Why Matt Walsh will NEVER defeat the woke left
Everything that Matt Walsh has wrong, and why he'll take the entire conservative movement down with him.
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To understand why the political left always seems to win, while the political right always seems to be on the back foot no matter how many crazy things the left does, you must understand the difference between how the right and the left fight.
The left focuses on implementing laws and policies that formalize their crazy ideas in institutions. They do this, mostly, without the political right knowing what’s going on until the law or policy is already adopted and formalized.
The right reacts to whatever the left does, and attempts to make the left look as crazy as possible to own the libs. The right believes that, in owning the libs, they will appeal to independents and centrists.
The right, however, does not do anything to undo the policies the left implemented. With rare exceptions, the policies remain and continue to be implemented because the same people who implemented the policies largely remain in control of the institutions.
This pattern repeats itself over and over and over again, with the left gaining more power over the institutions each time because (mostly) the right’s tactics are not effective in reversing the policies the left implemented.
I say mostly because the right does get wins here and there, but oftentimes even their wins don’t go far enough to undo the damage the left already did by formalizing their positions into policies in the first place.
The reason it works out this way is that the left and the right have fundamentally different values.
The left values power.
The right values image and brand.
The left worship activists, people who are implementing the laws and policies that make change.
The right worships people who say the words they want them to say to maintain the image.
The left is proactive. They are constantly working, strategizing, and planning on how to move the needle towards their goals (which are established and understood), even if they only move the needle an inch.
The right is reactive. They don’t have a forward-looking plan or vision. The GOP party platform hasn’t been updated in over ten years. Their only talking point is “we’re not Democrats.”
Is it all starting to make sense?
The problem with being a reactive force that values owning the libs above all else is that you’re not actually solving the problems the libs are causing.
The libs don’t care how they look as long as you’re implementing their policies.
And here’s where Matt Walsh comes in.
Matt Walsh is undoubtedly the conservative darling. Matt says all the right words that conservatives love to hear, he has a pretty blonde wife that stays home and raises the kids, he claims to be religious, oozing Christ’s beautiful, perfect love every time he calls Dylan Mulvaney an ugly man. He produced and starred in a documentary that expertly owned the libs. He is everything we can expect from the perfect conservative.
Because of all those things, Matt Walsh is leading conservatives right off a cliff. And they don’t even realize it.
Let me show you how this plays out in reality.
Today Matt Walsh tweeted the following:
And Matt’s audience rejoiced!!!!! Matt said the magic words!!!! They are WINNING!!!!!
Except that Matt is lying about that. Allow me to explain why by breaking down this tweet.
Grab yourself a beverage and a snack, I’m about to debunk all of it with receipts.
Matt says: “Social conservatism is ascendant.”
Reality: While it is true that more Americans consider themselves to be socially conservative today than a year ago, the total percentage of Americans who consider themselves to be socially conservative is still less than 40%, far below what is required to win elections. And most of the increase has come from people who are already Republican.
So, people already voting Republican anyway are becoming more socially conservative…but less than 30% of independents are socially conservative, and less than 10% of Democrats.
That means that exactly no votes have been changed in this shift towards social conservatism because the majority of the people who have become more socially conservative were already voting Republican anyway.
Matt is not being honest with his audience about that.
Matt says: “Brands that push the LGBT agenda are suffering massive losses”
Reality: Indeed, TWO brands pushing the queer activist agenda (it’s not accurate to say the LGBT agenda because the agenda is coming from the far-left queer activists, not regular LGBT people) have suffered massive losses: Bud Light and Target (though I suspect Target will ultimately rebound when pride month is over).
However, let’s take a look at the organizations funding our favorite youth indoctrination provider, GLSEN:
My point is this: There is no backlash against the majority of these brands. There’s still millions of dollars flowing from their profits into afterschool programs that are training your children to be the next generation of queer activists.
The difference between Bud Light and Target is that the conservative influencers decided that those would be the organizations targeted (no pun intended) with their outrage campaign, not because it would solve the problem, but because they would get the most clicks on their content from targeting them.
Matt is not being honest with his audience about that.
