Assume you want power. You join a gang that is on its way up. The right is the party of “Don’t change stuff, people get hurt”, and the left is the party of “We want to turn society upside down”. So all the politically ambitious people are drawn to the left. Naturally the left will have a rather dreadful track record, and naturally the left will attract the ambitious and able power seekers. Any conspiracy seeking power will be a left wing conspiracy.

The left provides jobs for the boys, hence its tendency to regulate everything and forbid everything.

Suppose you want to build a house. You are going to have to prove that you are not disturbing ancient Native American artifacts, nor endangering the rare Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, nor draining land that is swampland once every thousand years. To prove that you are complying with each of these regulations, you need to hire a consultant, someone with a virtue degree, thus a left winger, someone with the right connections, who will issue a report that your house is not endangering the rare Preble’s meadow jumping mouse, and another consultant for another report that … Jobs for the boys.

The left is the political apparatus for turning political power into goodies, for transferring wealth from the diffuse interest – people in flyover country, rednecks, and so forth, to the concentrated interest. New goodies, means new rules, changes, hence leftism. Leftism is the position “More goodies for us”; Rightism is the position “No more goodies”; Reaction is the position “We plan to take away your goodies!” Naturally reaction is really unpopular.

It turned out that Preble’s meadow jumping mouse was rare because it never existed as a separate species. They were just regular meadow jumping mice who looked a bit different, like redheads are regular humans who look a bit different. But all the protections for it were still in place last time I heard. Millions of dollars are still spent every year protecting them, most of the expenditure being fees to people in the virtue industry.

I personally paid consultants a bit over ten thousand dollars for reports concerning a fallen down wall of loose stones probably made by native Hawaiians to keep their pigs out of their paw paws.

And that is why the left wins. What does “racist” mean? A racist is a low status person who is plotting to take away a high status person’s goodies.

How did the left come to have overwhelming economic, military, and propaganda powers while making horrible calls over the at least the last 60 years?