpilling.

Clarity of vision, having a positive vision is important. Having “good cops (moderates) and bad cops (ideologues)” is important. And this is why I will always extend a hand to those with principled ideology; you are needed in the Right Wing.

Just stop doing useless things, and start doing useful things. Understand that BJP/Sangh is literally the only political institution in India (meme ones aside) that we can even say has its heart in the right place. Distrust anyone who does not pledge absolute loyalty to it.