Accountability is good for growth. If you can admit your mistakes, you can learn from them. It's step one to becoming a better person and expanding one's skills.
But the left is caught in an odd situation. They can't admit their faults. They can't grow. If they do, they would have to admit they're wrong about some things, and doing that could start a chain reaction that would end with the people who are currently in control suddenly finding themselves without it. They'd likely be phased out.
Wouldn't that be a swell day?
Not that this would happen anytime soon. People who crave power tend to gravitate toward the places where power can be attained, and the left's entire modus operandi is attaining, maintaining, and profiting from power. They don't ever want to say that out loud, but it's true.
This has a dual effect, and what's weird is that these effects are opposite of one another.
Firstly, the leftist who refuses to admit they did wrong or did poorly fails upward among other leftists. It's almost as if the reward isn't for simply being on the right side, it's being on the right side and refusing to make everyone else look bad by admitting fault. You have the right opinions and are willing to defend them, so you're in the club.
But the second issue is that despite all the back pats and job offers, the rest of the world isn't exactly pleased. Hollywood is a fantastic example of this. Many creators abuse and corrupt movies and franchises to turn them into message delivery systems, and despite often losing incredible amounts of money and ruining the brand for years and years, they continue to be pushed into productions. This only alienates the fans more, until finally they're left with almost nothing but debt and ire.
Yet they continue, unable to stop making mistakes, because they can't admit they made any.
So what do they do? How do they get around it?
Easy. Blame their enemies for their problems.
Case in point, here's the Mary Sue on why Doctor Who, the show that's been a part of British history for decades and was something of an internationally beloved franchise, suddenly found itself without an audience:
But the Disney+ era had been plagued with both right-wing backlash and the lowest-ever viewership numbers for the franchise, and Gatwa’s take on the Fifteenth Doctor was (in some fans’ eyes, unceremoniously) written out of the show after only two seasons. To make matters even more baffling, the Fifteenth Doctor then regenerated into a character played by Billie Piper, who has been a staple of the NuWho era for her role as companion-turned-love-interest Rose Tyler. At the time, it was never definitively clear whether or not Piper was even playing the Sixteenth Doctor: she’s not credited as such in the credits for the season finale, with the BBC saying in a press release that “just how and why she is back remains to be seen.”
What an interesting take.
The Mary Sue has to admit that Doctor Who is failing. The numbers are what they are, and they are there for everyone to see.
But what it can't do is say the writers, the BBC, and the ideology behind the turn were wrong. Making the Doctor into a gay black man is progressive! Visionary! Brave! Rewriting the character's origins and destroying decades' worth of lore is exactly the injection of freshness the franchise needed to stay relevant in the modern era!
The only people who could hate such a thing are those dastardly right-wingers and their ancient principles they got from a sky daddy they talk about in some musty old book filled with stolen stories and hate.
The thing is, they're lying to both you and themselves.
Was the right loud about it? Of course they were. They're the opposition.
But was it only the right?
Not even by a long shot, and they know it. The show lost an insane number of viewers over the last handful of seasons. Are they trying to say that the people who primarily watched Doctor Who were right-wing? I think the show appealed to far more people than that.
The truth is that most people aren't political despite having a side they prefer. In the real world, Democrats and Republicans can be best friends and get along famously while disagreeing politically. The internet made us forget that, ultimately, despite someone belonging to a party, they don't really consider it a large part of their identity. Like a person who was born and raised Catholic, calls themselves Catholic, but doesn't exactly practice.
The truth is, the show was so bad that even the normies left along with the fans. The people who aren't exactly nerdy about the program but still enjoyed it have abandoned ship once the rats took over.
But by blaming the right, they not only shift blame, but they also absolve themselves of any wrongdoing, despite the fact that all the doing was theirs.
As I said in the title, it's impressive how they've been able to do this for so long and have it actually work on people. The only issue is that it can only work for so long. If the normies are backing out, then the "It's all the right's fault" becomes a naked dodge of accountability. Also, there will be normies who don't take being called "right-wing" well. At least, not in the context the left means it.
