DMK and cynicism

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DMK is CCP-lite. Commie origins, but pivoted to RW economics out of pragmatism and belief in economic growth. Nationalism for their tribe’s culture, but cynically promote leftism (both economic & social) for others. Will probably be bitten by the snake they’re feeding.

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DMK practices the sort of cynical self-interest/realism that normies attribute to everyone, e.g.

• “Amrīkā is capitalist but uses leftist NGOs to stop our growth!”
• “Jews support open borders in America but not in Israel!”
• “Indian-Americans run DEI depts in US but are casteists at home!”

but is in reality very rare these days:

• those leftist NGOs are not “secretly agents of colonialism/Xtian nationalists”, they’re also very active in America and have done a great deal of damage there
• left-wing American Jews also have stupid multicultural fantasies about Israel and are quite deracinated on this
• woke Indian-Americans are also woke about Indian politics

DMK is like the clearest exception to this I can think of. Maybe China practised a similar cynicism in the few decades prior though they’ve increasingly started to buy into their own subversive memes – maybe Muslims to an extent but they have much less self-awareness about this and they’ve been very clumsy about it.

What DMK has done for “their tribe” (i.e. non-Brahmin Tamils) – not just on economics but also on culture & history – is basically what we want on a national scale for all Hindus of all castes and regions.

You will never get this from them, mind you, because they don’t care about you.

This is honestly a hard concept to grasp because we’re so used to assuming a “humanistic” background morality where we assume everyone cares about everyone and are just misguided by ideology … nah, these guys aren’t misguided by ideology. Our conflict with them is a conflict of interests, not ideology.