What ".wins" are the beta test for the new republic?
?? Theory ??
I have this odd feeling with the developments of the past few weeks (admin/mod roguishness, faith based arguments, etc) that the ".wins" are a beta test for the new republic. Patriots represent the new liberals and Great Awakening as the new conservatives. (And now America.win featuring Adam Crigler... new Libertarians?) You never want to transition to a monolith so it only makes sense to have (at a bare minimum) a dichotomous system. It had to be this way.
I've had similar thoughts anon, just with the traffic we've seen moving to .win communities from FB, TW, Parler, Reddit, Voat, etc - and even the exodus of folks we've had come here from P.W/TD.W - it becomes plain to see and is understandable that people prefer to communicate using platforms whose values reflect their own.
Beta test? Nah, not formally at least. Any group of people inevitably end up shaking out in fairly predictable ways. We have thousands of years of data to look at, no need to model it and gather "new" data.
I suppose beta test is a bit of a misnomer. I think it's a way of realigning the political compass in America.
Compasses are rather amazing things. When left alone they tend to align themselves without any required jiggering of the system. The compass of a ship may point at the bow, when the ship turns some landlubber will say, "oh look now it's pointing to the side". The old salt says, "No laddie, it's pointing at the north pole, it's the ship what's changed." If you tie yourself to a party instead of morality, ethics, honesty, and all that is good and godly, you will get lost. That is what happened to America. It is not the compass that needs realignment, it is the people.
Do you know anything about planetary polar flips? You would have to rebuild a compass if the north pole is now at the south.
Fine, if you wish to be pedantic. No actually you wouldn't would you? You just put the bit of glowy paint on the other end.
Well if it was a 1:1 polar flip yes, but that's not how magnetic field work. There is nuance. America is exceptional so it's not going to be a binary kind of thing. That's why a "3rd party" option has been becoming more mainstream.
I believe in the political Re-Alignment, The conservative party of the now is either not what i grew up or the Democrats used to be more clever in their deceptive editing and portrayals to convince me of extreme prejudice. It's probably somewhere in between those two things.
At the same time, some close friends think i have changed to be more conservative and i mulled that over a long time before realizing my principles haven't really changed whatsoever, i have just tried to be more pragmatic about them and it's them i see drifting off and taken in by the media narratives.
Regardless, if we are in a "Great Awakening" right now and people are just waking up for the first time who knows where people will land in even just a couple years from now, might be too soon to really know if these are new trends forming on our part or if were just reacting admist the fog in a world where we now know we can't trust our elections.
Love the idea and this seems to have become a trend. Patriots for the win!!! This is the NEW domain for the NEW republic!! While ".com" represents the old America the COMpany!