Elections : Politics = Exams : Learning
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1. Elections are like exams
Right-wingers center all their politics around elections like a student who centers all her learning around final exams.
In reality elections are only a test of how good you have been at building institutional and cultural power.
People say that Democracy replaces (Civil) War. This is only partly true. In the sense of Sun Tzu’s “Every battle is won before the first arrow is even fired”, or Kautilya’s “The arrow shot by an archer may not kill a single man, but skillful intrigue devised by a brilliant man can kill him before he was even born” — the majority of warfare lies in the power-building and effort done before the bloody, violent warfare.
Democracy only replaces the latter iceberg-tip with elections; the former still remains the same, albeit with different incentives due to the different nature of the test at the end.
2. midwit human capital importance
Do not cope by thinking this is an insignificant demographic, btw.
That would be the same mistake US RWs made in the 70s+. Thinking purely in terms of numerical electoral coalitions, underestimating the importance of Midwit Human Capital and receding from the commanding heights.