Expanding on Morpheus’s point, so long as blue pill “allies” remain blue-pilled, they will always be controlled and, hence, they will always be a controlled opposition.
Controlled oppositions are a prickly thing to discuss because, by necessity, they must touch where it hurts.
Establishment Republicans are the principle controlled opposition identified in Re-Remembering the Mis-Remembered Left.
Applying The Matrix logic to Republicans as if they were in the matrix, is as simple as this: So long as they are in the matrix, they will obey it, and they will enforce it.
—From a political warfare perspective, it’s just as simple. If political correctness is the enforcement mechanism to postmodern narratives that execute neo-Marxist objectives, when establishment Republicans conform to those narratives, they will execute neo-Marxist objectives. As blue pill people, their subjective awareness of what they do will hardly matter. They will do what the pseudoreality demands.
—After all, if establishment Republicans were in the matrix, you wouldn’t be surprised that the Senate leadership refused to go into recess so the president could not even make recess appointments, would you?
—But, you protest, that would be tantamount to saying that Republican leaders are more comfortable with Obama appointees running the government apparatus. You would cry that this amounts, at the very least, to a de facto alliance against the president and the people who elected him (their own base). Yes! Where does that leave things? The president’s “say-do” loop still does not extend much further than the four corners of the oval office. Can’t blame the Democrats for that.
—But it doesn’t end there. So long as, for example, the Freedom Caucus remains blue pilled and subordinated to its establishment leaders, they participate in the destruction of their own policies.
—How is that you ask? The Left operates dialectically. If you are in a pseudoreality, you are in a dialectical process that leads to your negation. That’s the point of it all. A political warfare assessment of the Left that fails to account for its dialectical nature is not an analysis of the Left. (“But Schteeeve, we don’t have time to understand the dialectic, what we really need to know is why we keep losing ground even when we win elections!”) The very act of conforming policies to pass postmodern scrutiny conditions it for dialectical negation.
—A blue pill-staffed Freedom Caucus identifies bona fide issues that mobilize its base to victory. Establishment Republicans co-opt those issues and ride them to victory with no intention of passing them. This is a negation. It’s also a process that keeps repeating. It demoralizes the base. On the other hand, Freedom Caucus members who take the red pill stand the real risk of being banished. A Freedom Caucus that is not red pilled is not a freedom caucus.
—The entire Republican narrative remains a sustained self-negation. “We primary populist conservatives, but we move to the middle to win elections” means they never intended to represent the issues that made them candidates.
—A cursory political warfare analysis suggests that this is because party leaders accept the premise that scientific socialism is indeed inevitable; that the pseudoreality already has them double-timing to the march of history. So long as they are blue-pilled, it will not matter how loudly they protest.
—Both examples reflect forms of intra-party self-negation that Republicans impose on themselves in obedience to the narratives they obey. These are not the negations that will destroy America. They are the negations that make America too weak to fight back when events escalate.
—As blue pill players, they fear and loathe their red pill base because, while they don’t understand what real is, they know they are not. Trump irretrievably exposed this. That’s why they hate him.
From a blue pill perspective, this all seems so mystifying.
From a red pill perspective, it’s a straight forward clean call:
When blue pill “allies” advance your causes, they negate them. It’s what they do! And it’s not “complicated.”
The Left is signaling a major escalation this year. Political correctness is transitioning to its weaponized form: hate speech. This, in advance of disenfranchising Americans from their own institutions. Blue pill “allies” will fall in line. “Warning on Racism” explains this.
If The Matrix’s red pill / blue pill analogy holds up, what does it tell us?
It warns that the most powerful allies must take the red-pill; but, that they are the greatest threats if they don’t.
It also tells us that political warfare is a red pill tool that cannot be grasped by blue pill players. It is neither a one-off nor an extension of blue pill constructs, and cannot be learned by osmosis.
As such, political warfare analysis is a break from, not an extension of, the conventional ways in which the left is discussed and analyzed.
Recognizing that political science is fundamentally a blue pill construct, red pill analyses should be undertaken with an eye towards the adage:
“The academic way of understanding a thing is antithetical to the strategic or operational way of understanding the same thing.”
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PART ONE: The Matrix Explains Political Warfare Realities PART 1 – The Red Pill as a Pseudoreality
PART TWO: The Matrix Explains Political Warfare Realities Part 2 – Blue Pill People are Never on Your Team