Matt says: “Many states have passed laws banning the mutilation of kids. Gender clinics are being shut down.”
Reality: It is true that SOME states have passed laws banning trans medical intervention in minors. This, indeed, is a wonderful outcome. It is also true that some gender clinics are shutting down (although they tend to re-open later when the media commotion has died down).
However, again Matt fails to tell his audience the bigger picture (likely because he himself does not understand the bigger picture).
So, we need to back up to really understand what the right is up against:
The TLDR is this: Trans medicalization of minors is a SYMPTOM of the problem. It is not the root cause of the problem. The bills and the closure of the clinics solve for an OUTCOME of the problem…but they do not solve the problem itself.
On several occasions, I’ve explained that one of the ultimate goals of queer activism is to destabilize the system by disrupting the norm…and one of the norms they wish to disrupt more than any other is the gender binary.
The woke left literally wants to abolish gender, and create a world full of they/thems.
Guess what: Being non-binary doesn’t require medicalization. It simply requires declaring that you’re non-binary. In fact, many queer activists don’t use “trans” to mean transition anymore.
They use it to mean transform.
Why are there so many non-binary people all of a sudden? Because being non-binary was always the goal, a political act asserting a complete and total rejection of (what they consider to be) the social construct of gender:
We know what they want to do. They are overt about it. They say the quiet part out loud all the time.
They don’t want to transition gender. They want to transform it.
Sometimes, they even use the word “transcend,” which is more on the nose.
Getting people to transition from men to women or women to men does neither of these things. But it does make them think about their gender as fluid and a social construct. That’s the critical piece - the rejection of biological gender and the gender binary.
They were never after the bodies of your kids. They were always after their minds. If they got their bodies too, that’s a bonus…but it wasn’t the primary goal.
The question we must ask is this: HOW they are going to do it?
How will they transition all of society from believing that men and women are a biological reality to a world in which everyone believes that an infinite number of genders exists and that our identification with those genders changes all the time?
They’re going to do it the way they do everything: Through policy.
For example, what happens when the place that kids spend the most time in doesn’t use gendered language?
As of the writing of this article, there are over 17,000 schools that have official policies on their books openly stating that the school can hide the gender status of children from their parents and caregivers. These policies are in over 1000 school districts and impact over 10,000,000 students.
When precisely does the conservative right plan to start getting rid of these policies?
They’re using the policies within the schools to capture the minds of the students, to influence them to see themselves as non-binary, genderqueer, gender fluid, etc.
Surgery is not required.
Capturing the minds of the youth is how you capture society and irrevocably destabilize the system.
Matt says “Look!!! They can’t define what a woman is!!!!”
Their not being able to define what a woman is IS THE POINT. And what’s more, none of them care that they can’t define it. They don’t believe the definition has any value, so why would it happen?
And when those kids grow up, the laws banning the surgery piece will eventually be overturned as well, just because they can.
It is very true that saving some kids from surgery when they are minors is a big win, and one that must be acknowledged. But becoming complacent and ignoring the bigger picture will only result in more suffering later.
Matt is not being honest with his audience about that. And the most likely reason why Matt is not being honest with his audience is because he doesn’t understand any of what I just explained to you.
Matt says: “High schools kids are pushing back against Pride indoctrination in their schools”
Reality: It is true that a group of middle school students in Burlington, Massachusetts disrupted a pride month event at their school.
It is also true that the entire community is about to come down on those kids to send the message that it will never be tolerated again.
It is highly unlikely that what these kids did is going to be the start of any sort of movement that will spread across the 17,000+ schools nationwide that have official policies saying the school can secretly transition kids without telling the parents.
And even if it did start a movement, the policies capturing the kid’s minds would still remain.
Matt is not being honest with his audience about that.
Matt says: “We are gaining ground. We are starting to win.”
Reality: No, you’re not.
And I know it doesn't feel good to have this news delivered to you, I really get it. Trust me, it doesn’t feel good for me to be able to clearly see all the ways in which conservative influencers are lying to their audiences for money. But when you focus on tactics that don’t actually solve for the problem, there is no hope of winning.
