Your original claim was that the left “is actually dominant in society”. Not “trying to be”, but “is”. I interpret this to mean that they are currently, at this time, the mainstream political, societal, and cultural force that dominates the nation, to such an extent that there are vanishingly few spaces in which they do not have a stranglehold on, to the point that such spaces can be handwaved away as outliers. So yes, I do think that “we haven’t marched upon and conquered everything in the world yet!” is proof of the opposite, and I do think that “well but they aren’t omnipotent yet” is a valid defense. It’s worded in the most hyperbolic and aggressively bad faith tone possible, but I mean, it directly refutes what you are trying to claim, so I don’t know how you can say those things as if they’re ridiculous statements. If there exists a non-insignificant number of spaces in which the conservative viewpoint is the norm rather than the progressive one, and if there are a significant number of people in power who lean conservative, then the left is not, in fact, the dominating force in society - at least, not to the degree that you seem to claim that they are. And we know that this is the case because the government is, at the moment, skewed conservative. Actually, we don’t even have to rely on that; basic knowledge about the political system of the United States tells us this. “Republicans exist in the US and there are a lot of them” feels like a very obvious statement to me, and like, they’re not all spread out in such a way that they all find themselves in the minority position. There are states, cities, towns, friend groups, social circles, internet communities, etc. in which conservatism rather than progressivism is the norm, and in which left-leaning opinions are shamed and shunned rather than right-leaning ones. I realize that it sounds like I’m just making a bunch of trivially true statements, but in order for your original claim to be true, you would have to deny these statements. Now, you can make the argument that the left is trying to become the dominating force in society, which is what you seem to also be doing, but that is a separate argument, and you can’t act as if those are the same arguments.
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