Let the best ideas about LIFE win. This is my basic idea. Let them all compete openly, with no interference, and let those which work best to make people happy, harmonious and peaceful win out.
What we face at the moment, the grim reality, is that all the misanthropes and emotional dimwits who have occupied our universities and media cannot give up their delusions and illusions. They take from the idea of philosophy that there must be One Right Idea. They cannot let this go. This is the defining aspect of their claims to secular priesthood, and intellectual superiority. It is the root of their claims to status, which is to say social capital–social capital which exists mainly in their own minds, outside of the naked exercise of political power.
So by and by the sense of the One Idea–and it is a sense, not a thought–morphs into the sense of One Ring To Rule Them All, which is to say, the One Government, the One Party. It morphs into the Fasces, the many bound by force into one. It morphs into Fascism, in other words. It is the only way they can feel relevant.
Thus Antifa–which made sense in Hitler’s Germany, since his Brownshirts actually were beating up people in the street, as opposed to now, when no Trump supporters are beating up anyone else–makes logical sense as an answer to the question: how can we best prevent a rational examination of our own core claims, and own core beliefs, and their emotional underpinnings? Answer: by a radical demonizing of someone else, some other group, and by ginning up a false sense of urgency in response to a person who is completely innocent of all the charges made against him.
As long as Trump (and his supporters) are evil, in other words, the lives of these people have purpose and meaning and they don’t have to look too long or hard at their own past, or the true structure of their own worldview.
It is a psychopathology, a narcissistic mania, which would be quite impossible if our society demanded of them emotional and intellectual clarity, and pointed out their hypocrisies and manifest inconsistencies.