That’s reality. This is like if you fixed a broken window and expected it to unclog your sink - you fixed something, but you did not fix the correct problem.
Not only is Matt not being honest with his audience about this, but his words asserting they are actually winning will do nothing but make his audience more complacent.
Matt’s audience doesn’t know where this problem is coming from.
Matt’s audience doesn’t understand the left or what their real goals are.
Matt’s audience doesn’t understand the massive advantage the left has over them.
Matt’s audience actually believes they’re winning.
And the left is laughing, grateful to Matt for snowing his own audience for clicks and money.
Matt Walsh and people like his cohorts at The Daily Wire have convinced people that the woke left gets their way by protesting and posting cringe Tik Tok videos.
All of that is a distraction, one they all fell for.
The woke left wins because they quietly implement policies that are rarely repealed that force people to move in the direction they want them to go. They don’t make a big show of it. Usually, you don’t even know they’re doing it until it’s already done.
The political right is distracted by the magician’s assistant who is twirling around the stage in a sparkly, low cut dress, while the magician is on the other side of the stage performing the magic trick while no one is watching.
In this case, the woke left is the cagey magician and Matt Walsh is the magician’s assistant.
The left loves Matt Walsh.
The left NEEDS Matt Walsh.
Because Matt Walsh is accomplishing something the left can’t do without people like him - completely distracting their political enemies from the most important things the left is doing to maintain their power and stranglehold over our society.
Matt Walsh is quite literally the woke left’s favorite useful idiot, the pied piper of conservatives, leading them all off a cliff.
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I agree with you. Matt did not change any laws. Other people do. He reports on single topics which I don't think he truly understands. He does not go any deeper. You gave done more. Hours and hours we watch your streams. I am better for watching so I can understand more and in depth. I am able to explain points to others without overwhelming them. I appreciate you and all you do! ♥️
Don't both right and left need each other? They define themselves by their enemies. There are those, like you, who actually want to address and solve the problems. When you point out to conservatives what they're doing wrong, they blast you because you expose their game., that they DON'T want to solve the problems, but rather, to exploit them. (If the problem was solved, they would be deprived of an enemy--much like the woke left. For instance, same-sex marriage is approved, so the Human Rights Campaign changes focus on trans issues and activists warn of a "trans genocide," because if they solve the problem, they can't fundraise, they can't continue their activism, etc., so even where a problem doesn't exist, they must manufacture one--or exaggerate one where it does exist.)
Walsh is only playing to his side; not only will be not gain any converts, but he will push those who genuinely care about these issues and oppose the destructiveness of wokeness away from social conservativism (and maybe conservatism altogether). It's about grifting and opportunism for Walsh and his ilk. This is different from Tucker Carlson, who I think believes most of what he says (and is on fire in his last 3 Twitter eps). Of course, when a conservative tells the truth, as when a leftist or a centrist or anyone tells the truth, there will be angry backlash from those with vested interests. Carlson crossed Big Pharma and the military industrial complex. After his 1st Twitter ep, where he mentioned 9/11, I discovered he'd mentioned the pecularities regarding Building 7 (not on his show, but it doesn't matter. Any hints of trutherism is still enough to get you crucified, even though Tucker never said anything like, "Bush and Cheney did 9/11!" as far as I've found. lol.)
Lots of people salivate at the prospect of "the entire conservative movement" or "the entire left" going down. In 2017 Dennis Prager called "the left" a "cancer" to be eliminated, or something like that. When people talk like that, they are only going to generate hate, and defiance--not only against the immediate targets (the left, or as I call it, regarding retard Prager, "Teh Left") but those who are genuinely independent thinkers who hate being forced into neat little boxes. People will always call you a fascist, or a Communist, or a racist, or some stupid shit when they don't like something you say, but it's largely a function of our current political culture, that people are more interested in trying to delegitimizing the messenger than confronting the content of the message.
Which takes me back to Walsh, and the extreme irony of those who call you a "cult leader" (lol). They are the ones who create cults of personality and take the focus off the issue and onto themselves, and sabotage the movement that purport to represent. But they don't care if they burn the movement to the ground, so long as they are getting their $ and clout.