One of the saddest aspects of Britain’s election disaster was the horrible performance of UKIP, the party formerly led by Nigel Farage (and during the campaign by Paul Nuttall who has since resigned).
Although UKIP played a prominent role in the campaign leading up to the Brexit referendum last year, the party’s raison d’etat seems to have disappeared when voters backed Britain’s exit from the European Union. Or so many voters clearly felt.
UKIP Member of the European Parliament Bill Etheridge begs to differ, however. Writing for The Telegraph, Etheridge argues that UKIP lost because the party wasn’t radical enough. The only way to make a comeback, then, is by rediscovering and embracing their (former) radicalism:
“[T]he Ukip campaign and the entire election was a disaster and the manifesto was not one that I would vote for. Rather than continue to be a party offering alternatives, we tried to be like the establishment despite a clear warning from Nigel Farage not to abandon our core principles at the spring conference in Bolton.”
K-strategists are a combative lot, in search of a leader who will fan the flames of their aggression and dominance. K-strategists want the battle. When you want to lead K-strategists, your base is looking for a battle.
Since the rabbits are exhibiting psychologies which are essentially the Stockholm Syndrome, they will amp up their resistance to any opposition which appears weak and passive. However any resistance that is aggressive and dominant will provoke capitulation and demoralization. This is counter-intuitive to the rabbits, because it means the more offensive, aggressive, right-wing candidate will win what they think is a popularity contest. Politics is not a popularity contest to see who is best liked. It is a dominance contest, to see who will frighten the helpless rabbits into catatonia most effectively.
The problem is those in positions of political power are quickly rabbitized themselves. So you end up with a party of K-strategists, led by rabbits who are trying to understand and exploit the ideological landscape by projecting their pacifistic, socially-ingratiating rabbit-psychology on everyone. Theresa May genuinely believes her ideas on running the right are superior, even as she goes down to defeat.
With time, everyone will get K-ified to the point that even the right’s leaders will be K-strategists. Maybe Evopsych will even catch on and offer a blueprint to those who can’t grasp it themselves innately. But if not, no worries.
The world will drive everyone K soon enough.
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